Small and medium sized enterprises played a vital role in the development process in developing economies.

They live in the emerging megacities of the developing world.

Latin America has led the way among developing countries in the growth of the supermarket sector.

In the process of development, the developing countries have always understood and supported each other.

In change and development and growth.

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

A. Review of the progress in the development of the transit systems

Technologies developed in developing countries may be particularly suitable for application in other developing countries.

In developing countries, money laundering hampers or slows down economic development.

FDI is concentrated in only a few developing countries, and developing countries continue to be marginalized from global economic governance.

The country is ranked 121 out of 177 countries in terms of human development and is in the medium development bracket.

Those issues are at the heart of the development agenda established by the Millennium Development Goals.

85. Too often, the majority of those living in the developing world appear to be incidental to development rather than its focus.

Trade facilitation would continue to play a major role in the development process, but no developing country had yet identified development needs and priorities in the context of the WTO negotiations.

Land locked and Transit Developing Countries and Representatives of

Land locked and Transit Developing Countries

(c) Prioritizing environment in United Nations development assistance frameworks and national development processes, including poverty reduction strategy papers, in the context of United Nations Development Group governed processes.

A. Review of the progress in the development of transit systems in the land locked and

It is developed in the cultures.

In the negotiations, full consideration should be given to the level of development and the assimilation capacity of developing countries.

It was stated that this was due to the fact that 95 per cent of all disasters occurred in developing countries.

Developing countries, particularly in Africa, were faced with the risk of being marginalized in international trade.

Role of Urban Centres in Regional Development

In many developing countries, land mines presented a serious obstacle to social and economic development.

In the first place, they help finance development through programmes in developing countries.

In that context the developing countries were greatly concerned at the continuing decline in resources for development assistance.

The gap between the more advanced developing economies and the weaker ones is widening.

Although China was a developing country facing a multitude of difficulties and challenges on the road to development, it would nonetheless do its utmost to support and assist other developing countries in attaining more rapid development.

(b) The economic development of developing countries

The developing world now has all of the biggest cities, and they are developing three times faster than the developed countries, and nine times bigger.

The role of UNIDO in promoting the industrial development of developing countries should be strengthened.

SMEs have become essential actors in the development process in both developing countries and economies in transition.

In the modern globalized economy, industrial development was an essential requirement for the integration of developing countries into the mainstream of the world economy, thereby providing new opportunities for them to benefit from the enormous expansion of trade in manufactured goods.

In order to enhance the capacity of the developing countries in marine conservation and management, the developed countries should actively facilitate the transfer of marine technologies to the developing countries under fair and reasonable conditions, and the relevant international organizations should assist the developing countries in carrying out regional or multilateral cooperation, in securing appropriate international funding for marine research and development and in personnel training.

The gap between developed and developing countries continues to be impressive, although developing countries are slowly catching up.

The least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States all merited special attention in that regard.

Promoting an integrated approach to rural development in developing countries for poverty eradication and sustainable development

Ministerial declaration Promoting an integrated approach to rural development in developing countries for poverty eradication and sustainable development

The developed countries have committed themselves to complementing the national efforts of developing countries on population and development.

Least developed, land locked and island developing countries

The problem was emerging in both developed and developing countries.

On the contrary, ODA had declined even as the indebtedness of many developing countries, especially the poorest among them, had increased.

There was enormous scope for cooperation between UNIDO and developing countries in that endeavour, particularly in the field of information technology.

12. Mrs. BAI Yongjie (China) said that China attached great importance to the negotiations on the agenda for development the developing countries had taken the initiative concerning the agenda and had actively participated in the Ad Hoc Open ended Working Group on an Agenda for Development.

(e) Enhancing the role of trade in development