But they still find use in less developed countries, and there are even scythe enthusiasts and competitions throughout Europe and North America.
But in less developed countries, the promise of cheaper calls may be outweighed by the desire to protect the revenues of state-owned incumbents.
This bleak message resonates with what ordinary people in less developed countries would say about reform: Eradicating corruption will be a difficult task indeed.
Proposals put forth by ETNO would harm Internet users in less developed countries, depriving them of a full range of online tools and knowledge because large companies may be reluctant to pay for them to receive access.
Covering all regions of the world, these projects allow for the implementation of prevention programmes, the formulation of specific legislation against doping and the implementation of activities that strengthen capacities to fight against doping, especially in less developed countries.
Global warming may bring its own set of issues for future supply chains if it results in more flooding of low lying areas (as well as greater exposure to damage from tsunamis) in less developed countries that are prime candidates for future production.
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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.
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.
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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Agrimonde's authors suggest that by consuming 25% less in developed countries, developing regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, could increase consumption by 30%.
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.
The irony is inescapable and the story a familiar one, as the developed world again turns to the less developed countries in hopes of powering their economies.
It is also crucial that other less developed countries, particularly those in Latin America, not be victimized by blatant preferential treatment accorded reforming East European countries when the former are, in several cases, in equally desperate financial need and at least as firmly set on a course of painful economic sacrifice.
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To tackle these diseases, we need holistic solutions, especially in countries with less-developed health-care systems.
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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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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.
Whereas in developed countries sometimes we can be less aware of the global issues.
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 developed countries, we spend two or three times less on food as a percentage of our income as do people in developing countries.
To get back in balance, the developed countries need more people making wealth and less shuffling it around.
But in most developed countries, the need for a safety net seems much less.
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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