The poorer EU countries will suffer from this development.

So the EU must harmonize its policies with poorer countries.

Today, the international trade architecture is such that it adversely affects the poorer countries.

However, it is usually the poorer developing countries that are least preferred by TNCs.

Privatization also left poorer states and poorer communities especially vulnerable.

Sustained rapid growth is the result of poorer countries catching up to rich countries productivity levels not of growth in the rich countries themselves.

A shared sense of human solidarity is just as important to citizens of powerful countries as it is to poorer countries.

The fundamental idea behind a fiscal union is that poorer, less creditworthy countries can gain from joint debt liability with richer countries.

The right support would help traders in poorer countries to compete and integrate into global supply chains.

Notably, with progressive liberalization, resources from international trade taxes, on which many poorer countries are highly dependent, dropped.

But such a stance dooms prospects for a new global treaty, as developed countries will rightly insist that poorer countries be part of the solution.

In either case, it is an agenda favored by developed or rapidly emerging countries, which poorer economies cannot afford.

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To be sure, the issues are complex and difficult, especially those of financing adaptation and mitigation efforts in poorer countries.

That led to protests in many poorer countries, and to a political determination to extract additional gains from other commodity exports.

In poorer countries, women s access to paid labor is a better predictor of children s well being than the stability of marriage.

Faced with the erratic nature of agricultural markets, regulation is needed to soften the impact on poorer countries of volatile food prices.

In Africa, less corrupt countries like Ghana also have much better protection of civil liberties than more corruption prone countries like Chad and Ethiopia, which are also even poorer.

Currently, educational resources particularly tertiary educational resources (university) in many poorer countries are severely limited relative to wealthy countries, and, so far, the Internet and computers have exacerbated the differences.

Furthermore, decreased transportation costs and the breakup of vertical production chains in many sectors are facilitating poorer countries integration into the global economy.

But poorer countries, for which international capital markets remain off limits, have no alternative but to rely on the World Bank and IMF.

This is particularly important for poorer and smaller developing countries in which domestic consumption and investment is a poor substitute for global demand.

It has already been established that partnerships are essential for the poorer countries to meet the human rights obligations owed to their citizens.

How social development is financed, especially in poorer countries, is central to achieving the objective of improving social conditions, as highlighted at Copenhagen.

The public discourse is poorer for this.

With regard to the latter, the Special Unit will facilitate the creation of linkages between technology exchange centres in middle income countries and similar entities in poorer countries in the South.

In addition to coverage disparities between countries and regions, there are significant inequities within countries clear rural urban disparities as well as coverage and service level disparities between richer and poorer households.

As a result ... the poor got even poorer.

The Germans fear that such innovations would lead to a rise in domestic borrowing costs, and to direct and indirect fiscal transfers to poorer countries.

We think that capital from these countries is increasingly flowing not so much uphill to developed countries (as it did over the past five years), but rather around the hill to other emerging markets and poorer developing countries.

Some of the poorer countries that have had the most experience with H5N1 have built up stockpiles they're already expired. They are already out of date.

Here, too, mechanisms are needed for sharing new technologies and helping poorer countries pay for them in exchange for adopting policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

More dramatically, people in Austria, France, Japan, and Germany appear to be no happier than people in much poorer countries, like Brazil, Colombia, and the Philippines.

All of this would obviously lead to a dramatic increase in poverty around the world, but, as always, the poorer countries would be the hardest hit.

The report shows that since 2000, investors or state bodies in rich or emerging countries have bought more than 83 million hectares (more than 200 million acres) of agricultural land in poorer developing countries.

If we cut back on aid, we will fail to keep our promise, and poorer countries will learn, once again, that rich countries actions fall short of their inspiring rhetoric about reducing world poverty.

The tariff was bad economics it made America poorer.

When Asia grows, the West does not become poorer.

This pattern reflects the greater challenges of reaching the goals in poorer countries, and in poor communities in rich countries, which have very high initial levels of maternal, newborn and young child mortality and undernutrition.

After all, in a post economic crisis world of scarce public and private resources, disaster relief efforts, one might argue, should target only poorer countries and peoples.

In addition, some of the billions spent to subsidize Western farmers should now be spent to help poorer developing countries meet their basic food and energy needs.

It is a path that we desperately need them to choose, but one that also means greater negotiating power for poorer countries than we have ever seen.

Costs to US consumers are rising and making them feel poorer, not because they have become poorer, but because the previous pattern of global imbalances exaggerated their wealth.

Nor was it meant to be a system of redistribution from richer to poorer countries via cheaper borrowing for governments by means of common Eurobonds or outright fiscal transfers.

The new G 20 development agenda offers an excellent way to merge concerns about global imbalances with the need to accelerate the pace of development in the poorer countries.