Countries like Brazil, Russia, India and China are still growing their economies at impressive rates as more developed countries remain stagnant.
In addition, financial statement disclosure and audit standards for corporate borrowers in the prc may not be comparable to those in more developed countries.
But it also points to a wider tendency in Brazil of employing people in menial jobs that, in more developed countries, do not even exist.
Chinese companies have a great potential to export to countries like Kenya and Tanzania where the per capita incomes, operating conditions and emission standards are closer to those in China than they are to those in more developed countries.
But the country's few safety activists perceive a deadly double standard, with automakers earning more money from selling cars that offer drivers fewer safeguards a worrisome gap for new middle-class households, whose surging spending power has outpaced consumer protections taken for granted in more developed countries.
However, their effect on growth in the more-developed countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development was statistically insignificant.
Spreading low-carbon technologies there matters as much or more than decarbonising developed countries.
That's many times more than in developed countries, where most potentially dangerous fake drugs are sold through rogue Internet pharmacies, but counterfeit drugs increasingly are getting into the supply of pharmacies and hospitals.
Developed countries generally have more cell phones than people, and countries like China, India and the Philippines are rapidly following suit with 75%, 77% and 92% of the population respectively having cell phones.
Actually, educational achievement by 15-year-olds in the UK compares more favourably with other developed countries than many might imagine.
America already taxes petrol far more lightly than other developed countries do.
What does it take to make people in developed countries more aware of these life-and-death issues happening in what can seem like distant parts of the world?
Hartley thinks one reason is that consumers in the emerging countries have more disposable income than the recession-laden developed countries.
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"The appetite for Internet access is actually going to be more intense in lesser-developed countries, " says Bronfman.
"The appetite for Internet access is actually going to be more intense in less-developed countries, " says Bronfman.
Total economic losses from weather-related disasters are higher in developed countries with more property and wealth at risk.
To get back in balance, the developed countries need more people making wealth and less shuffling it around.
Even if it was 80%, that is much lower than the 100% and more in most of the developed countries.
Of course, India increasingly is looking to embrace disruptive innovations to scale education and developed countries with more established education systems should take note.
However, several less developed countries maintain more widespread restrictions on encryption, including Belarus, Burma, China, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tunisia and Vietnam, the report said.
And as emerging countries have opened to international trade and foreign investment, their stockmarkets have rapidly become more correlated with those of developed countries.
The United States pays more in taxes than other developed countries.
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As of last week, fewer than a fifth of the 34 developed countries reported more activity, down from a third at the start of the year.
After mobile calls became more commonplace in a few developed countries, manufacturers added keyboards and larger screens, clearing the way for the SMS and mobile e-mail revolutions.
Until recently, Britain's distinctive approach to pensions a partnership between the state and the private sector was expected to deal with this change more effectively than most other developed countries.
Some 33% of children in developing countries suffer from moderate or severe growth problems, rising to more than 50% in the lesser-developed countries.
In general, developed countries rank as more expensive than developing ones because their wage costs are higher.
The bottom line is that enabling climate-neutral consumption in the developing world is vastly more important than reducing consumption in developed countries.
On the eve of the July G8 summit, due to be held in Genoa, he will be lobbying key developed countries to take more action on abolishing Third World debt.
More broadly, of all the developed countries, the U.S. puts the lowest priority on potential economic benefits when reviewing prospective immigrants, according to Pia Orrenius, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
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