Cape Verde graduated from the United Nations' list of least developed countries in 2007, and joined the World Trade Organization last year.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

Now, in the South what developed and let's define it at least quickly what developed was one of the world's handful of true slave societies.

当时的南方变成了什么样,至少我们很快就能得出结论,当时的南方变成了世界历史上,为数不多的几个真正的奴隶社会之一

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The drought, and nearly two decades of political unrest and economic neglect have left the Mudug region one of the poorest and least developed in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06