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Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.
Anna Lindh
Benefits
Reap
Must
Able
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Trade
Nonetheless
International
International Trade
The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.
Indira Gandhi
Environmental
Problems
Reflect
Side
Excessive
Developing
Developing Countries
Development
Environmental Problems
Countries
Effects
Inadequacy
Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.
Jared Diamond
Great
Coffee
Ways
Structure
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Without
Forest
Very
Effort
Goes
Much
Producers
Help
Pays
Pesticides
Grow
Starbucks
Twice
Competitors
Careful
Preserve
Globalisation has powered economic growth in developing countries such as China. Global logistics, low domestic production costs, and strong consumer demand have let the country develop strong export-based manufacturing, making the country the workshop of the world.
Ma Jun
World
Strong
Country
Logistics
Costs
Economic
Economic Growth
Consumer
Develop
Developing
Developing Countries
Powered
Demand
Countries
Global
Globalisation
Making
Domestic
China
Low
Production
Manufacturing
Workshop
Growth
If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
Ma Jun
Environmental
Quality
Win
Care
Will
Corners
Local
About
Only
Price
Suppliers
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Major
Contracts
Cut
Standards
Companies
Lured
Human security recognizes the importance of individuals and that the key to ensuring growth in developing countries is to foster individual talent and abilities, build self-reliance, and put people in a position to make a broader contribution to society. Growth must be inclusive, and no one must be left behind.
Shinzo Abe
People
Key
Build
Inclusive
Society
Broader
Ensuring
Security
Must
Ability
Individual
No-One
Put
Developing
Developing Countries
Individuals
Countries
Talent
Importance
Make
Self-Reliance
Left
Contribution
Behind
Human
Foster
Growth
Position
At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Fight
Corruption
World
Our
Collect
Systems
Recover
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Clients
Governance
Improve
Stolen
Bank
Taxes
Working
World Bank
Assets
For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.
Amitava Kumar
People
Radical
Distance
Projected
Liberation
Members
Some
Developing
Abstraction
Developing Countries
Countries
Particularly
Ideological
Comfortable
West
Left
Fantasies
Whom
Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity.
Anna Lindh
World
Markets
Must
Open
Developed
Developed Countries
Advanced
Developing
Support
Developing Countries
Developing World
Countries
Import
Capacity
Products
Export
We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.
Anna Lindh
Focus
National
Own
Increase
Must
More
Developing
Developing Countries
Between
Countries
Policies
Policy
Operational
Priorities
Regional
Much
Multilateral
Actor
Coherence
All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, it's really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries.
AnnaLynne McCord
Me
Travel
Animal
People
Cats
Animals
Too
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Because
Go
Overseas
Lot
Friends
Much
Really
Hard
Differently
Treated
My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.
Annie Lennox
Women
Society
Incredibly
State
Visiting
Bore
Brunt
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Obvious
Became
Stimulated
Issue
Many
Things
While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.
Arancha Gonzalez
Poverty
Driver
Tourism
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Major
Reduction
Often
While
In landlocked developing countries, geographical barriers to markets are unnecessarily accompanied by virtual ones: their e-connectivity rates are among the world's lowest.
Arancha Gonzalez
World
Virtual
Markets
Unnecessarily
Rates
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Geographical
Accompanied
Lowest
Barriers
Among
It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.
Brandon Stanton
You
People
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Talk
Tragedies
Different
Spectrum
I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.
Emma Thompson
People
Live
Think
Our
Way
Our Lives
Impacts
About
Point
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Like
Understand
How
Poor
Poor People
Asking
Engage
Lives
Building on our strong track record of supporting developing countries, including in areas like climate justice, human rights, gender and education, Ireland recognises that vulnerable communities need very considerable assistance in adapting to climate change.
Enda Kenny
Education
Justice
Change
Rights
Strong
Gender
Building
Human Rights
Adapting
Considerable
Our
Recognises
Record
Area
Developing
Developing Countries
Supporting
Countries
Like
Track
Track Record
Vulnerable
Climate
Climate Change
Ireland
Very
Human
Communities
Including
Assistance
Need
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries.
James Surowiecki
You
Together
Innovation
Poverty
Become
Fighting
Small
Economic
Entrepreneurs
Pursuits
Glamorous
Put
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Involves
Around
Making
Least
Chic
Normally
Just
Poor
Popular
Downright
Two
Loans
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.
James Surowiecki
Enormous
Developing
Developing Countries
Red
Countries
Red Tape
Deal
Tape
Often
Requiring
Businesses
Amount
We have made a full frontal attack on corruption. The question is whether we can address the question of governance in developing countries and, particularly, corruption.
James Wolfensohn
Corruption
Made
Address
Attack
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Particularly
Governance
Question
Whether
Full
It isn't only rich countries that suffer from the effects of tax havens. Developing countries also lose billions of dollars in tax revenues due each year because wealthy individuals and some companies use tax havens to move assets and income offshore.
Jose Angel Gurria
Year
Lose
Rich
Wealthy
Some
Haven
Only
Developing
Developing Countries
Individuals
Countries
Also
Because
Revenues
Due
Dollars
Effects
Offshore
Move
Tax
Tax Revenues
Rich Countries
Use
Companies
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Each
Income
Suffer
Each Year
Assets
What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.
Joseph Stiglitz
Knowledge
Resources
Developed
Developed Countries
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Much
Separates
Gap
To maximise global social welfare, policymakers should strongly encourage the diffusion of knowledge from developed to developing countries.
Joseph Stiglitz
Knowledge
Welfare
Diffusion
Strongly
Developed
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Global
Policymakers
Encourage
Social
Should
Social Welfare
Developing countries need to commit additional resources and have the political will to improve education.
Julia Gillard
Education
Political
Will
Additional
Resources
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Improve
Commit
Need
Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Democracy
Key
Creation
Related
Rules
Must
Component
Promotion
Developing
Developing Countries
Development
Countries
Prospects
Fair
Global
Instruments
Limited
Equitable
Governance
Crafting
Cannot
Enhance
I own a shameless number of ethnic necklaces acquired at local markets in developing countries or inherited from my grandmother. These have seen me through meetings in Davos and visits to refugee camps.
Leila Janah
Me
Seen
Own
Local
Meetings
Markets
Visits
Shameless
Through
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Camps
Refugee
Acquired
Grandmother
Ethnic
Inherited
Number
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