The less developed countries were also saying we don't want to be compelled to do any of these.
The Vatican said they had a "cordial" private conversation about the financial crisis "and the duty to pursue initiatives benefiting the less developed countries".
The core question: How will the convivial club of "tiger" economies relate to the less developed, more insular neighbors they have invited to their table?
The irony is inescapable and the story a familiar one, as the developed world again turns to the less developed countries in hopes of powering their economies.
The State Council also pointed to a big wealth gap between the urban and rural regions and vowed to provide more fiscal support for the less developed central and western regions of the country.
In the less developed markets of the world, the cost perspectives, living and operating conditions and emissions regulations are closer to where they are in China than they are in the United States, Germany or Japan.
The next big thing for retailers in China will be the less-developed cities of the country's interior.
In such an economic environment, the up-front costs of environmental protection can appear daunting, particularly for officials in the less-developed interior of the country with far fewer economic resources.
Count on politicians and do-gooders to keep pushing plans for aiding the less-developed world.
Mainly with it good but not great multi-player and the less then developed supporting cast.
Outside the lab, rescue workers in the less-developed world might use portable gene machines to trace bacteria or viruses causing waterborne epidemics.
In the less-developed countries of South Asia and Southeast Asia family fortunes and homegrown foundations are taking on more of the causes that for decades were addressed by Western giants such as the Ford and Rockefeller foundations.
Across the Bosporus, on the city's less-developed Asian side, the sleek Sumahan--on the Water is like a vacation in the country, away from the European side's frenzy and traffic.
And therein lies the great news for countries with less developed higher education sectors than the United States.
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The study was unique in that it focused on a less developed region of the world and included data over an extensive period of time.
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"There are two tiers, with more-developed on one and less-developed on the other, " Myanmar minister David Abel told Asiaweek in Hanoi.
Vasella: Certainly, the leadership dimension is less developed in most people and most businesses.
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For all those reasons, the market for municipal funds is roughly 0.2 percent of the corporate bond market, and less developed than those in emerging economies like South Africa and the Philippines, claimed Nagarajan Narasimhan, senior director of CRISIL Ratings.
Graduates from the many less illustrious colleges in less developed parts of China, however, may come to rue the change.
While we may seem endlessly glum about the economy here, in fact U.S. entrepreneurs had the least fears of failure of any entrepreneurs in the developed world, with less than one-third of adults feeling discouraged from starting a business by fear.
In less developed economies, innovation is less important: they can grow by buying the developed world's technology.
Although there are no proven interventions for people without Alzheimer's symptoms, but who may be at risk, neurologists said it is crucial to identify people with early signs of the disease for the purposes of research, so that treatments can be developed when the disease is less severe in the brain.
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The risks are greatly magnified because all of the projected population increases will occur in less-developed regions that will have great difficulties in absorbing the changes.
They all have faster growth rates and much less debt than the developed countries.
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The inadequacies of Asia's capital markets, where corporate-bond markets are even less developed than stockmarkets, are the flipside of a dominant banking sector that intermediates four-fifths of the region's investment, compared with just a quarter in America.
And the big companies in the emerging markets generally have solid balance sheets and are much less levered than their peers in the developed markets.
We so easily forget that the brilliant strategies developed by us and the consultants we hire address less than half the battle.
Any one with a mouse can see that the US pays a scant amount of taxes compared with the rest of the developed nations, while at the same time getting less bang for the buck.
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