A report by Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, notes that " millions of farmers are losing their livelihoods in the developing countries, but small farmers in the northern countries are also suffering " and concludes that " the current inequities of the global trading system are being perpetuated rather than resolved under the WTO, given the unequal balance of power between member countries.

Critics of this type of argument have tended to point out that this is just a standard criticism of representative democracy — a democratically elected government will not always act in the direction of greatest current public support — and that, therefore, there is no inconsistency in the leaders ' positions given that these countries are parliamentary democracies.

This explains why current studies are focused on illnesses commonly found in developed countries, where more people can afford to pay for treatment.

* List of countries by current account balance

The current world rankings show England in top place for association croquet, followed by Australia and New Zealand sharing second place, with the United States in fourth position ; the same four countries appear in the top six of the golf croquet league table, below Egypt in top position, and with South Africa at number five.

The current definition, sometimes known as the metric carat, was adopted in 1907 at the Fourth General Conference on Weights and Measures, and soon afterward in many countries around the world.

The current trade between Afghanistan and other countries is at US $ 5 billion a year.

A Test match is a first-class match played between two ICC full member countries subject to their current status at the ICC and the application of ICC conditions when the match is played.

Increasing capacity building for plant breeding in developing countries is critical for the achievement of meaningful results in poverty and hunger reduction and to reverse the current worrisome trends.

A map showing current federalist countries in green.

Folk dances sometimes evolved long before current political boundaries, so that certain dances are shared by several countries.

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840.

With the current length of waterways, Indonesia ranked seven on the countries with longest waterways.

The current IRC, available since 1 July 2009, is called the " Nairobi " model, and is available from post offices in more than 70 countries.

IRCs purchased in foreign countries could be used in United States toward the purchase of postage stamps and embossed stamped envelopes at the current one-ounce First Class International rate ($ 1. 05 USD as of April 2012 ) per coupon.

Some observers still feel that Japan's willingness to deploy troops in support of current US operations in Iraq, as spearheaded by Koizumi and the conservative LDP, reflects a vow not to be excluded from the group of countries the US considers friends.

The current President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, has voiced displeasure of Caribbean and other Commonwealth countries continuing to rely on the British JCPC.

Its relations with Western countries are generally friendly, although current political and economic instabilities are often blamed on Western activities ( e. g. colonialism, paternalistic engagement and post-colonial resource exploitation ).

Morocco's current relations with some countries are related to its colonial history.

The bulk of current production is from China, whose government has recently imposed strategic materials controls on the element, raising some concerns in consuming countries.

Includes current chapters of 15 countries:

The current Syrian government is – and the former government of Iraq was – led by rival factions of the Ba ’ ath Party, which continues to espouse pan-Arabism and is organized in several other countries.

The current usage of republic in Muslim countries is borrowed from the western meaning, adopted into the language in the late 19th century.

* Infante Juan Carlos Teresa Silvestre Alfonso of Spain ( 1913 – 1993 ), named heir to the throne and Count of Barcelona, whose son is the current King, Juan Carlos I of Spain.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the East electrode ' ( other candidates had been " eastode ", " oriode " and " anatolode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

The Lower Houses were built in 1931 and were originally intended to house theology students at Emmanuel College, whose current building was opened the same year.

It is defined as a vector whose magnitude is the electric current per cross-sectional area.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the West electrode ' ( other candidates had been " westode ", " occiode " and " dysiode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

The current official position of the party is that the " Republic of China ( Taiwan )" is an independent and sovereign country whose territory consists of Taiwan and its surrounding smaller islands and whose sovereignty derives only from the ROC citizens living in Taiwan ( similar philosophy of self-determination ), based on the " Resolution on Taiwan's Future " in 1999.

In the electromagnetic cgs system, electric current is a fundamental quantity defined via Ampère's law and takes the permeability as a dimensionless quantity ( relative permeability ) whose value in a vacuum is unity.

The current design envisions a core market of frequent regional business travellers whose time savings make using the StrongMobile virtually revenue neutral.

Gro Harlem Brundtland is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an International network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development.

An electrical insulator is a material whose internal electric charges do not flow freely, and which therefore does not conduct an electric current, under the influence of an electric field.

An electromagnet is a type of magnet whose magnetism is produced by the flow of electric current.

The Great Mosque of Xi ' an, whose current building dates from the 18th century, does not replicate many of the features often associated with traditional mosques.

The current High Commissioner is South African lawyer Navanethem Pillay, whose four-year term began on 1 September 2008.

* The statement, which is used to import modules whose functions or variables can be used in the current program.

The commander is General Abdoulaye Fall ( a different person from the current Armed Forces Chief of Staff of the same name ), whose rank is Divisional General, and whose full job title is " High Commander of the Gendarmerie and Director of Military Justice ".

In June 1870, Laura Curtis Bullard, a Brooklyn-based writer whose parents became wealthy from selling a popular morphine-containing patent medicine called " Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup ", bought the rights to The Revolution for one dollar, with Anthony assuming its $ 10, 000 debt, an amount equal to $ in current value.

Another important sub-class consists of algorithms for exploring the game tree of multiple-player games, such as chess or backgammon, whose nodes consist of all possible game situations that could result from the current situation.

However, Conroy Maddox, one of the first British Surrealists whose work in this genre dated from 1935, remained within the movement, and organized an exhibition of current Surrealist work in 1978 in response to an earlier show which infuriated him because it did not properly represent Surrealism.

Halonen is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an International network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development.

Many designs used such a screen grid as an additional anode to provide feedback for the oscillator function, whose current was added to that of the incoming radio frequency signal.

The Lower Houses were built in 1931 and were originally intended to house theology students at Emmanuel College, whose current building was opened the same year.

Attempts at revolt, such as that of Ambiorix in 54 BC, had secured only local support, but Vercingetorix, whose father, Celtillus, had been put to death by his own countrymen for seeking to rule all of Gaul, managed to unify the Gallic tribes against the Romans and adopted more current styles of warfare.