Countries with high forest cover can be expected to be at early stages of the FT. GDP per capita captures the stage in a country ’ s economic development, which is linked to the pattern of natural resource use, including forests.

However, this power can be lost under certain circumstances: some Countries have been forced to disarm by other Countries, upon losing a war, or by having arms embargos or sanctions placed on them.

Countries contribute money to a pool through a quota system from which countries with payment imbalances can borrow funds temporarily.

Countries are increasingly recognizing how severely IC / PBS can affect patients ' lives, by officially recognizing that it can completely impair functioning.

Countries can vary the shape of their stamps to indicate the length of stay, like Singapore where a perfectly rectangular stamp indicates a 14-day stay, rounded rectangular a 30-day stay, or hexagonal a 90-day stay.

The further history of the Low Countries can be seen as a continual struggle between these two powers.

The Book of the Laws of the Countries is the oldest general discussion of mankind in the Aramaic language, dating from the late second to early third century AD ; and we can see that ברנשא bar nasha is used in a general form for humanity.

Countries where all the members of the Big Five can be found include Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The area is host to the Countries largest concentration of Menonites ( Amish ) and can be seen walking around the festival in their 18th century homemade dresses, bonnets and boots, the men are easily recognised by their black trousers and suspenders ( think: Little House on the Prairie ).

Pop music includes American, Caribbean ( reggae, calypso, chutney, Soca, Bollywood film songs, local Guyanese soca-chutney recently borrowed sounds from Neighbouring Countries Brazilian Music as well as Spanish Merengue, Bachata, Salsa, Reggaeton, and Samba this type of sound can be heard throughout Various Clubs and Facilities Throughout the country / Capital Georgetown.

Countries who wish to participate in the IChO must send observers to two consecutive olympiads before their students can participate in the event.

If the Commissioners bring peace it is the happiest thing that can be ; but if they come without it, look for great matters to ensue presently upon it ; for the charge is so great that the King is at, both in Spain and here, in the Low Countries, that is cannot continue long, if he had five times the treasure he hath ... I protest before God, and as my soul shall answer for it, that I think there were never in any place in the world worthier ships than these are, for so many.

It can be thought of as an extension of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries ( HIPC ) initiative.

Countries that operate public health-care systems are often so taxed that it can take considerable time to get non-urgent medical care.

Of Restraints upon the Importation: Chapter 2's full title is " Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of such Goods as can be Produced at Home ".

In the Low Countries a continuous tradition of grisaille paintings can be traced from Early Netherlandish painting to Martin Heemskerck, Pieter Brueghel the Elder ( Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery ) and Hendrik Goltzius, and through the copious output of Adriaen van de Venne, to the circle of Rembrandt, and Jan van Goyen.

During the national tobacco litigation, a memo from Philip Morris executive Frank Gomez revealed that Ridenour ( under her maiden name of Amy Moritz ) had offered " to use any information we can provide re the current anti-tobacco onslaught ..." Ridenour wrote many op-eds attacking the filing of lawsuits by state attorneys general against tobacco firms and on tobacco policies, such as " Ironies of the Tobacco Wars ," " Federal Tobacco Lawsuit Could Pave Way for Litigation Tax on Other Industries ," " Latin America Go Home: Tobacco Policies in Foreign Countries Should Be Made by Foreign Countries, Not in U. S. Courts " and " Lawyers ' Fees in Tobacco Case Should Be Capped.

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers ( PRSPs ) are documents required by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank before a country can be considered for debt relief within the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries ( HIPC ) initiative.

Particular parallels can be seen in the Middle Ages and Renaissance city-states of the Low Countries ( modern Holland and Belgium ), the cantons of Switzerland and the city-states of Northern Italy.

Countries can freely decide where to liberalize on a sector-by-sector basis, including which specific mode of supply they want to cover for a given sector.

Countries can manipulate the worth of their currency by restricting or expanding the amount of ' float ' available to trade.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Countries participating in the SAP have been offered the possibility to become, once they fulfill the necessary conditions, member states of the EU.

Countries that have ratified the Charter, and languages for which the ratification was made:

Countries below have officially listed Hezbollah in at least some part as a terrorist organization.

Some micro-nationalists call their countries Nomadic Countries, especially ones that have no land and are based on the Internet.

Countries that have signed, but not yet ratified: Poland

Countries usually have different styles of stamps for entries and exits, to make it easier to identify the movements of people.

Countries that have adopted rugby union as their de facto national sport include Fiji, Georgia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga and Wales.

Countries such as Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa have produced numerous professional world champions such as Dick Tiger, Hogan Bassey, Samuel Peter, Azumah Nelson and Jake Matlala.

Today there are movements supporting the independence of the Catalan Countries in both Spain and France, but they only have significant support in Catalonia.

Over the last few decades, the term ' Third World ' has been used interchangeably with the Global South and Developing Countries to describe poorer countries that have struggled to attain steady economic development.

Countries that have signed, but not yet ratified-( 6 ) Canada, European Union, Greece, Portugal, Ukraine, United States

Countries opposed to whaling have passed non-binding resolutions in the IWC urging Japan to stop the program.

Countries with conservative attitudes towards sex education ( including the UK and the U. S .) have a higher incidence of STIs and teenage pregnancy.

Countries party to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic have uniform rules about overtaking and lane designation.

Countries outside of Europe were by default allocated to the Trans-Atlantic zone but could choose to have their messages stored in the European zone.

Countries that do not have national systems include Ireland and Panama.

Countries, for example India, which " were far behind in the population-food game that there is no hope that our food aid will see them through to self-sufficiency " would have their food aid eliminated.

Countries that have acceded to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness will grant nationality to otherwise stateless persons who were born on their territory, or on a ship or plane flagged by that country.

Countries that sign the convention are required to adopt national laws, and remove old ones, so that persons with disabilities will, for example, have equal rights to education, employment, and cultural life ; to the right to own and inherit property ; to not be discriminated against in marriage, etc.

Countries like Argentina that have abundant beef resources see a structural underpricing in the Big Mac.

The shield had six sections, each representing " the Countries from which these States have been peopled " ( England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, and Holland ), surrounded by the initials of all thirteen states.