Less advanced regions.

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87. The right to development grew out of the economic inequality and the disadvantaged position of the underdeveloped countries.

However, the Group was pleased to note that 38 Member States, including six of the least developed countries, had made full payments and that 42 Member States, including five of the least developed countries, had made partial payments.

Multiple new locations for innovation are emerging, and even less developed clusters can still be sources of innovation.

It could typically be observed in technical cooperation projects in which more advanced countries dispatched experts to less advanced countries in order to provide advisory services.

However, the level of resources allocated to subprogramme 5 on LDCs was inadequate.

Hundreds of millions of people in developing economies, especially in the least developed countries (LDCs), depended on a just and fair globalization process.

Structural adjustment programmes have merely worsened the state of economic ruin of the underdeveloped countries.

It could use a little credit.

The amount still outstanding from the United States, however, stands at 1,280 million.

Economic development, security and social and economic justice had eluded the less developed countries, particularly those south of the Sahara.

Mozambique's vulnerability stemmed mainly from underdevelopment and the weakness of its national capacity.

These exceptions are with regard to reservation of quotas for persons belonging to the less developed areas of the country to speed up the development of those areas.

Globalization had posed many challenges to developing economies, especially Least Developed Countries (LDCs), such as Zambia.

Why this explosion of concern? After all, advanced countries have been losing manufacturing jobs to less developed countries for more than fifty years.

Many of the suspects are in less developed countries where judicial systems are under strain arising from the prosecution of their own accused.

There are however societal attitudes, which sometimes hinder women's access to healthcare in some remote and underdeveloped areas.

Of the 154 countries or areas in the more developed regions and the less developed regions, excluding the least developed countries, 134 reported statistics on population by sex and age at least once during the period 1995 2003.

19. His delegation was encouraged by the continued expansion of the economies of the developing countries and the positive achievements which had also taken place among least developed countries in Africa and Asia.

It was clear that technologies were becoming increasingly accessible, and less developed nations should therefore be kept informed of the possibilities.

The digital divide in terms of broadband has serious implications for enterprises in many less developed countries.

Primary schools upgraded to elementary level especially for girls in far flung areas and under developed districts.

Such differences necessitated a period of adaptation so as to enable less developed economies to integrate fully into regional trade agreements.

In order to achieve this, programs were carried out to implement the Presidential Instruction for Underdeveloped Villages in 1993 and the Partnership Business Development Credit that had been implemented.

In 1995, Africa s external debt totalled 328.9 billion of which approximately 45 per cent was owed to official bilateral sources, 30 per cent to official multilateral sources, and 25 per cent to commercial lenders.

Benin, a small African country which was a member of the group of least developed countries, fulfilled its financial obligations to the United Nations.

LDCs called for the opening of markets and the elimination of subsidies in sensitive products, like cotton for Benin, which could further help in the development of less advanced economies.

Many countries view fair and balanced globalization as presenting a great opportunity to emerge from poverty and underdevelopment.

As the Council noted during its mission to Haiti and as expressed in its report, poverty and unemployment are at the root of the serious crisis confronting the country.

There was an urgent need for an international consensus on the necessary strategies for reducing the debt of the most heavily indebted developing countries.

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In particular, measures should be instituted to ensure that less economically developed countries do not suffer losses from trade rules.

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The challenge for us will be how we can act collectively, based on unwavering political commitment at all levels, to address the needs of the developed and the underdeveloped to create a better life for all.

Small, less developed countries such as my own suffer more severely due to their weak infrastructure, limited resources and their inability to recover.

For developing countries, development is a basic condition for emerging from hunger, poverty, disease and underdevelopment, factors which place a heavy burden on their very limited budgets.

However, the Organization still owed large sums of money, particularly to African and other developing countries.

Kuwait also calls upon the developed countries to honour their previous commitments in offering aid and to consider substantial reduction in the debts owed by developing countries.

Known as quot work sites (to combat underdevelopment) quot , they remain an emergency social measure for combating unemployment.

ETOs will be disseminated in such a way that SMEs and Trade Points in less advanced regions can make the best possible use of them.

The system was used to test new approaches and innovative models allowing access to health care and biomedical services in remote and underdeveloped regions.

Further, the task force stresses the impact of migration flows on human rights, including the right to development, in terms of loss of human and social capital in developing and less developed countries.

While reaffirming its commitment, Benin called on development partners to contribute to the efforts that were being made by the developing countries, especially the countries of Africa and the least developed countries, and called on the developed countries to allocate 7 per cent of GNP to official development assistance.

All outstanding amounts, including those dating back many years, owed to developing countries should be paid as a matter of priority.