NIC's are concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region and include South Korea and Singapore. ... NIC's such as East Asia and the Pacific region averaged a 7.5% growth in 1990-2001, despite severe recessions in the area, as globalisation has meant that the economic growth of these economies has soared in the past few decades. ... The fact is if Africa, East Asia, South Asia and Latin America were to increase their share of world exports by 1c, the gains would lift 128 million people out of poverty. ... However, foreign aid has decreased as a result predominantly in African nation...

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South Africa has stated they feel the United States is putting itself in a very uneasy situation by attempting to take the law into its own hands. ... The general feeling in the Middle East and Islamic world is that it would be very difficult to maintain close allies with the United States, even in the war against terrorism, if they decided to strike on their own. ...

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One cannot help but feel fortunate to live in a country such as Canada; its richness and prosperity go relatively unequaled in the world. Canadians, to an extent, have lived a life of sheltered ignorance when compared to the lives experienced by those in other nations. The problems that the greater part of the world faces daily, and expects in the future, are inconceivable to those in wealthy nations. World peace through international government and law is an ancient idea that has mightily fastened itself on the minds of people throughout the ages. Never before, however, has the human race b...

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It's a fact that since the Gulf war in the early 1990s, over $60,000,000,000 dollars worth of arms and ammunition have been sent by the United States to the Middle-East and central Asia. The USA has maintained their military presence in Asia and the East for decades as if it was their own land to do what they want with. ... Was the United States not the last to impose sanctions when hundreds of thousands were dying in South Africa because of apartheid? ...

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And although starting from a relatively small base, South-South trade (between developing countries) is expanding at an even faster rate than that of world trade overall. ... • Despite increasing South-South trade, the large developed economies – and especially the United States - remain the major market for world exports. ... In all years since 2001, for example, the share of growth in world merchandise trade held by East and South Asia has outpaced that of all other developing countries combined, and a similar proportion prevails in trade of services. ... Thirty-one out of 45 sub...

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