Low income developing countries, particularly least developed countries, also face numerous supply side constraints.

Creditor developed countries should adopt the Trinidad and Tobago terms for low income countries.

Recognizing the urgent and specific needs of low income countries, in particular the least developed countries,

Low population countries cannot be characterized as particularly low income, even though almost one third are in the least developed group.

These reserves are mainly held in low risk and low yield government securities of developed countries, particularly of the United States of America.

Low population countries cannot be characterized as particularly low income, even though almost one third are in the quot least developed quot group.

However, low income and least developed countries need assistance in raising the floor to more acceptable levels.

We must prioritize the cancellation of the public debt of the heavily indebted poor countries, the least developed countries, and the low and medium income developing countries.

The least developed countries and other low income developing countries would require a greater share of external resources on a concessional and grant basis.

countries and developed countries

(c) Low income countries striving to attain the MDGs, but having poorly developed infrastructure and limited management or implementation capacity.

A case exists for the total or substantial cancellation of the debts of the least developed and low income countries.

Developed countries

22. Reaffirms the need for priority allocation of scarce grant resources to programmes and projects in low income countries, in particular the least developed countries

In that connection, the decisions taken by some developed countries with regard to certain categories of debt owed by the low income African countries were encouraging.

Welcoming the initiative of Malaysia to establish a Capacity Building Programme in the OIC Countries aimed at poverty alleviation in less developed and low income OIC countries

Debt relief should be treated as a source of financing for development, and the low income countries, in particular the least developed countries, must receive preferential treatment.

Economically developed countries

Least developed countries

Third, the sustainability of such transfers was uncertain, for the low rate of investment returns and low interest rates in developed countries and the comparatively strong growth and high interest rates in developing countries might be determinants of the increased financial flows to those countries.

192. Low growth prospects, and indeed poor social integration policies, in many countries have increased migration from the underdeveloped to the developed world.

For low income countries (LICs), a range to be fixed at between 85 and 91 per cent for least developed countries (LDCs) a fixed minimum of 60 per cent.

Developed countries, on their part, needed to scale up their aid to low income countries, as pledged in the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development.

This lack of funds to support interns has resulted in particularly low participation by students from developing countries (some 80 per cent of the interns come from developed countries).

Least Developed Countries Unit

1. LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

3. Least developed countries

Low profile disasters deserve greater attention, not only because they cause massive human suffering, but also because they impose heavy losses and set back development in low income and the least developed countries.

Regrettably, those efforts are being hampered by limited access to the markets of developed countries, low disbursements of development assistance and the debt burden.

Even in some developed countries there is no central collection of information, often because trafficking in endangered species is regarded as a low priority.

A total of DM 9 billion (9 billion deutsche mark) has so far been waived in the case of the least developed countries and other highly indebted low income countries.

7 UNCTAD, The Least Developed Countries, 2002 Report and The Least Developed Countries, 2004 Report.

So poor countries are by and large low trust countries.

By working together, countries could escape the trap of low productivity, low quality, low wages, low development return and adverse external conditionalities.

Migration is inevitably from less developed to more developed countries.

Life expectancy in the world s high income countries is now 78 years, while it is only 51 years in the least developed countries, and as low as 40 years in some AIDS ridden African countries.

Developed countries did not learn.

(x) The least developed countries

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BETWEEN DEVELOPING AND DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

B. Developed countries and organizations

The World Bank estimates that natural capital constitutes a quarter of total wealth in low income countries, compared to 3 in the highly developed economies.

The vocal music of the Franco Flemish School developed in the southern part of the Low Countries and was an important contribution to Renaissance culture.

Switzerland has an overwhelmingly private sector economy and low tax rates by Western World standards overall taxation is one of the smallest of developed countries.