However, their effect on growth in the more-developed countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development was statistically insignificant.
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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Even if it was 80%, that is much lower than the 100% and more in most of the developed countries.
To get back in balance, the developed countries need more people making wealth and less shuffling it around.
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.
Some 33% of children in developing countries suffer from moderate or severe growth problems, rising to more than 50% in the lesser-developed countries.
Actually, educational achievement by 15-year-olds in the UK compares more favourably with other developed countries than many might imagine.
But the figures for the final quarter of last year actually show a decline for the first time in nearly four years for the OECD as a whole - which is nearly all the rich countries and a few of the more developed emerging economies.
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.
The divergence between education attainment and education achievement is more serious in developing countries than in developed countries as illustrated in the following example.
Nonetheless, NAM has called for a 25% corporate tax rate, which is more in line with the average for other developed countries.
Of the two countries, Kenya is considerably more developed than Tanzania.
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There are a heck of a lot of them - the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis) and the Least Developed Countries bloc (LDCs) have more than 70 members combined.
Alcohol consumption is the third biggest contributor to disease in developed countries and in the UK young people aged between 16 and 24 consume more than any other group.
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 bottom line is that enabling climate-neutral consumption in the developing world is vastly more important than reducing consumption in developed countries.
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.
We look forward to collaborating more closely with the Non-Aligned countries, which have developed strong expertise in preventing conflicts.
What is more likely holding back the U.K. is private-sector debt of more than 200% of GDP, one of the highest levels among developed countries.
Increasingly, social networks around cell phone technology will be more useful for much of the developing world, as well as many developed countries, where mobile technology is streaks ahead of wired internet.
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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"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.
Rainforest countries are not easily shamed on the issue, and developed ones are more concerned to get REDD moving.
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Were these countries to open themselves to the latest seeds--and even if more developed nations remained ideologically GMO-averse, thereby crimping exports--the four would reap productivity gains, dirt-poor Bangladesh most of all.
Dr Cazap says the main reason for this is that a number of Latin American countries are becoming more economically developed, which in turn is bringing rapid urbanisation and ageing populations.
With total production amounting to a five-figure number, from the spring of 2012 the further developed smart fortwo electric drive will start winning wide-ranging buyers in more than 30 countries for an innovative and forward-looking drive concept.
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Developed in Australia, the modified clay has been used in more than 150 lakes in 20 countries.
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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.
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