Certainly poor countries should not be made to adopt American or European environmental standards.
People in poor countries comply as well as those in the rich world do.
We also have another name for poor countries having these industrial revolutions: neoliberal globalisation.
Vastly more die in many poor countries from the non-existence or inadequacy of sewerage systems.
His adopted land has become an inspiration to many poor countries, especially in Africa.
And as economies have slowed, inequality of income, in rich and poor countries, has widened.
Poor countries are not lacking in entrepreneurial energy, as the bustle of countless street vendors attests.
The IMF's gold reserves could pay the (small) interest amounts that poor countries would otherwise owe.
In 16 poor countries, 55% of female-headed households own land, but 64% of male-headed ones do.
Only a lack of generosity separates poor countries from the 2015 targets, they argue.
Such changes would be felt especially in low-lying, populous and poor countries such as Bangladesh.
For people from many poor countries, Britain, despite its weather, must seem a paradise.
WTO, wrung his hands over the pain that the Zoellick plan would visit on poor countries.
More important, the Internet allows new partnerships between groups in rich and poor countries.
In most poor countries the patents on the drugs that people need most have already expired.
Poor countries can reap large economic benefits from opening their markets to each other.
Rich countries just about manage to put up with the sufferings of poor countries now.
On this measure, treatment is now economically justifiable in a lot of poor countries.
Poor countries have often been the dumping ground for products banned in the West as unhealthy.
But the prospect of migrating spurs people in poor countries to acquire marketable skills.
For poor countries, undeniably, it makes a big difference to the prospects for economic development.
In poor countries, demand for clean water is increasing rapidly, just as industrialisation is threatening supplies.
Poor countries have the most to gain from this efficient, flexible and (eventually) cheap technology.
It is not surprising that poor countries are unconvinced about the merits of a new round.
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By broadening the prospect of relief to all poor countries, the British proposal eliminates that inequity.
Just as in many poor countries, the difficulties stem from a temporary cash windfall.
The Paris Club of official creditors has offered steadily better terms to poor countries.
He argues that many poor countries possess an underlying comparative advantage in farm goods.
His argument rests on a surprising observation: most poor countries are net importers of agricultural goods.
They spread wealth from rich to poor countries, but now remittances are being squeezed.
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