It's the volumes traded by Noble that are key to its success and a claim to being the natural-resources counterpart to Hong Kong's other notable supply-chain manager, Li & Fung.
To formalize links between, for example CIP or INIAP and NGOs, memoranda of understanding have been elaborated, specifying in detail the nature of the collaboration, resource flows, counterpart support and mutual objectives.
Between 1971 and 1983 during the oil booms, the economic performances of large oil and mineral exporters were worse than their resource-poor counterparts (Gelb 1988).
In other words, even where poor clients managed to access formal-sector creditors, the quantum of credit off-take is lower than that of their resource-rich counterparts.
During the 1970s when two oil booms occurred, oil-rich economies in the Middle East did not perform any better than their resource-poor counterparts in East Asia even though oil prices surged and oil-export nations controlled most of the oil industry.
These studies reveal that when taking other factors into consideration, grants in LICs have tended to out-perform their more resource-rich counterparts.
They were wrong; they need to place their intellectual firepower and resources – as their counterparts did in the era of Keynes and Roosevelt – in the service of designing an alternative system.
School administrators here say they do not have the resources of their counterparts in Arkansas, which slowed the rate of increase of its childhood obesity using money drawn from a state tobacco settlement windfall.
Even before this year's splurge, Portugal already had a near-Nordic ratio of public spending to GDP per head, without a GDP to match (see chart 4 .In effect, with the public sector absorbing half of GDP, the Portuguese private sector is left with a lower proportion of national resources than its counterparts in most other European countries.
They challenged their own perceptions and learned from each other; they shared choice resources with Indian counterparts; they let go of doing things their way.
Aboriginal children may also be exposed to more TB in adults than other groups are or have less access to medical resources than their counterparts (1 ).
