Overall economic growth rates in some developing countries in fact turned out much higher than the Bank expected.
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Some developing countries, such as Chile and Botswana, exhibit lower levels of corruption than some fully industrialized nations.
Indeed, some developing countries are fast outpacing European markets in sales growth.
That is meant to satisfy consumers who may be concerned about palm oil plantations, which have replaced areas of rainforest in some developing countries.
We have, in conjunction with the others, set forward some short-term financing goals that we believe internationally can be met to help some developing countries.
But apart from the question of reparations to which some developing countries feel they are entitled, two other issues mean the past is always a factor.
At the bottom, with no violations, are 21 diverse countries including not just the ever-polite U.K., Japan and Canada, but also some developing countries like Burkina Faso, Azerbaijan, the Central African Republic, and Panama.
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The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) says the increase in the levels of emissions in this year's report is due to projected economic growth in some developing countries and the removal of some emissions cuts that were counted twice.
However, on Thursday WTO director general Pascal Lamy said the next stage of the Doha talks would be the first one "where some developing countries will pay a price in terms of market access in manufacturing, in agriculture, in services".
And while the FAO admits that some developing countries will be able to expand their arable land by as much as 12 percent, the downside is that a "considerable part" of this extra farmland will be a direct result of deforestation.
Some safety yardsticks have not improved in many years, while recent accidents and incidents have exposed areas that still need work: safety on the ground at airports, the training of pilots to handle sophisticated computers, and greater awareness of flight hazards in some developing countries.
In particular, some developing countries are angry at what they see as western nations' attempts to insert new loopholes into regulations on how emissions from land use change are accounted for, which could allow western nations to cut actual emissions by less than they have pledged.
So now, G8 leaders will try to persuade some major developing countries to halve global emissions by 2050.
One is, frankly, that governments of some richer developing countries appear to be in this process for what they can get.
Furthermore, points out Rainer Schaefer of Dresdner Bank, some big developing countries, such as Brazil and India, have boosted their domestic oil production and are therefore less vulnerable than they used to be.
"In some of these developing countries, prices have gone up 80% for staple food, " she added.
Settling this question will mean some differentiation between developing countries, a term that includes both industrial giants and hapless victims, whose interests are very different.
Most of it is wasted in developed countries where food is plentiful, some by poor storage in developing countries.
Swayed by economic arguments, and also by the fact that emission levels in developing nations are rising rapidly, it declared unanimously in August that it would never ratify a treaty that let developing countries avoid some sacrifices.
Essentially you have a situation where the Kyoto Protocol and some of the subsequent accords called on the developed countries who were signatories to engage in some significant mitigation actions and also to help developing countries.
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The majority of developing countries feel that some of their most important trade interests have been neglected by the richer countries.
Some jobs may be outsourced to developing countries but there will be plenty, particularly in the services sector, that cannot be.
This will be the year that there is finally some progress toward new drugs for developing countries to treat tuberculosis, malaria and HIV.
Some 33% of children in developing countries suffer from moderate or severe growth problems, rising to more than 50% in the lesser-developed countries.
Traffic to his site reached 125, 000 page views in September, some of it from readers in developing countries without access to advanced university courses.
And there is the story of a new flow of money into developing countries that for some of them dwarfs the money available from aid.
Some have even sent scouts to developing countries.
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What appears to be happening is that raw material producers like Russia and some of the oil producers in developing countries, are making a quiet but concerted effort to have a bigger share of the wealth which seems constantly to be radiating from the huge US economy.
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