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Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries. -- Chris Patten
Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that. -- Goodluck Jonathan
It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world. -- P. Chidambaram
What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way. -- Ferdinand Marcos
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed countries. -- Lucy Powell
I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy. -- Hugo Chavez
We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries. -- Hugo Chavez
Developed countries should support developing countries in tackling climate change. This not only is their responsibility, but also serves their long-term interests. -- Hu Jintao
The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries. -- Anna Lindh
Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity. -- Anna Lindh
In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education. -- Peter Diamandis
If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt? -- Jim Rogers
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire. -- Barbara Amiel
Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries. -- Nicola Sturgeon
We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off. -- Peter Singer
The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants. -- Naoto Kan
While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world. -- Carol Bellamy
Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace. -- Michelle Bachelet
The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced. -- Toshihiko Fukui
Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them. -- Bill Gates
Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.' -- Mo Ibrahim
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite. -- Miriam Makeba
It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That's no longer the case, and as China and India grow, it's changing even more. Expect a lot more Chinese and Indian Nobel prizes in the future. -- Alex Tabarrok
Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first. -- Hugo Chavez
Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too. -- Iqbal Quadir
Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries. -- Marq de Villiers
Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. -- Gary Shilling
A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive. -- Peter Drucker
Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest. -- Anderson Cooper
Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going. -- Thabo Mbeki
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries. -- Marshall McLuhan
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers. -- Peter Drucker
By a quirk of culture and history, it could be that China has arrived today where many other 'more developed countries' will arrive tomorrow. -- John Woodward
Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade. -- Peter Thiel
Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries. -- Bill Gates
I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available. -- Lee R. Raymond
The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold sway most of the time. -- Mahathir Mohamad
The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration. -- Gustavo Gutiérrez
The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration. -- Gustavo Gutiérrez
The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration. -- Gustavo Gutiérrez
What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States. -- Richard J. Foster
The First World became a popular phrase in about the 1970s and '80s. The World Bank then began categorizing countries in different categories, advanced to the least developed. -- Lee Kuan Yew
Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime. -- Jean Ziegler
Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty. -- Nelson Mandela
We acknowledge-now with President Obama-that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem we face with climate change. -- Hillary Clinton
Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries -- Henry A. Kissinger
The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate. -- Edward Snowden
I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted. -- Sean Penn

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