African countries are experiencing the highest increase in the rate of tobacco use amongst developing countries.

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The advocacy group also knew that fertility rates in other developing countries had declined at a similar rate between 1970 and 1990 without a one-child policy.

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In developing countries with immature financial markets, a freely floating exchange rate may not be sensible because a small number of foreign-exchange trades can cause big swings in currencies.

ECONOMIST: Getting out of a fix

Unlike developing countries, which age from the bottom up because of a falling birth rate, rich countries age from the middle, adding old people with fewer workers to support them, and even fewer children to join the workforce.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

In addition, GKN has a big presence in developing countries where automotive sales are expanding by 8% a year, four times the rate of growth in the world as a whole.

FORBES: Beefing up the rump

In the past five years, the number of patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to companies based in RDEs (Rapidly Developing Economies) increased at a rate more than three times faster than that of companies in other countries.

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