We also have another name for poor countries having these industrial revolutions: neoliberal globalisation.
For poor countries, undeniably, it makes a big difference to the prospects for economic development.
For poor countries land deals offer a chance to reverse decades of underinvestment in agriculture.
Substantial price reductions or even donations of welfare-enhancing new medicines for poor countries are called for.
There is also plenty of scope for poor countries to work with, and learn from, one another.
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Congress has, for instance, finally agreed to fully fund the administration's request for debt relief for poor countries.
On aid for poor countries, it was clear that Mr O'Neill was at odds with the White House.
This lavish support distorts prices and blocks market access for poor countries that are natural exporters of farm products.
For poor countries, a little biotech could be just what the doctor ordered.
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And for poor countries like India and Pakistan, there are a thousand urgently competing priorities for extremely limited government resources.
IMF's Interim Committee is likely to agree to sell some of the Fund's gold to finance debt relief for poor countries.
And they can focus their overseas aid on the issue that is most difficult for poor countries to deal with themselves: disease.
We are working for international agreement to extend this to cover other countries which provide export credits for poor countries as well.
Over that period, the same index for poor countries tumbled 60%.
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Moving towards a more enlightened treatment of bankruptcy will not be easy, particularly for poor countries with inefficient legal systems and retributive attitudes to debt.
For poor countries, there is no Medicare-like program to fund.
Some of these rules make sense on their own terms (who could be against swift customs clearance or transparent government procurement?) but they would be costly for poor countries to implement and monitor.
Each CMIM country has access to the amount it has committed times a multiple (five for poor countries, 2.5 for the better-off ASEAN members, one for South Korea and 0.5 for China and Japan).
That, in turn, has stiffened opposition to further official gold sales, and, in particular, to the sale of another 300 tonnes planned by the International Monetary Fund to help pay for debt relief for poor countries.
Lant Pritchett, of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, argues that faster global migration would bring huge gains for poor countries, exceeding the combined rewards offered by foreign aid, debt relief and trade reforms proposed under the Doha development round.
Jeffrey Sachs, a Harvard economist, has drawn attention to the scale of the problem: poor countries cannot afford expensive medicines, and drug companies naturally tend to focus their research on finding cures for the ills of the rich (see Jeffrey Sachs on development and Medicines for poor countries) rather than the afflictions of the poor.
When the bank was founded, it really was the only source of capital for many poor countries.
Equally uncertain is the degree to which it can breathe new life into market mechanisms for helping poor countries, and how the promised verification regime will actually build trust.
For many poor countries, even well governed ones, building schools and (still more so) the costs of keeping them running and of training teachers are both a battle for money and a race against population growth.
For relatively poor countries with insufficient organic and inorganic deposits in their soils, the phytochemistry and the chemistry of natural products offer a chance to develop a sound economy based on knowledge with high added value.
On cash, money should indeed change hands both for moral reasons (rich countries are largely responsible for the problem so far but poor ones will suffer most) and for practical ones (some poor countries do not have access to the capital they need to invest in mitigation).
Other ideas include a clean development mechanism that would allow firms and countries to earn credits for investments that help poor countries clean up, and a joint implementation scheme that awards credits for projects carried out in other industrialised countries.
In farm trade, for instance, poor countries urgently need better access to rich-country markets for their farm products.
Rich countries were less likely to see religion as a force for good than poor countries - the main exception being the United States, where 65% said it had a positive impact.
James Tobin had originally proposed that revenues from the tax be used for aid to poor countries.
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