But for many of them, the dream is becoming more of a nightmare.Some of these countries now face big debt problems (over 100% of GDP in Dominica and Antigua), the result of persistent economic mismanagement.
While the Zardari government introduced important constitutional changes and laws that strengthened women's rights, it lost the public's trust amid persistent accusations of mismanagement and corruption, as well as the effects of a painful electricity crisis.
The award for commentary went to Juan Gonzalez, a columnist for The Daily News, for disclosing a $700 million boondoggle in a project to overhaul New York City's electronic payroll system and the Bloomberg administration's failure to act on persistent signs of mismanagement.
Corruption and mismanagement have been persistent problems in the isolated, quickly organized missions thousands of miles from New York that now characterize much more of the organization's work.
Persistent public suspicions about corruption and mismanagement that swirl around Egypt's secretive deal to sell natural gas to Israel prompted Egypt's public prosecutor on Friday to extend the questioning of former President Hosni Mubarak for 15 days, judicial officials said.
In the Middle East and North Africa, for example, persistent high youth unemployment highlighted economic mismanagement by authoritarian regimes and "unjust" labour markets shaped by family or political connections.
It is conceivable that similar misconceptions and mismanagement apply to other clinical syndromes, including persistent diarrhoea and persistent abdominal pain, which is the focus of the current study protocol.
Last month Brazilian agribusiness concerns forged deals to export more food to Venezuela, exploiting the persistent shortages in Venezuela's economy caused by mismanagement and price controls.
Mr. Waxman, who has been the most persistent Congressional critic of spending controls in Iraq, released a report on Tuesday called "U.S. Mismanagement of Iraqi Funds".
By coincidence (not?), President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to address the UN general assembly today, his usual fiery anti-western rant, doubtless inflamed by persistent speculation that the clerical authorities who call the shots – and hangings – in Iran are getting fed up with his economic mismanagement.
