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Now the poor countries are standing up for their right to a little bit of that space too.

The reality of life in poor countries has not been changed by the Bank's bean-counters.

The conference finally gave the green light to a new climate fund that aims to channel up to $100bn a year to poor countries.

It was agreed that in an overwhelming public health emergency, poor countries would be allowed to produce generic drugs.

Purpose of World Bank It is robbing poor countries of their important public resources in the name of offering loans. I feel sorry for that.

It also gives the world time to agree how much money should be given to help poor countries adapt to climate change and also cut emissions.

Some argue that poor countries should therefore rethink how much they spend on higher education.

Newborn care is often lacking in poor countries, particularly in hard to reach communities.

"The only way out of the crisis is to increase food production, in particular in poor countries, " he said.

Still, economic downturns seem to be hitting children in poor countries the hardest, and researchers say the impact can last a lifetime.

And in poor countries, the high initial cost of WiMax devices compared with mobile phones will make it a hard sell, he says.

In the poor countries the main concern focused on the question of growth versus income distribution.

Given that events like earthquakes and tsunamis cannot be escaped, the bank is also doing more to help poor countries prepare for the worst.

poor countries would compete by carrying out microeconomic reforms that make it easy to start and build companies.

But even in quite poor countries, a different concept of poverty also seems to creep in, the authors argue.

And then it was the poor countries that had messed up in the last global financial crisis.

When the bank was founded, it really was the only source of capital for many poor countries.

In poor countries the focus of political and business life is often rent-seeking rather than wealth creation.

The way out of such a trap is to build a road. And if poor countries cannot build it themselves, rich donors should step in.

"Any significant increases in funding for the Bank must come with a say for poor countries in the way the Bank is run. "

For years, the would stared at the spreading AIDS disaster and argued whether effective AIDS care could ever be practical in poor countries.

Suspicious types may think AgCLIR is just a way of testing the friendliness of poor countries to American investors; but the scope is wider.

For most poor countries, the "fast start" financing is only a minor part of the assistance they have been demanding.

President Sarkozy said he would double emergency food aid to roughly $100 million this year for poor countries.

Developed countries must accept their responsibility to help poor countries deal with these changes, and must do so as a matter of urgency.

A recent working paper finds a strong relationship between the two, particularly in developing, technology-poor countries.

The World Bank is an agency for channelling aid funds to poor countries for medium and long-term projects. The Bank raises . . .

But poor people and poor countries could soon end up paying the heaviest price for a mess they have had no hand in creating.

However, some poor countries have scored notable successes in reducing child labour to the point of virtually eliminating it.

We in the rich world are used to the idea of our big companies dumping their dirty and anti-social industries on the poor countries.

No doubt, in a vicious circle, those differences help keep poor countries poor.

But as things now stand, it is far from sure that farmers in poor countries will be able to take advantage of higher prices.

Third, the IMF and the bank have to get serious about helping poor countries manage their debt sensibly.

Disagreement between rich and poor countries over emission targets and financing has been a constant subject of tension.

take a good look at the tough lives in the poor countries, what you called "difficulties" will suddenly disappear without trace.

The answer lies in an innovative scheme that would pay the poor countries not to chop down trees.

So, is all hope lost for poor countries with rich natural resources?

The number of scientists, engineers, and physicians born in poor countries and working in affluent ones is of great concern to policymakers.

But if the real goal is to help poor countries then the better approach is for the US substantially to increase its development aid.

Improved availability and access to safe child-specific medicines is still far from reality for many children in poor countries.

Coping with climate change will cost poor countries tens of billions of dollars a year by most reckonings .

And with the urban population in poor countries soaring, cholera is still a pressing concern.

Children in poor countries get diarrhoea on average four times per year. Each of these episodes can be life-threatening.

Only thus, suggests Collier, are the resource-poor countries ever likely to break into world markets for manufactures.

The country is concerned poor countries will not be able to afford or be given access to vaccines derived from the samples.

But longer-term measures were also needed to help farmers in poor countries boost production in the face of future shortages.

But advocates say poor countries may not be able to pay for the expanded immunization on their own.

A decade ago SBI might have confirmed many prejudices about big state banks in poor countries.

People in poor countries are now able to exert more control over their own fertility, and hence over the size of their families.

As a consequence, farmers in poor countries, where agricultural investment had been neglected, could not react quickly when prices shot up.

They also say wealthy nations did not offer enough money and technology to help poor countries deal with climate change.

Multibillion dollar subsidies allow cultivation of these plants elsewhere, which requires more land and hurts farmers in poor countries.

AFTER vaccines and bed nets, could the humble cooking stove be the next big idea to save millions of lives in poor countries?

Poor countries did not cause the crisis yet have been badly hurt by it.

Maybe, but skeptics said the same about the potential of mobile phones in poor countries a decade ago.

In poor countries, vitamin supplements -a common expedient-reach less than half of those who most need them, the rural poor.

Until recently, few poor countries treated it as a scarce resource, nor did they think about how it would affect their development projects.

Helping Haiti set up a benchmark of helpingstandards to be extended to other poor countries around the worldspecially in Africa.

That could be changed, if governments in both rich and poor countries lived up to their commitments.

Many poor people are drawn to somewhat less poor countries in the hope of finding work, just as they are to rich countries.

Galo Chiriboga, Ecuador's oil minister, said that an increase was necessary to help poor countries struggling to cope with record prices.

Poor countries fear the fund and choose to suppress its conclusions; middling countries quarrel with it; rich countries ignore it.

Kerosene costs less than other forms of lighting, but it is still costly in poor countries.

And yet there are plenty of other examples of poor countries that manage to bodge along, misgoverned by corrupt elites.

A US public convinced that poor countries game the system would kill any prospect for a Copenhagen deal.

In the hierarchy of jobs in poor countries, sweltering at a sewing machine isn't the bottom.

In many poor countries the cost of living was steeper than previously thought, which meant more people fell short of the poverty line.

Poor countries have been allowed to skip about $6bn in IDA repayments, which would normally have been reinvested.

He put debt relief for poor countries firmly on its agenda, along with a more open discussion of corruption.

Then there are the oddballs; Saudi Arabia plans to set up a state fund to buy farmland in poor countries to meet rising food demand at home.

The flow of capital from poor countries to the richest economy in the world is exactly the opposite of what economic theory would predict.

The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing U. S. advance to poor countries that they retain their births.

The technology was adopted by farmers in the rich world outside Europe, but poor countries seemed likely to be left behind.

A group monitoring corruption levels around the world says illegal practices in poor countries are threatening the fight against poverty.

The evidence that the rich have done best is certainly compelling. Inequality has risen in both rich and poor countries.

Walk into a health centre in many poor countries, and you would be lucky to find enough doctors or nurses.

If that is the case, then poor countries should be able to go straight from agriculture to services, leapfrogging manufacturing.

The EU boasts that this is the world's largest set of unilateral trade privileges for poor countries.

Overall, the gains remain too slow, yet specific and accelerated investments in the poor countries can still deliver the MDGs on schedule.

To poor countries, this sounds paltry: responses range from "bribery" to "it will not even pay for the coffins" .

Their melting leaves poor countries with less of a buffer to protect farmers against changing weather and rainfall patterns.

Efforts to deliver ART in poor countries have been characterized by innovation across the board.

But it wants rich nations to help offset the costs for poor countries' carbon-abatement projects.

Certainly the theory holds up in comparisons between people in rich and poor countries.

Mr Bush has asked Congress for another hefty $30 billion over the next five years to tackle AIDS in poor countries.

is to allow Nepal to participate in international carbon-trading schemes that pay poor countries with lots of trees not to cut them down.

A growing number of poor countries are trying new models, as they look for better, cheaper ways to accommodate prisoners.

and fears that poor countries will suffer as a result of a "brain drain" are overblown.

In poor countries, however, providing all pregnant women with iron supplements can be a financial issue.

"Fundamentally, the crisis of high food prices in the majority of poor countries is not over at all, " said von Braun.

Advocates of even more aid through the current system sometimes call for a Marshall plan today for poor countries.

Though China and India embarked on market reforms and grew rapidly, growth in a large number of small, poor countries was disappointing.

But this vision has translated into a bitter divide between rich and poor countries.

The current conflict between the Koreas illustrates a broader global trend toward chaos along borders separating rich and poor countries.

Resource Scarcity , Institutional Adaptation , and Technical Innovation : Can Poor Countries Attain Endogenous Growth ?

Until recently, the uptake of routine voluntary testing in resource-poor countries was low, but progress is now being made.

Establishing criterion for investment of a nation' s resources is crucially important for poor countries.

The Europeans ( buttressed by a few experts from poor countries ) are there to explicate , and are set up as good guys and bad guys .

However, with all this change, let's hope that it also helps the people in poor countries where slave labour still happens.

Treating water in homes is a more effective way of controlling diarrhoea in poor countries than interventions at wells.

Prices of many agricultural commodities are still below the levels that sparked food riots in poor countries around the world in 2008.

One is the legacy of the firm's past scandals involving the sale of milk powder in poor countries, which led to painful boycotts.

"Many reasonable companies must surely have concluded. . . that investment in poor countries is not worth the effort, " sighs Ms Bernstein.

By importing savings from abroad, poor countries can invest more than they are able to set aside from their own meagre output.

Current vaccines to protect against cholera must be kept in cold storage. The need for refrigeration limits use in poor countries.

The poor countries, where many of the new democracies have flowered, are typically endowed with abundant labour but scarce capital.

They also advance Norway's goal of securing a replacement to the Kyoto protocol, by giving poor countries more of a stake in the process.

Rich, middle-income and poor countries have acknowledged both the threat of a changing climate and the need for urgent action by all.

The global inflation imbalance can be traced back to the post-crisis stimulus, in both rich and poor countries.

India has trained poor countries' civil servants for decades, in a programme called Indian Technical and Economic Co-operation (ITEC).

The taxpayers in these other poor countries picked up the tab for the financial markets' mistakes.

The Global Humanitarian Forum estimates that 99% of climate change deaths (more than 300, 000 a year) occur in poor countries.

It is shrewdly annexing poor countries in Asia and Africa, by building infrastructure, but at the cost of raiding their rich resources.

This theory provides many insights, and must be followed if poor countries are to start on the path of economic development.

That should become available to poor countries with "immediate operational effect" , he said. "That is a good start. "

For poor countries, Hewlett-Packard makes a "rural" laptop that can be set out in the dust and rain.

The report critically assessed the way that health care is organized, financed, and delivered in rich and poor countries around the world.

During the SARS outbreak, the lack of hygiene in poor countries had devastating consequences to all people of the world.

Aid agencies have also used weather derivatives to help poor countries cope with drought.

International relief agencies have appealed for emergency funds to help Haiti and other poor countries hit by food riots.

The daunting task of providing proven HIV preventive measures to poor countries must also be tackled, they say.

In the name of deficit reduction, the House budget guts a range of foreign-aid programs that benefit poor countries.

The report warns that the ability of poor countries to provide important life-saving services is in danger.

Money should flow from the rich to the poor countries, but increasingly, it goes in the opposite direction.

Their personal stories show the tragic reality of cancer in poor countries and its strong impact on people and their families.

He urged the bank to change with Asia's economic rise but to continue its poverty reduction efforts in poor countries.

If the poor countries do nothing, the rich countries argue, their own expensive efforts will be in vain.

The W. H. O. says most poor countries spend less than one percent of their health budgets on mental health.

These should help development in poor countries as well as the atmosphere.

Kerosene costs less than other forms of lightingButbut it is still costly in poor countries.

Stockmarkets are unlikely to be a major force in poor countries in the near future.

Buyers in poor countries demand solutions on an entirely different price-performance curve.

Voters have also disproved another proposition: that money inevitably distorts the political process, particularly in poor countries.

The trade policies of the rich and poor countries have been judicially solved by World Trade Organization.

Aid groups and activists have been pressuring the I. M. F . and World Bank to give poor countries more power in those organizations.

He also calls for an end to trade-distorting policies, which would allow farmers from poor countries fairer market access.

Most problematic of all, modern services require skilled workers, not the unskilled type that poor countries have in abundance.

Most of these products were exported from China and other relatively poor countries to consumers in richer countries.

An obstacle in some poor countries is the lack of a regulatory framework that would help microfinance thrive.

The main problem is not the one poor countries and NGOs usually complain about: too little aid.

Aid groups and activists have been pressuring the I. F. M. and World Bank to give poor countries more power in those organizations.

Donations may be necessary to launch a laptop program in some poor countries, he says, but governments are needed to keep it going.

If climate change does slow poor countries' growth rates, the onus on rich ones to help will be even larger.

The relationship between formal education and economic growth in poor countries is widely misunderstood by economists and politicians alike.

She strongly emphasizes, throughout the book, the difference between women in "health rich" and in "health poor" countries.

And I can confirm that the G8 finance ministers have agreed a 100 percent debt cancellation for the heavily-indebted poor countries.

So yes, poor countries can afford democracy, as long as they use their democratic government to promote economic freedoms.

Poor countries suggested language that would allow compulsory licensing of low-carbon technologies developed in the rich world.

But even the most grizzled veterans of rich-world journalism still seem glad to earn extra money tutoring tyros in poor countries.

The bulk of a burger's cost depends on local inputs such as rent and wages, which tend to be lower in poor countries.

The risk of dying in a botched abortion isonly part of a broader problem of maternal health in poor countries.

The group will explore ways to bring down the cost of food and increase agricultural production in poor countries.

King Wangchuk transformed Bhutan from one of the world's mostreclusive poor countries to one of its more enlightened.

It requires campaigns to give polio vaccine to all children under 5 in poor countries, at a cost of almost $1 billion per year.

But so far a meagre $300m in aid has been pledged and it is likely that poor countries may have to take most of the burden themselves.

Deepen our understanding of the relationship between international prices and local prices in poor countries.

Poor countries have lots of unskilled labor. They should therefore export goods that are intensive in unskilled labor, pushing up its wages.

But responses can actually make a huge difference in the poor countries.

The United Nations report says climate change will affect poor countries, cities and individuals more severely.

But some of these companies are re ond ing to needs of poor countries.

Poor countries will often lack the financial means, technical expertise or political institutions necessary for such endeavours.

Traditional creditors (rich countries) and traditional debtors (poor countries) have switched places.

But F. A. O. official Hafez Ghanem says lower prices have failed to end the food crisis in many poor countries.

In most poor countries, excessive business regulations place a heavy burden on entrepreneurs.

Doctors in poor countries, especially in Africa, often rely on physical signs alone to track progression of the deadly disease.

IMF researchers now concede that poor countries may be helped, not hindered, by turning away foreign speculators.

This is why companies like TOMS Shoes were created that give away a pair of shoes to poor countries for every pair sold.

The drops cut a wide swathe across the world, with exports plummeting in rich and poor countries alike.

The president has called for more emphasis on procuring produce from local farmers in poor countries.

What are the main differences between rich and poor countries with respect to causes of death?

A: Another challenge that we face is developing and delivering vaccines for diseases that are mainly in poor countries.

Poor countries are both the most vulnerable to these ills and have the governments with the least ability to address them.

Poor countries therefore think emissions per head, not absolute emissions, should be the standard.

Use up to 30 times the amount of resources as people from poor countries.

But an important reason why the round will produce fewer benefits than it could has more to do with poor countries' trade policies.

The World Bank and many rich countries have doubled the money they put into poor countries' farming.

Prominent Americans with good lawyers may gain some relief, but for news outlets in poor countries it is likely to make little difference.

George Soros, the billionaire financier, unveiled a plan yesterday to lend poor countries $100bn to deal with the threat of climate change.

Access to information and knowledge, the Representative said was critical to the education and training needs of poor countries.

Kerosene costs le than other forms of lighting, but it is still costly in poor countries.

Some poor countries, particularly those with excess household saving, could do with a better social safety net.

China Exim Bank and China Development Bank, the main lenders, publish no figures about their vast loans to poor countries.

The rich countries' problem is rigidity and the poor countries' problem is capacity.

He believes that financial innovation of this sort has great potential in both rich and poor countries.

The United Nations agreed to start an adaptation fund for poor countries last month at climate talks in Bali, Indonesia.

The Food and Agriculture Organization warns sharp rises in cereal prices have left 37 poor countries in an emergency situation.

I think Uganda is ridiculous: the prices are too high. These international companies have to rethink about cheating poor countries.

The WHO has helped a few poor countries to start such plants, but the technology involved is tricky.

Smoking and its associated ailments are still rising in poor countries, even while they fall in rich ones.

Extremely drug-resistant TB, a problem in poor countries, emerges when people don't take the full course of their TB medicines.

However, I disagree with this view because most poor countries rely on direct financial support to relieve the pressures of poverty.

Demand for all of these minerals is likely to surge as poor countries get rich.

IP is investing instead in poor countries, where demand is still growing.

As a result, they are able to adopt frontier technology much faster than other poor countries with less private savings.

Similarly, GE has developed low-cost medical scanners for Asian markets that are now being sold in other poor countries, too.

His Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) gives poor countries money if they can come up with a good plan for what to do with it.

In rich and poor countries alike the authorities are increasingly inclined to entrust waste management to the private sector.

The financial crisis, collapsing stock markets and plunging commodity prices have hit companies in rich and poor countries alike.

Well, are rich people happier Researchers have found that in poor countries, being relatively well off does make for greater well-being.

These data sets, while imperfect, reveal that men in poor countries are generally much more unfaithful than those in rich ones.

TRADITIONAL media may be declining in much of the rich world, but in poor countries it is booming.

Poor countries are very far from the frontier, so it is extremely costly for their companies to adopt frontier technology.

However, in 35 of the world's poor countries, birth rates remain high, with an average of more than five children per mother.

Labour productivity itself explains much of the gap between rich and poor countries.

And that means over a billion urban consumers (and some landless labourers), many of whom are politically influential in poor countries.

Third, we need seeds and fertiliser for the planting season, especially for smallholders in poor countries.

But it raises hard questions about whether foreign aid should be for poor people or poor countries.

Many poor countries have no stockpiles of the drug.

There are many reasons to promote economic development in poor countries but the elimination of terror is not a good one.

The statement also emphasized the importance of a safe, accessible cure that can be widely adopted in rich and poor countries.

It provides financial security in poor countries, where herds are often a family's savings.

If those numbers stack up, that suggests an unlikely development tactic for poor countries: hire more weather forecasters.

Authoritarian countries become corrupt; corrupt countries become poor; and poor countries are weak.

It says the economic crisis has cut the amount of foreign aid and investment going to poor countries.

The World Bank subsidises fossil-fuel projects in the developing world, even while its lenders want poor countries to go green.

And France won't even entertain the idea of reducing its massive farm subsidies without major concessions from poor countries.

Moreover, targets set at national level have little effect in poor countries where public administration works badly.

It is extraordinarily difficult for poor countries to climb into the top ranks of world economic powers.

If capital often flees poor countries, that is not only because higher, or more secure, returns might be obtained elsewhere.

They announced plans for thousands of millions of dollars in aid to poor countries.

Tackling both infectious and non-infectious disease requires a robust health system, which many poor countries lack.

In multilateral deals, poor countries can piggyback on powerful countries' negotiating clout; in bilateral deals, they're on their own.

For Kofi Annan, the previous secretary-general, the big issue was peacekeeping and conflict in poor countries.

One can not protect poor countries, the system of government there may be problems not to be neglected.

The major hurdle many poor countries face is not too much globalization but too little.

Even so, the faster spread of technology to poor countries is weakening the rich world's comparative advantage in high-tech sectors.

Later I became a volunteer doctor and my main job was to perform operations on patients of poor countries.

Such support, she says, will save countless lives and improve the economic and development prospects of poor countries.

The overriding challenge is to shift more poor countries into the high-growth category.

Rich and poor countries generally agree that climate change must be addressed, but often differ on how to go about it.

The right way, argues Alexander Mueller of the FAO, is for farmers in poor countries to boost their yields.

India has spent more than other poor countries on advanced education relative to elementary education.

And in hindsight, US leadership was largely driven by concern during the cold war to keep poor countries from going communist.

This approach may be generalized in the context of TB control programs in resource-poor countries.

Mr Obama would then submit all three pacts to Congress for ratification, along with renewal of preferential tariffs for poor countries.

In the past, many poor countries were so fiscally profligate that no sane investor, even a patriotic one, would lend them his own money.

But neither type of financial flexibility really suits relatively poor countries with high savings rates.

Many resource-poor countries lack facilities for rigorously screening blood supplies.

Mr. Kang was very puzzled: This poor countries, it has also, and Eight-charge with the big guys!

Investing in agricultural research and development can help poor countries fight hunger and poverty.

Hello governments of rich countries selling arms to governments of poor countries who can't even afford to give them food.

Even before the financial crisis, the spending power of women was increasing in both rich and poor countries.

Second, poor countries see a climate-change deal in fundamentally different terms.

In effect, the adjustments value services about equally everywhere but services cost less in poor countries.

One study found that unless they lose more than 20% of their university graduates, the brain drain makes poor countries richer.

Contrary to received wisdom, slashing the rich world's trade-distorting subsidies has a relatively small effect on poor countries.

Only two months ago, the FAO estimated the poor countries' cereal imports bill would rise by 25 per cent.

Social programs in many poor countries tend to benefit people who aren't those in the greatest need.

GlaxoSmithKline has said it will offer poor countries all its medicines at 25 per cent less than the typical price in the developed world.

The simultaneous woes of manufacturing in rich countries and poor countries are something new in the global economy.