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Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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
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
Some remain great cities, but they shouldn't stand still. They should move in the direction of a knowledge-oriented society. Most cities have to do something to draw attention to themselves and make their particular assets visible on the international radar. I'm not talking about developing countries, but about the United States and Europe. -- Charles Landry
Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries. -- Carol Bellamy
Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade. -- Anna Lindh
A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries. -- Li Peng
The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries. -- Silvia Cartwright
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
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
In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country. -- Farah Diba
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
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. -- Kofi Annan
But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries? -- Tony Campolo
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
Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development. -- Maurice Strong
Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence. -- Scarlett Johansson
To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries. -- Anna Lindh
I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs. -- Emma Thompson
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
Of course, I didn't become an architect, but later on in Iran, I had a lot of contact and discussions with architects because Iran was developing, and I felt we shouldn't destroy the past and copy completely the West, which is the problem in developing countries. -- Farah Diba
Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem. Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed. -- Barbara Stocking
Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school. -- Karin Slaughter
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I want the voice of developing countries to be stronger. -- Li Keqiang
The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries. -- Leila Janah
Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general. -- Shakira
I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries. -- John Cameron
Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries. -- Marq de Villiers
Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries. -- Malala Yousafzai
In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs. -- Joseph Stiglitz
If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined. -- John Bruton
Political stability was at most a factor in assessing developing countries or Russia. It is now also an issue in Western democracies. -- Nicholas Bloom
Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give. -- Elizabeth Kolbert
Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does. -- Martin Khor
We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors. -- Anna Lindh
In 2008, when the global financial crisis struck, it was a bad year for a lot of developing countries, and it manifested itself in consumer confidence. -- Adi Godrej
Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards. -- Li Peng
The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and (especially) civil society. -- David Souter
Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power. -- Abdus Salam
At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies. -- Samina Baig
I am sympathetic to developing countries' concerns: because of our emissions it's their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it's their fields that turn to desert. -- John F. Kerry
Most developing countries would know Malaysia quite well. Why? It is because we believe in contacts. We offer them some help for training, for example. We call it 'technical cooperation'. -- Mahathir Mohamad
My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society. -- Annie Lennox
One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries. -- Harri Holkeri
The biggest problems are the damn national sectors of these developing countries. These countries think that they have the right to develop their resources as they see fit. They want to become powers. -- Thomas Lovejoy
We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road. -- Nicholas Negroponte
The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are more productive. More productive economies mean greater stability in developing countries and improved security in the West. -- Seth Berkley
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. -- Norman Borlaug
Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries. -- Kamla Persad-Bissessar
The impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries. It will therefore exacerbate inequalities in health status and access to adequate food, clean water and other resources. -- Rajendra K. Pachauri
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago -- Norman Borlaug
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. -- Norman Borlaug
Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large resource endowments provide a huge financial incentive for attempts to overthrow the government and seize power. -- Peter Singer
Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries. -- Michael Ignatieff
To set us on the right course we need to create more opportunities for trade, particularly in developing countries, and we need to adjust global trade rules to better meet the needs of entrepreneurs in the 21st century, -- Pascal Lamy
If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job. -- Susan George
Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations. -- Oscar Arias
...children born today-in both the industrialized world and developing countries-will live longer and be healthier, they will get more food, a better education, a higher standard of living, more leisure time and far more possibilities-without the global environment being destroyed. -- Bjorn Lomborg
In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Private companies from industrialized nations will seek cheap carbon credits for their country in the developing world. -- Jennifer Morgan
The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death. -- Mark Steyn
Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. -- Jared Diamond
The climate challenge illustrates how we have to change. The developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and use clean energy. Because if the current situation continues, then the world will not be able to handle this burden. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. -- Ron Wyden
The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing... is also a ticking time bomb of frustration... You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation. -- Ronan Farrow
If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries. -- Annie Lennox
All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, it's really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries. -- AnnaLynne McCord
A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7.7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty. -- Clive James
...99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly affect wealthy countries, the brunt of the impact is being borne by the poor, whose plight simply receives less attention. -- Rajendra K. Pachauri
I believe that without looking at each other as rivals or as competitors, in a democratic India, operating in the framework of an open economy, an open society has, I think, some significance for developing countries, not only in Asia but outside Asia. -- Manmohan Singh
In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order. -- Li Peng
..the planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich countries have done it in the past. We don't have enough natural resources, we don't have enough atmosphere. Clearly, something has to change. -- Mario J. Molina
You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it. -- Nicholas Negroponte
I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids. -- Marlee Matlin
I'm very proud that President [George W.] Bush took on AIDS relief. It was the largest single response by any country to a major international health crisis, and there are millions of people who are alive today in Africa and other developing countries because of that program. -- Condoleezza Rice
Each human life hypothetically saved by implementing these [radiation] regulations costs about $2.5 billion. Such costs are absurd and immoral, especially when compared to the costs of saving lives by immunization against measles, diphtheria and pertussis, which in developing countries range between $50 and $99 per one human life saved. -- Zbigniew Jaworowski
It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged. -- Martin Jacques
The international institutions go around the world preaching liberalization, and the developing countries see that means open up your markets to our commodities, but we aren't going to open our markets to your commodities. In the nineteenth century, they used gunboats. Now they use economic weapons and arm-twisting. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations. -- Amy Goodman
It is a simple fact of life on earth that there is going to be no successful mitigation of the climate change problem without a truly global effort. All developing companies or all major developing countries have to be part of that and accept substantial constraints on greenhouse gas emissions. -- Ross Garnaut
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries. -- James Surowiecki
Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost nothing on diseases that affect developing countries only. This is not surprising. Poor people cannot afford drugs, and drug companies make investments that yield the highest returns. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Big meetings and big talk are not enough in a world that is hungry for change. Big action - world leaders keeping their promises, and developing countries committing resources while listening ardently to the voice of the small farmer - is needed to bring big results and prosperity to the world's poor. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
The typical big Japanese company has somewhere between a third and 40 percent of its revenues coming from developing countries, and about a third of Japan's exports are also to the emerging countries, so in a strange way, Japan, which has very little internal growth, its big companies are a good way to play the emerging markets. -- Wilbur Ross
In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to the village. Or they are doing chores, preparing meals, farming. Some cultures think girls and women shouldn't be educated, and those are very often the places where the treatment of women and girls is the worst. -- Laura Bush
You cannot immunize sick, malnourished children and expect them to get away with it. You'll kill far more children than would have died from natural infection...It needs to be appreciated that children in developing countries are at a much greater risk of complications from vaccination and from mercury toxicity...because poor nutrition, parasitic and bacterial infections and low birth weight. -- Archie Kalokerinos
Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly significant role in the building up of the world's genetic resource base... As is already happening in my country, farmers and national genebanks in developing countries can work together to preserve and expand crop genetic diversity on behalf of all humanity. -- Melaku Worede
Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his superb classic Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets, he has surpassed even himself. He uniquely fills the gap between rich-country-obsessed macro- and micro-obsessed developing-country analysis. No student of the macroeconomics of development will henceforward be able to do without this book. -- William Easterly
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. -- Nelson Mandela
Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too. -- Iqbal Quadir
In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air. -- Jonathan Raban
Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries. -- Chris Patten
I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity. -- Rashid al-Ghannushi
It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world. -- P. Chidambaram
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. -- Karl Marx
I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy. -- Hugo Chavez
Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country. -- Trevor Manuel
Unfettered market American-style capitalism doesn't work. Developing countries can't afford that kind of luxury. They just can't afford it. Period. If there's a mistake, they can't afford to put out $2 trillion. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape. -- James Surowiecki
It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one. -- John F. Kerry
I think that for the developing world there are many versions of capitalism, and countries have to choose one that's appropriate. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries. -- Vladimir Putin
Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused. -- Mahathir Mohamad
Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves. -- Nicholas von Hoffman
As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology. -- William H. Calvin
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
Developing countries present a real opportunity for sustainable consumption. There, we can start from a clean slate and develop appropriate products and services that serve people's needs in a more efficient, integrated way. -- Paul Meyer

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