Experts say one reason more people are dying from cancer is because more people are smoking cigarettes in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Harvard research shows that more than half of the 450,000 people who died from breast cancer last year lived in developing countries.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

"We hope that this scheme will enable young British volunteers to work together with young people from developing countries to help build a fairer world, " she said.

BBC: Orphans in Haiti

Much of the work on oDesk comes from firms in rich economies and goes to people in developing countries, above all the Philippines and India.

ECONOMIST: The great mismatch

The main international effort to speed it up is an idea known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), which pays people in developing countries to leave trees standing.

ECONOMIST: Forests and how to save them