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I would add that, in 1998 and 1999, among the main economic groupings, Europe will be the one with the most growth.

Malaysia is also a member of G-15 and G-77 economic groupings.

The African Union is the largest international economic grouping on the continent.

So when the leaders of the countries that make up the world's newest economic grouping meet here this weekend, expectations are subdued.

The European Community at that time consisted of six countries, and it was primarily an economic grouping.

In 1992, the country voted against joining an economic grouping tied to the 15-member European Union.

The Times proposed a "wide Atlantic-based free trade area" as one possibility of a broader economic grouping.

He was convinced of the need for, and the feasibility of, creating a regional economic grouping in Southern Africa.

Whether the name Kylfing denotes a particular tribal, socio-political, or economic grouping is also a matter of much debate.

The Finance and Economic grouping was the chief fund raiser, banker and purchasing agent.

Malaysia is trying to organize East Asia into what it delicately calls an "economic grouping" of Asian nations.

As the major estates transformed, a new economic grouping, the gentry, became evident, many of them benefiting from the opportunities of the farming system.

It is eager to be accepted next year as a full member of the Association for Southeast Asian Nations, the region's political and economic grouping.

Obtaining reliable information about those who own and run small enterprises, however, is difficult because there are no satisfactory national data sets directly concerned with this economic grouping.

Mr. Mahathir has spent most of the year pressing a plan for a new economic grouping that excludes non-Asians.

They will endeavor to adopt economic policies that can realize balanced economic and social development as a prelude to the establishment of an Arab economic grouping.

European communist countries had a looser economic grouping with the USSR known as Comecon.

How will the Central Europeans, already competing among themselves for Western Europe's favors, achieve equality of membership with an economic grouping whose living standards are three times higher?

Indeed, the members spent much of the time in Seoul explaining what the economic grouping, known as Apec, would not be and how the region should not be organized.

A similar debate is going on in Asia with its new economic grouping, called APEC for "Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation."

As the largest economy in Southeast Asia, Indonesia also belongs to another economic groupings such as G-20 major economies (G-20) and Developing 8 Countries (D-8).

The 10-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) is to invite South Africa to join the economic grouping, it was announced here Wednesday.

Economically, NAM should learn to deal with the "new reality" of economic groupings such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT.)

A major topic of discussion at the seminar was Mahathir's proposal, made in January, for an East Asian Economic Grouping (EAEG).

The Prime Minister said that he was disappointed before the summit meeting by the cool response of the United States and other nations to an Asians-only economic grouping that he has championed.