The global expansion that began last spring in less-developed nations is building steam everywhere.
Count on politicians and do-gooders to keep pushing plans for aiding the less-developed world.
The World Bank has a project that studies the barriers to growth in less-developed countries.
To tackle these diseases, we need holistic solutions, especially in countries with less-developed health-care systems.
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The next big thing for retailers in China will be the less-developed cities of the country's interior.
"The appetite for Internet access is actually going to be more intense in less-developed countries, " says Bronfman.
"There are two tiers, with more-developed on one and less-developed on the other, " Myanmar minister David Abel told Asiaweek in Hanoi.
Outside the lab, rescue workers in the less-developed world might use portable gene machines to trace bacteria or viruses causing waterborne epidemics.
Advertising expenditures rise faster than national income as less-developed nations catch up.
Women entrepreneurs in less-developed economies are more likely than men to be motivated by necessity, but the gap may be starting to close.
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Since such bases will, by design, be relatively austere, a premium will be placed on those platforms that can utilize less-developed infrastructures and facilities.
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Satellite telephones should also be useful in shipping and aviation, as well as in less-developed countries that lack either modern fixed-wire or wireless telephone infrastructures.
The risks are greatly magnified because all of the projected population increases will occur in less-developed regions that will have great difficulties in absorbing the changes.
When it comes to economic integration and exchanges, I am completely sympathetic to the fact that there are challenges around monetary policy in developed and less-developed countries.
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Across the Bosporus, on the city's less-developed Asian side, the sleek Sumahan--on the Water is like a vacation in the country, away from the European side's frenzy and traffic.
In such an economic environment, the up-front costs of environmental protection can appear daunting, particularly for officials in the less-developed interior of the country with far fewer economic resources.
Humans don't use animal power for agriculture much more, but oxen and horses are still harnessed for work in less-developed countries, particularly as poor farmers have to deal with increasing fuel prices.
The massive investments and rapid construction, however, have raised public concerns over the new service's safety record and commercial viability, amid state media reports of empty trains traveling between inconvenient new stations in less-developed provinces.
Bush has said he opposes the Kyoto treaty in part because it does not include less-developed countries that collectively are significant consumers of fossil fuels and because it could have a negative impact on the U.S. economy.
In the less-developed countries of South Asia and Southeast Asia family fortunes and homegrown foundations are taking on more of the causes that for decades were addressed by Western giants such as the Ford and Rockefeller foundations.
And wonderful, well-intentioned endeavors to build wells or latrines in less-developed communities often have only ephemeral benefit: there is no one to fix them after the college or church group leaves, with little more lasting relationship than a few snapshots and a meaningful story to tell.
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"Like a giant welfare cheat, Gorbachev is trying to muscle the Soviet Union to the head of the line for U.S. emergency assistance, pushing aside the more urgent and deserving needs of men, women, and children from some 40 less-developed countries in desperate economic straits, " said Jennifer J.
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The high-debt less-developed countries (LDCs) and developing countries would be justifiably angry in regarding this development as an effort by the OECD countries to tilt the international economic and financial playing field in favor of the Soviet Bloc -- leaving the LDCs and developing democracies even further out in the cold during the 1990's.
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The cost, especially for small amounts sent to nations with a less well-developed financial sector, can be as much as 20% of the sum, according to the World Bank.
Mr Shapiro also warns that physically small and less well-developed countries, such as South Korea and Vietnam, are more vulnerable because the effects of a pandemic will be more pervasive there.
Bank Austria and Raiffeisen have also been pushing hard into less developed south-eastern Europe, where margins but also credit risks are higher.
The inadequacies of Asia's capital markets, where corporate-bond markets are even less developed than stockmarkets, are the flipside of a dominant banking sector that intermediates four-fifths of the region's investment, compared with just a quarter in America.
The company has seen decreasing same-store sales in five of the last six years and has developed a reputation for less-than-stellar store quality.
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