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While these economies have experienced “convergence” towards the living standards of developed countries, many other countries have fallen further behind.

A focus on institutions and governance does not mean convergence on Western institutions.

Now more than ever, the parties need to take steps towards each other, and not unilateral steps that change the situation on the ground and prejudice the final parameters for a settlement.

[...] [...] arrangements of the United Nations [...] [...]

[...] group trends were also converging [...]

Several speakers emphasized that, for the previous three decades, LDCs had worked with a model of development that failed to achieve their income convergence with both developed and other developing countries, and had been unable to prevent the number of poor people in LDCs from increasing to 421 million — twice as many as in 1980.

At the same time, while quite a few developing countries (mostly in Asia) have experienced a significant “convergence” towards the living standards of the now advanced countries, others, especially in Africa, have fallen farther behind (figure O.1).

In order to ensure that the Conference will be attended by all States of the region and to maximize prospects for a successful Conference, further progress and a convergence of views on these issues must be achieved.

The challenge of a 10-year framework of programmes is to ensure a quick transition to sustainable consumption and production patterns to remain within the carrying capacities of ecosystems while ensuring upward convergence in standards of living within and between countries.

This approach means starting with establishing channels of communication with the influential and patriotic representatives of a given society plagued by terrorism with a view to gaining them to our side by offering them appropriate incentives and to convincing them to try to move from the extreme and periphery to the middle ground.

In north-eastern Somalia, pirate leaders have compromised State institutions at both the local and central levels by co-opting and corrupting government officials.

Gastech Exhibition 2014 will feature 9 focus areas within the natural gas industry to bring professionals working within the supply chain in these sectors closer together.

[...] [...] with high quality and reliable access to two-thirds [...]

[...] [...] obligation cannot be measured reliably.

A lack of transparency in that respect might (a) undermine trust and political support for individual public authorities and Government and State institutions in general, thus endangering the efficacy of public interventions and risking political instability; (b) provoke significant redistributions of wealth in ways that not only are unfair and, in some cases, possibly illegal, but also favour rent-seeking behaviour, act against fair competition and provide the wrong incentives for efficiency, innovation and competitiveness in general; and (c) prolong outdated practices and political institutions, including co-optation, corruption and the capture of public policies by specific industries or groups, delaying the modernization of State institutions and impeding overall economic, social and political development over the longer term.

The legislative/governing bodies of the United Nations system organizations should condemn and prohibit unethical practices such as promises, favours, invitations, gifts, etc., provided by candidates for the post of executive head or their supporting governments during the selection/election campaign, in return for favourable votes for certain candidates.

In 2007, it was upgraded several times to integrate the billing of private data line services, support Olympic rate card, CP/SP settlement, SAI (Service Account Integration System), case preference, network-wide upgrade and integrated billing. Consequently, it can implement a cross-region and multi-product marketing strategy and support complex service processes.

Nevertheless, the mission ascertained that recently public funds were invested in private haciendas in Alto Parapetí; so that the hacienda owners have allowed benefits for co-opted Guaraníes who are loyal to the owner,4 while Guaraníes who fight for their rights have received nothing.

[...] [...] become a systematic and reliable mechanism at the district [...]

[...] [...] view to generating reliable and policyrelevant data.

When the fair value of unlisted equity securities cannot be reliably measured because (a) the variability in the range of reasonable fair value estimates is significant for that investment or (b) the probabilities of the various estimates within the range cannot be reasonably assessed and used in estimating fair value, such securities are stated at cost less any impairment losses.