The European Union (EU) does not normally let member governments insure short-term export credits to developed countries anyway.
Tencent is speeding up its effort to introduce the Chinese company's WeChat mobile app to developed countries, including the U.S., CEO Pony Ma said.
Singapore gets by on 14.2% of GDP, but still manages to provide all the services common to developed countries everywhere, including a universal health care system for all citizens.
The rush to Bangladesh began in earnest in 2005, when an international trade quota system called the Multi Fiber Arrangement expired, lifting the strict limit on the amount of textiles and garments developing countries could export to developed countries.
Moreover, the benefits of globalization seem to be flowing disproportionately to the developed countries.
The Asus Foundation has financed green projects but mostly backs IT-related philanthropy, such as sending computers to less developed countries.
Russian mortality is still quite high compared to developed Western countries, but is significantly lower than it was in the very recent past.
These export-processing zones provided for duty-free entry and duty-free exit for export-oriented goods and helped in the transfer of technology and skill to the developed countries.
There is also growing optimism that Pakistan will get generous terms for rescheduling its debt with the Paris Club - a club of rich states which lend money to less developed countries.
If Beijing doubles its budget deficit (still very low relative to most developed countries) and boosts revenue from SOEs on social welfare programs and income transfers, China would spend at similar percentage as the U.S. and inequality may be reduced to a similar rate.
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.
Kyoto's critics in America are unlikely to sign up to any agreement that encourages developed countries to pay over the odds to modernise factories in China, as under the current system.
The issue of how money from this "top tier" of countries can make its way to the least developed countries is a fraught one.
Developed nations should provide sums of money each year to developing countries for climate adaptation and mitigation that "shall be equivalent to the budget that developed countries spend on defence, security and warfare".
They'll be trying to navigate the remaining hurdles to fully implementing new international schemes to bring financial support and clean technology from developed countries to their poorer counterparts.
On the eve of the July G8 summit, due to be held in Genoa, he will be lobbying key developed countries to take more action on abolishing Third World debt.
Mobile Net users will far outpace wired Net users, thanks to growth in developed countries.
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It forbids exports from developed to developing countries of toxic waste in any form.
Compared to loans in developed countries, microloans have far shorter repayment cycles, oftentimes as short as a week.
In his speech, Hu said food security, infrastructure, and tariff-free and quota-free treatment to least-developed countries have been the focus of the G20 consultations on development this year.
Migration from developed to developing countries has been a common phenomenon, however recent evidence shows that there is a growing incidence of migration from one developing country.
Donor countries should increase the volume of aid flows going to water and sanitation programs and target it to the least developed countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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Alcohol consumption is the third biggest contributor to disease in developed countries and in the UK young people aged between 16 and 24 consume more than any other group.
At some point in the future a situation exists where those world-wide supplies of raw materials start to dwindle and developed countries watch prices go up as they all compete for the same things.
The question of who gets paid what, and how, feeds back into the main issue in these and inevitable future talks: to what extent will obligations under the Kyoto protocol be extended beyond the developed countries to developing ones?
They spoke not only about the need to find alternatives to traditional energy sources, but whether there'll ever be a concerted effort in developed countries to conserve rather than consume precious resources.
Dr Helen Lee, who led the research, told BBC News Online the new test could be used in the developing world, where people may find it hard to access healthcare, and in developed countries, where up to half those tested do not come back for their results.
The Kyoto Protocol emerged from the Doha COP-18 negotiations with an extension up to 2020, but much weakened with only a few developed countries agreeing to commit funds.
Experts predict that to meet the growing demand, operators in developed countries may have to treble the number of base stations.
If Internet users are expected to double to close to 1 billion by 2005, according to the UNDP Human Development Report 2002, it is hard to see how the imbalance in favour of developed countries is going to be redressed in the foreseeable future without strong political motivation.
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