The second group consists of countries with debt problems, above all the United States.

Greece undoubtedly has serious problems today.

This is not to say that Mauritius is without problems.

Women are not spared from the malnutrition or diseases that afflict the majority of the population.

In countries with specific water quality problems, UNICEF will provide advice and technical support as necessary.

Yes, other parts of the world also suffer from governance problems.

But where is the country or region without serious economic worries and deep structural problems?

Most often, there are indeed families with unsolved housing and employment arrangements.

Like many other African countries, Cameroon suffers from insufficient electricity supplies.

Investor worries are now concentrated on the health of European banks, many of which have large exposures to Greece and the other southern European countries with severe fiscal problems.

In fact, the move will not resolve the country s energy problems in the absence of enormous inflows of investment to the sector.

For countries with solvency problems, an adjustment program like those for Greece, Ireland, or Portugal would be appropriate.

WASHINGTON D.C. Until recently, the International Monetary Fund s main job was lending to countries with balance of payment problems.

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

Those that are, stretching from South Korea and India to Egypt and Israel, are paying an even higher price for their water problems.

The IMF should stick to supporting countries with temporary external financing problems a wealthy creditor region that refuses to address its institutional contradictions is not a deserving case.

The problem countries in the EU have been moving in this direction, and their reforms success is largely proportionate to the speed with which they have been introduced.

Other peripheral countries already have Greek style problems of debt sustainability and eroded competitiveness.

Does the IMF s arrival in Europe signal the beginning of the end of the region s staggering debt woes? Hardly.

Before the crisis, the IMF s best known function lending to countries with balance of payment problems was becoming irrelevant.

Sergei Karaganov, Chairman of Russia s Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, assesses Russia s deepening foreign policy problems.

Deaf women came from with no hearing problems and 47 of these women have children

But there are other problems in the region that Israel and the world must face.

Greece has massive fiscal and competitiveness problems, but Greece (2.25 of the population of the European Union) is smaller than California (12 of the population of the United States).

France, too, has competitiveness problems, and is unable to meet its commitments under the European Union s Fiscal Compact.

For many years now, Aruba has had no problems with educational participation, despite the fact that it does not yet have compulsory education.

Whenever complaints come up in the United Nations Human Rights Committee, China can count on the support of many African countries that have their own human rights problems.

And Spain and Ireland before the crisis did not have a fiscal problem, owing to the rapid economic growth produced by a real estate boom that seemed to promise a new era of economic miracles.

Perceptions of such divergences force considerable risk premiums on problem countries, inevitably resulting in accelerating capital flight to safe havens.

However, much more needed to be done to assist countries that had reached the completion point but continued to experience severe debt sustainability and debt servicing problems.

Indeed, not only are governments running out of fiscal bullets as debt surges, but monetary policy is having little short run traction in economies suffering insolvency not just liquidity problems.

Mexico has profound security problems in some regions, but it is also a country that just might be on the threshold of a huge political and economic transformation.

Larger firms even those with large debt problems can refinance their excessive liabilities in court or out of court but an unprecedented number of small businesses are going bankrupt.

In these difficult economic times, Switzerland serves as a handy scapegoat, enabling financially challenged states to discharge their frustrations and divert their citizens attention from shortcomings in their own complicated and inefficient tax systems.

LONDON The crisis in the eurozone remains far from resolution. Investor worries are now concentrated on the health of European banks, many of which have large exposures to Greece and the other southern European countries with severe fiscal problems.

India s infrastructure problems are legendary, with airports and railroads that are comically inadequate.

It is not about to be replaced by the euro or the yen, given that both Europe and Japan have serious economic problems of their own.

There are undoubtedly colossal problems in Detroit, and the bosses of the Big Three automakers could never be convicted of an excess of imagination.

As for absolute decline, the US has very real problems, but the American economy remains highly productive. America remains first in total R D expenditure, first in university rankings, first in Nobel prizes, and first on indices of entrepreneurship.

Major eurozone economies like Spain and Italy have huge debt problems of their own, especially given anemic growth and a manifest lack of competitiveness.

However, it is a reality in rural areas that when families run into financial problems, girls, rather than boys, has to drop out from school for work.

Noting that the Government of the Territory continues to have financial, budgetary and internal control problems, but that it has recently taken steps to increase revenues and decrease government expenditures,

The problem is that this assumed maturity, whether real or not, is happening while the basic problems of the country remain unsolved.

When Estonia gained independence in 1991, Moscow sought to portray Estonia as a land with huge economic problems, unsuitable for investment.

Ms. Khan noted that on the demographic front the Gambia suffered from all the disadvantages of a least developed country.