The big losers from this economic disaster are workers in the advanced countries that bought into the laissez faire flexibility of American style capitalism.

c For details, see table 5 of the statistical annex (TD B WP 181 Add.2).

Developed countries

According to the same World Bank study only 30 of utilities globally, and only 50 of utilities in developed countries, generate sufficient revenue to cover operation, maintenance and partial capital costs.

Developed country Parties' reports

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2005) United States of America (2006)

Developed countries did not learn.

But developed countries differ from developing countries in an important way.

Many small developing countries also receive remittance flows that are significant as a share of GDP or in per capita terms Lebanon, Lesotho, Tajikistan and Tonga are examples.

Owing to globalization, developing countries had become more vulnerable to problems arising in the economies of developed industrial countries, which placed an additional burden of responsibility on the latter.

Prices in developing countries are usually lower than in the developed countries.

Developing countries have been participating in agreements with both developed and developing countries.

These are the most popular vehicles in most developed countries.

Significant differences persist between developed and developing countries.

Furthermore, joint missions to some developed country Parties were organized.

South Korea is hugely dependent on exports to advanced countries, Brazil much less so.

As part of their policy of scientific cooperation, the developed countries award fellowships to the nationals of African countries.

The position of developing countries is not conceptually different from that of developed countries.

Urges increased resource allocation by States Members of the United Nations, more particularly by the developed countries, and that developed countries reinforce peacekeeping contingents from the developing countries by contributing their own contingents

The onus is not on developed countries alone.

In developed countries, food retailing practices require a rethink.

But advanced countries will not emerge unscathed.

We hope that the developed countries will meet that timetable.

The United Nations could play a vital role in closing that gap, especially through the Department of Public Information.

At the time this synthesis was being prepared, 14 reports had been submitted by developed country Parties to the UNCCD secretariat.

The other approach would push towards negotiation and adoption of mutual recognition agreements (MRAs) between developed and developing countries, as is presently done among developed countries themselves.

He raised some issues regarding developing and developed country constituencies and how countries had dealt with them.

Recent events have disproved the notion that emerging nations had decoupled themselves from the advanced economies.

The developed countries declare a willingness to support the efforts undertaken by affected African country Parties.

Most emerging economies are still fragile and affected by what goes on in the advanced countries.

The most developed countries pursue agricultural policies that seriously exacerbate poverty in developing countries.

After all, banks remain deeply unpopular in all developed countries.

The most immediate threat is the slowdown in the advanced economies.

For the developed countries, the figure was 6 per cent.

Developed countries have played a prominent role in the implementation of the regional networks.

We appeal to those developed countries that are in a position to make a difference.

On many occasions, developed country Governments were the defendants.

If unemployment increased in developed countries, owing to the reduction of trade barriers and other concessions to developing countries, their priority would be to take care of the poorest sectors of their own society.

FDI represents a highly significant level of financial flows from developed to developing countries.

Development also required recognition by developed countries of the need for policy space and for assistance to developing countries.

As Lenin pointed out, financial capitalism is the highest form of capitalism that is, it is the end of capitalism.

She recalled the primary responsibility of developing countries for their own development and the responsibility of developed countries to support their efforts in that regard.

The financial and economic crisis is morphing into a sovereign debt crisis in advanced countries.

But this would ignore a fundamental asymmetry between advanced and emerging countries.

Quantitative easing in the advanced countries also raises a question of coordination.