Each of the developing regions experienced an increase in FDI inflows in 2004.

Not all developing regions have participated equally in the emergence of international investment flows.

Any proceeds are then used to send free books to developing countries and plant trees in the local area.

In all developing regions, however, foreign direct investment remained geographically concentrated.

Virtually all of South African investment in developing regions is in the rest of Africa.

Asia is the only developing region that has reached any significant broadband penetration.

Digital mapping technology is having the most profound impact on the world s most remote and undeveloped regions.

These multidimensional, scalable interventions help to bridge the gaps in developing regions.

In the rural areas of developing countries, forests and the forest industries may enhance employment and income generation.

Account must be taken of the specific characteristics of each region, especially developing regions, and information centres should be strengthened.

Population growth in developing regions especially Africa, India, and other parts of Asia needs to slow.

Basic indicators of economic and social development show SSA lagging far behind other developing areas.

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There is an outflow of capital from developing regions either to meet those rising costs or to be invested in the developed world, leaving those regions woefully short of capital for investment.

Latin America and the Caribbean are the second largest source of OFDI from developing regions.

Generally in developing countries, rural communities do not enjoy the same kinds of services in health and education as urban areas. Pakistan is no exception.

Since the 1990s, SSC has been strengthened by an increasing number of middle income countries in developing regions.

Like for example, applying the Internet, which is now ubiquitous, in the rural areas of China or in Africa, to bringing health information to developing areas of the world.

Fair trade is necessary to achieve this objective, since agricultural subsidies in developed countries distort world prices and hurt farmers in developing countries, thereby contributing to high rural poverty in the latter.

At IFAD, our starting point is always the three billion people who live in the rural areas of developing countries.

General description The lack of reliable and affordable energy services in the rural areas of developing countries is a key barrier to their development.

Nevertheless, as was the case in other developing countries, the process of global economic integration had had a disproportionately adverse on women in the region.

Despite the importance of remittances in some economies in the developing regions, there has been a dearth of systematic efforts to utilize those resources for development purposes and to generate investments.

The interlinkages can pose acute challenges for water and waste water management in arid and semi arid areas and also in small island developing States.

In fact, we encourage capacity building in developing countries in order to enable them to reap the benefit of fisheries within and beyond areas under their national jurisdiction.

In developing countries, accessible water and better transportation systems in rural areas can help women manage their time better.

Recent data on perceived corruption in public transactions show the SSA countries with the lowest average score for all developing regions.

How to bridge the gap in developing countries between secular, more or less Westernized urban elites and the rural poor is an old question.

Other severely affected population groups include women, the elderly and people living in small island developing states and other coastal regions, mega cities or mountainous areas.

The FAO Technical Cooperation Programme funded 13 national, regional and global field projects for rice and rice based systems in the various developing regions.

The recent spate of devastation caused by these natural disasters brings into sharper focus the extreme vulnerability of low lying coastal areas and small island developing States.

Instead of natural resources hurting competitiveness, in Latin America (and other developing countries) it is financial flows that are causing the illness.

Each year nearly 1.2 million people die and millions more are injured or disabled as a result of road crashes, mostly in urban areas of developing countries.

The rapid growth of trade in developing countries outpaced that of developed countries, largely because of China and India.2 Developing countries in all regions except South Asia experienced an increase of about 20 per cent or more in their exports of goods and services in 2004.

Over the next 15 years, the growth in the world population will be absorbed mainly by urban areas of developing countries, and the world's population will become more urban than rural.

However, while in developing locations the main purpose appears to be to exploit existing knowledge, which is generally second generation technology, in developed locations the main motivation is to enhance innovative capability by acquiring local knowledge and technology.

The countries most vulnerable to such changes small island developing States, coastal nations with large numbers of people living in low lying areas, and countries in the arid and semi arid tropics and subtropics are least able to protect themselves.

Production will move to new varieties and away from the tropics, implying even higher yields for developed countries, but slower growth in yields for developing countries.

According to the United Nations, in both developing and industrial countries, threats to health security are usually greater for poor people in rural areas, particularly children.

These flows, mainly foreign direct investment, are, however, concentrated in a few large developing countries, while flows to other regions have been in steady decline.

5. Also requests that the Institute, in the formulation of future programmes and projects, take into account the particular challenges facing women in developing and least developed countries in the different regions

Likewise, the development of bond markets has been gaining attention in a growing number of developing countries in all regions, though in many places bond markets are relatively new.

(d) Convening of an expert group meeting with the participation of GEO working groups to develop training manuals and to discuss best practices in IEA and reporting in developing regions

Access to natural resources and strong export orientation are among the factors that have often motivated multinational enterprises from developing countries to invest in other developing regions.

Assisting young men and women in finding employment opportunities is of great importance in many developing countries, in view of persisting high unemployment rates among the urban youth.