Post-Copenhagen greens need to reassess their relations with people in the developed countries as well.
Sir Paul said the developed countries had a responsibility to help those less well off.
Moreover, the benefits of globalization seem to be flowing disproportionately to the developed countries.
They all have faster growth rates and much less debt than the developed countries.
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Outside the developed countries and in markets like China there are greenfield opportunities for first time device sales.
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.
Researchers made projections for the US and the UK - two of the developed countries with the worst rates of obesity.
While still in the lead, the developed countries have also seen their share of scientific publications drop from 84% in 2002, to 75% in 2008.
It's not enough just for the developed countries to make changes.
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Under Kyoto, the developed countries committed to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions by varying amounts, which averaged out to a 5.2% reduction below 1990 emission levels.
These export-processing zones provided for duty-free entry and duty-free exit for export-oriented goods and helped in the transfer of technology and skill to the developed countries.
And poverty affected the developed countries too, said Mrs Brundtland.
India has developed a strong a Space program over 50 years, mostly by indigenous efforts (necessary, because cutting edge technology, was long denied to it by the developed countries, especially the US).
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Within the next four decades, most of the developed countries in East Asia, as well as Europe, will become veritable old-age homes: A third or more of their populations will be over 65.
"The developed countries must avoid a sterile triumphalism or a one-medicine-cures-all prescription, " Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting in Bangkok last week.
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.
Essentially you have a situation where the Kyoto Protocol and some of the subsequent accords called on the developed countries who were signatories to engage in some significant mitigation actions and also to help developing countries.
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The question of who gets paid what, and how, feeds back into the main issue in these and inevitable future talks: to what extent will obligations under the Kyoto protocol be extended beyond the developed countries to developing ones?
But it is still going to require more work and more confidence-building and greater trust between emerging countries, the least developed countries, and the developed countries before I think you are going to see another legally binding treaty signed.
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For sure there are still many people in the world who have never made a phone call or used a computer, but as the BRIC countries and others are brought into the modern world, the best chance for growth nowadays is outside the developed countries or to offer ongoing services.
Whereas the elderly in the most developed countries have clearly stated and effectively implanted policies to support them during their aging periods, the case is different in the developing and mid-developed countries.
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.
They provide the least developed countries with the tools for enhancing the quality of scientific research in keeping with rapid scientific advances.
Japan is one of the most developed countries is the world.
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Of the eight member countries, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and the Maldives come under the Least Developed Countries bloc while India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are in the Developing Country group.
The issue of how money from this "top tier" of countries can make its way to the least developed countries is a fraught one.
That is too late for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis), who both say talks must begin in January and conclude at the end of next year.
However, the cost of adaptation is already considered to represent between 5 and 10 per cent of the GDP of affected countries, which is a significant sum, especially for the economies of the least developed countries.
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