The World Bank has a project that studies the barriers to growth in less-developed countries.
"The appetite for Internet access is actually going to be more intense in less-developed countries, " says Bronfman.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
To tackle these diseases, we need holistic solutions, especially in countries with less-developed health-care systems.
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The Asus Foundation has financed green projects but mostly backs IT-related philanthropy, such as sending computers to less developed countries.
Agrimonde's authors suggest that by consuming 25% less in developed countries, developing regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, could increase consumption by 30%.
There is also growing optimism that Pakistan will get generous terms for rescheduling its debt with the Paris Club - a club of rich states which lend money to less developed countries.
Here the low price of petrol, much less than half of that in other developed countries, has predictably resulted in ever-larger and heavier vehicles that consume more fuel and road, and generate more pollution, than is necessary.
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