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Third World military spending has increased more than fivefold since 1960 , rising much faster than the military budgets of industrial countries . It dropped from a peak of $ 173 billion in 1987 to $ 146 billion in 1989 , but even at ...
Third World military spending has increased more than fivefold since 1960 , rising much faster than the military budgets of industrial countries . It dropped from a peak of $ 173 billion in 1987 to $ 146 billion in 1989 , but even at ...
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Correspondingly , success in advancing development in poor countries will be of critical significance for the pursuit of ... The overwhelming majority of today's developing countries were once colonies of one or another of the European ...
Correspondingly , success in advancing development in poor countries will be of critical significance for the pursuit of ... The overwhelming majority of today's developing countries were once colonies of one or another of the European ...
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Two oil - exporting developing countries , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia , have also for many years provided more than 0.7 percent of their GNP in development aid . For the poorest and most vulnerable countries , development assistance will ...
Two oil - exporting developing countries , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia , have also for many years provided more than 0.7 percent of their GNP in development aid . For the poorest and most vulnerable countries , development assistance will ...
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| Title | Our Country, the Planet: Forging a Partnership for Survival |
| Author | S. S. Ramphal |
| Publisher | Lime Tree, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0413455815, 9780413455819 |
| Length | 291 pages |
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