wht is common wealth country,does west indies come under it?
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Commonwealth countries are an association of 54 sovereign self ruling states the majority of which once formed part of the British Empire. There are 13 countries which are still not sovereign and depend upon the UK but are still called commonwealth countries. West Indies therefore also comes under the commonwealth.
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Although I do not know if each individual country in West Africa (Africa is a continent not a country) has government paid health care I will generalize.....\n\nIt resembles the US in that the people who can pay to maintain good health or get medical attention get it and those who can't pay don't get any or get less quality care.
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The best ones!\n\nThe M nearly got it right but Canada is in the Commonwealth and is not renowned for its cricketing prowess, neither is the Netherlands part of the Commonwealth!!\n\n"The official Test Cricket nations are currently: England, Australia, West Indies, South Africa, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe. \n\nThe West Indies is actually a consortium of Caribbean countries: Barbados; Jamaica; Guyana; The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Antigua and Barbuda; St. Kitt's-Nevis; Dominica; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Montserrat; and Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique. \n\nMinor cricketing nations (which do not play Test cricket, but do compete for a place in the World Cup One-Day competition) include: Kenya, Fiji, Canada, The Netherlands, Bangladesh."\n\nFrance also has cricketing connections: \n\n"France was one of two nations to compete in the only Olympic cricket event, in 1900. They lost, making them the only nation to lose an Olympic cricket match and the only Olympic silver medallists in Cricket."
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I don't know.  How about if I make something up?\n\n0.  You can consider wealth to be goods circulating within a country.  Having colonies meant goods being shipped from the colonies back to the mother countries, thus enriching them.\n\n1.  Some monetary systems were based on gold.  Spain had "conquered" the empires of the Aztecs and the Incas, and had taken lots of gold and emeralds from them and shipped these back to Europe.\n\n2.  Raw materials and "valuable" spices were shipped from the colonies to Europe.  These were traded among the European nations.  Finished goods could be shipped back to the colonies.\n\n3.  Slaves... oh my, these provided a cheaper source of labor, which meant that making finished goods or harvesting raw materials cost less.
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Certainly Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad has large offshore reserves and most of the major oil companies are present there. Barbados has a small oil production industry. Cuba also has some oil reserves. The three combined have 1.74 billion barrels of proven oil reserves and 28.4 Tcf of natural gas. Trinidad and Tobago 990 billion barrels of oil reserves and about 26 Tcf of the natural gas reserves. Cuba is second in reserves in the Caribbean with 750 million barrels of oil reserves and 2.5 Tcf of natural gas. Jamaica, Grenada and the Bahamas have all tried to generate interest in exploration from oil companies.  So far the Bahamas have leased nine offshore blocks covering 6.5 million acres but no wells have been drilled as seismic data is being acquired.
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To begin with, we don't have any common wealth "states" or "countries".  That would be England.  We do however have territories.  And yes, people in those territories do vote.
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I believe this "jewel in the crown" is a refrence to India under the British rule.  India was Britain's colony during the Victorian Era and it provided much wealth and resources to the British hence the jewel.  It was in the crown because it was considered part of the British Royal Empire or the crown.
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They are too busy giving taxpayers money away to other countries!! When Gordon Brown made his speech about making poverty history,the UK was not included.Poverty,along with just about anything else in this country,does not exist in Gordon Browns eyes! Sadly, it does.
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Caribbean and West Coast African.  Usually in corrup country.
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England is a part of Great Britain.
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It's not just about England, but any "commonwealth" country.\n\nQueen Lizardbreath II earns her living by dressing in outrageous clothes, walking around in public, lying on her back and fcuking to produce children.  She's an overpaid prostitute.\n\nThe only kings in the world who don't have their heads up their asses and do some good are those in Bhutan and Thailand.
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CAPITALISM!\n\n\nSeriously... How could you live in country that has \n"In god we trust" on its MONEY??????
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Corruption bleeds into every part of a nation.  Latin American countries are often teh victims of corrupt officials, which decreases their ability to form a working economy.  Every prosperous nation has something in common- in the begining, there was much strife, and the leaders sacraficed for the good of the people.  The nation's citizens work together for a common goal.  Free and prosperous economies don't develop in places where every individual is out for themselves.
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Australia or West Indies
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The site below has some interesting facts.  The developed world set a target of 0.7% of its gross national income to be given to the poor nations.  Almost every nation came up short.  Except for Luxembourg and the Scandinavian nations who are always good. We give alot in gross dollars but as a proportion of our income we are cheapskates.  Italy beats us.  Tiny little Belgium beats us.  Belgium!  What have they got to give away anyway?  Chocolate?
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The English noun Commonwealth dates originally from the fifteenth century. The original phrase "common wealth" or "the common weal" comes from the old meaning of 'wealth' which is 'well-being'. The term literally meant "common well-being". Thus commonwealth originally meant a state governed for the common good (as opposed to a tyrannical state).\n\nToday the term is more general and means a political community.\n\nThe type of community indicated by the term commonwealth varies. For instance, in different contexts it might indicate:\n\na political unit founded in law by agreement of the people for the common good; \na federated union of constituent states; \na community of sovereign states; \na republic; \na democratic constitutional monarchy; \na Co-operative Commonwealth is a society based on cooperative and socialist principles. \n\nFour states in the United States officially designate themselves "commonwealths": Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
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No.  It comes from industrialization.  Most western nations have been industrialized for some time and it generates wealth.  Africa has resources, but have corrupt governments and tribalism that is hampering its ability to industrialize.  You have to get a centralized government that functions and have rules of trade that will allow people to earn profit for a country to industrialize.  Unless that happens, poor nations will stay poor.  It is not the work of the western world keeping them poor.  It is up to them to make it work.