Countries scoring high on assertiveness consider PA to be a way of assuring equity among employees so that higher performing employees receive greater rewards or higher salaries.

Countries with low levels of teenagers giving birth accept sexual relationships among teenagers and provide comprehensive and balanced information about sexuality.

List of countries by Human Development Index | Countries coloured green exhibit high human development, those coloured yellow / orange exhibit medium human development, and those coloured red exhibit low human development.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

Countries like Russia and China had already delivered a small quantity of military equipment some years earlier, but gained on importance during the past few years.

It was announced on 24 January 2006 that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao would visit Fiji that April to open the China-Pacific Islands Countries Economic Development & Cooperation Forum Ministerial Conference 2006 at Sofitel Fiji Resort in Nadi, a conference of economic and trade ministers from Pacific island countries.

In 2004 the Right to Food Guidelines are adopted, offering guidance to states on how to implement their obligations on the right to food .< ref > Olivier de Schutter ( 2010 ) " Countries tackling hunger with a right to food approach.

* Nordgren, I .: The Well Spring of the Goths: About the Gothic peoples in the Nordic Countries and on the Continent ( 2004 ).

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.

The Bourbons of France held a strong claim to Luxembourg, the Emperor of Austria on the other hand had controlled the duchy until the revolutionary forces had joined it to the French republic ( he reportedly was not enthusiastic about regaining Luxembourg and the Low Countries, being more interested in the Balkans ).

Countries are forced to follow suit, on this view, because should they not foreign investment will dry up, move places with lower " burdens " and leave more people jobless and poor.

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

Countries with a coastline on the Persian Gulf are ( clockwise, from the north ): Iran, Oman ( exclave of Musandam ), United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar on a peninsula off the Saudi coast, Bahrain on an island, Kuwait and Iraq in the northwest.

Under the IMF's Highly Indebted Poor Countries debt relief program, Senegal will benefit from eradication of two-thirds of its bilateral, multilateral, and private sector debt, contingent on the completion of privatization program proposed by the government and approved by the IMF.

With an external debt of U. S .$ 2, 495 million, and with its economic reform program on track, Senegal qualified for the multilateral debt relief initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries ( HIPC ).

According to Jan Michiel Otto, Professor of Law and Governance in Developing Countries at Leiden University, " Anthropological research shows that people in local communities often do not distinguish clearly whether and to what extent their norms and practices are based on local tradition, tribal custom, or religion.

On 14 December, 1960, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514 ( XV ) under titled Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples provided for the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples in providing an inevitable legal linkage between self-determination and its goal of decolonisation, and a postulated new international law-based right of freedom also in economic self-determination.

" Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples "

Countries that use variations on the theme of the Westminster system include the following:

Maximilian's wife had inherited the vast Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her father's death in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477.

From early on, the Low Countries began to develop as a commercial and manufacturing center.

In Dutch, a distinction still exists between on the one hand ' de Nederlanden ' ( plural, the Low Countries ) and ' Nederland ' ( singular, the present-day state of the Netherlands ) that is a consequence of this separation in the 17th century.

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

Countries with higher prevailing wage levels, such as France, Germany, Italy and the UK are net recipients of immigration from lower-wage member countries such as Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Romania.

Countries which have a higher degree of elderly people seems to be able to maintain democracy, when it has evolved once, according to a thesis brought forward by Richard P. Concotta in this article in Foreign Policy.

Countries were classified with World Bank criteria as low-income ( Nigeria ), lower middle-income ( China, Columbia, South Africa, Ukraine ), higher middle-income ( Lebanon, Mexico ), and high-income.

Countries in East Asia, Africa, and Europe deprive women of access to higher income and important capabilities.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

Countries that maintain ambassador-level relations with Burma.

* The " British Committee for Relations with Other Countries ", which will become the British Council, is set up to foster cultural relations.

Countries that maintain diplomatic relations with the Republic of China, especially the ROC's older diplomatic affiliates, also refer to the ROC as " China " on occasion ; for example, during the funeral of Pope John Paul II, the President of the Republic of China Chen Shui-bian was seated as part of the French alphabetical seating arrangement between Marisa Letícia, the first lady of Brazil, and the president of Cameroon as the head of state of " Chine ".

Lady Nicholson was also a member of the subcommittee on Human Rights, the Delegation for relations with Iran and the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq Countries.

Countries such as the United States answer queries over the recognition of governments with the statement: " The question of recognition does not arise: we are conducting our relations with the new government.

Countries of the world indicating decade diplomatic relations commenced with the PRC: 1949 / 1950s ( dark red ), 1960s ( red ), 1970s ( orange ), 1980s ( beige ) and 1990s / 2000s ( yellow ).

The Korean Friendship Association ( Spanish: Asociación Coreana de Amistad ), headed by Spanish citizen Alejandro Cao de Benos de Les y Pérez, is an organization working with the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( North Korea ), as well as an organ of promotion / public relations for the Juche movement.

Countries with good relations will generally have the checkpoints a bit off the technical border line to allow tourists to walk around border marker monuments without getting in the way of immigration authorities.

FEFU is a national leader in developing relations with Pacific Rim Countries, a major bridge between Russian education and worldwide university society.

* Cheick Sidi Diarra, United Nations Special Adviser on Africa and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States ( OSAA / OHRLLS ), Master's degree in international public law and international relations.

The IMU's members are Member Countries and each Member country is represented through an Adhering Organization, which may be its principal academy, a mathematical society, its research council or some other institution or association of institutions, or an appropriate agency of its government.

Countries may ratify the main treaty without necessarily ratifying these optional agreements.

Later Cimmerian remnant groups may have spread as far as to the Nordic Countries and the Rhine River.

Countries with complex regional electorates may elect a head of state by means of an electoral college rather than a direct popular election.

Countries may have paintball sports guidelines, with rules on specific safety and insurance standards, and paid staff ( including referees ) who must ensure players are instructed in proper play to ensure participants ' safety.

Countries may " graduate " out of the LDC classification when indicators exceed these criteria.

Countries may also issue re-entry permits that allow temporarily leaving the country without invalidating the visa.

Countries that are members of regional organizations or party to regional agreements may however issue visas valid for entry into some or all of the member states of the organization or agreement:

Countries which do not have formal identity documents may require informal documents.

Countries that do not comply may face sanctions.

In short, while it may have lagged slightly behind the Low Countries, and possibly Switzerland, in per capita wealth, the sheer size of the French economy made it the premier economic power of continental Europe.

Countries such as Mexico may adopt the NFPA standard as their national electrical code, with local amendments similar to those in United States jurisdictions.

Countries may allow for extraterritorial jurisdiction in competition cases based on so-called effects doctrine.

Countries in Oceania may have a Pacific coast anywhere, including their entire border

The Cornfield and the Travellers are characterized by Duplessis as prints of a high order which may be regarded as the most significant expressions of landscape art in the Low Countries.

Countries that do not target a specific exchange rate are said to have a floating exchange rate, and allow the market to set the exchange rate ; for countries with floating exchange rates, other instruments of monetary policy are generally preferred and they may limit the type and amount of foreign exchange interventions.

In the UK, many Commonwealth Countries and some non-English-speaking countries, the word " jack " may refer to the plug on the end of a removable cable.

Countries which seek to join the European Union in the future may hold a referendum as part of the accession process.

Countries where the CPD may be used include: Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d ' Ivoire, Congo, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

Countries which fail to enact these programs may be subject to severe fiscal discipline.

Countries with multiple languages and multiple scripts may need to write the material multiple times.

There is no direct evidence linking Darwin to Benjamin Franklin's treatise " Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc .." However, Franklin was a friend and colleague of both Erasmus and Robert Darwin, and it has been suggested that this work may have influenced Darwin's study of Malthus ' belief on the relationship between population and subsistence.

Countries that operate large SIFE programmes may host a series of regional competitions to narrow down the number of teams eligible to compete at their national competition.

The influence of the Low Countries may be discerned in the music of Oliver.