The cycling between democracy and dictatorship that characterize countries with contested transitions, such as Argentina, France, Peru or Thailand, is far from exceptional.
The objective of this study is to further understand socio-economic, environmental and technological factors that characterize countries that choose nuclear energy production.
The jargon of the development community allows for different terms to characterize countries that are fundamentally poor.
The model is tested using an instrumental variables approach that takes advantage of the relationship between market accessibility and exogenous geographic features of the landscape as well as spatial data derived from a unique global dataset characterizing country-level market accessibility distributions.
He has criticized Mr. Obama's "Where's Waldo economy," for example, suggesting that the president has been an absent leader on the biggest issue facing the country, and he characterized the country's economic condition as the "Obama Great Recession".
In December of that year, Summers wrote a private memo that characterized developing countries as "under-polluted" and suggested that toxic waste should be sent to such areas as an exercise in economic efficiency.
But the use of a nonviolent strategy in the independence struggle has led to a climate where such potentially explosive issues are addressed without the warring militias and ethnic cleansing that have characterized other countries with serious ethnic divides.
Until this point Brazilians, both civilians and military, shared a sense of pride in the nation's political stability and for having avoided the caudillos, coups, military dictatorships and rebellions that characterized neighboring countries.
He characterized the country as suffering from "institutional paralysis and a dysfunctional government, signs of which are showing already".
Correction: September 30, 2000, Saturday An article on Sept. 21 about efforts by Singapore to control its population of crows characterized the country's size incorrectly.
