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  • Shah believes "that if we're not building real incentives into the system to transition to make our projects more sustainable, to work through host-country systems and ministries or local institutions, you know, we're not going to have viable, long-term sustainability strategies."

    New administrator wants to change the way USAID works Walter Pincus 2011

  • Last year, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange began obliging new applicant mineral companies to disclose payments to host-country governments, and the International Accounting Standards Board is considering making such reporting standard.

    Sen. Dick Lugar: Libya: The Resource Curse Strikes Again Sen. Dick Lugar 2011

  • "Climate change changes everything for developing countries," said N.J. Mxakato-Diseko, the South African representative to the COP17 talks and a key figure in driving the fund-raising effort for the green fund as part of the host-country delegation.

    Climate Talks Open Amid Funding Spat Devon Maylie 2011

  • If there's something unsafe you can't swim in that water, said Mike Fennell, president of the U. K.-based Commonwealth Games Federation, which oversees host-country arrangements.

    Games Officials Hunt for Spectators, Microbes Amol Sharma 2010

  • The long-running Publish What You Pay campaign, supported by a coalition of civil society groups worldwide, argues that if the scale of the payouts to host-country governments were revealed, voters would hold their leaders to account.

    Britain backs 'publish what you pay' rule for oil and mining firms in Africa 2011

  • The quandary of how to counter sectarian violence -- possibly the biggest enemy to social and economic progress anywhere in the world -- while dutifully handing over security to a host-country's own forces is well-nigh insoluble.

    David Tereshchuk: Post-war Withdrawal Quandaries Challenge Media Analysis David Tereshchuk 2011

  • The quandary of how to counter sectarian violence -- possibly the biggest enemy to social and economic progress anywhere in the world -- while dutifully handing over security to a host-country's own forces is well-nigh insoluble.

    David Tereshchuk: Post-war Withdrawal Quandaries Challenge Media Analysis David Tereshchuk 2011

  • To be sure, there have only been a handful of host-country Grand Slam champions in recent decades.

    Deep Field Looks to Start With Major Win Gillian Tan 2012

  • The quandary of how to counter sectarian violence -- possibly the biggest enemy to social and economic progress anywhere in the world -- while dutifully handing over security to a host-country's own forces is well-nigh insoluble.

    David Tereshchuk: Post-war Withdrawal Quandaries Challenge Media Analysis David Tereshchuk 2011

  • A Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said the Hanoi government is looking into the matter, while adding that foreign diplomats have an obligation to abide by host-country laws.

    US Protests Assault on Diplomat in Vietnam 2011

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