However, significant differences remain among developing regions.

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

Moreover, we will support the inclusion of other developing countries from other regions, if that reflects the choice of those regions.

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

Similar exercises are under way for the other regions of the developing world.

UNODC would be developing in the coming period a sharper focus on specific regions.

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

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

He calls on all States and all regions to cooperate in developing the required strategies.

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

Table 2 presents the priorities and needs for adaptation in key vulnerable sectors in various developing regions.

The uses of aid differ in Africa as they do in other regions of the developing world.

Many regions in the developing world are making satisfactory progress in eliminating poverty and achieving the MDGs.

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.

Enhancing the guidelines to identify and more fully address the needs and circumstances of developing countries and regions

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

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.

That pioneering initiative brought together two regions of the developing world in a concrete demonstration of harmony of civilizations.

There is also a need to intensify economic cooperation within small island developing States regions, including through the pooling of resources.

In many developing regions, stock markets are assuming a larger role in resource mobilization, although the practice is not yet widespread.

Although it had bypassed several developing regions, especially sub Saharan Africa, the global decline in absolute poverty represented a significant achievement.

However, it was stated that attention should also be paid to outward investment from other developing regions such as West Asia.

Expresses the need to ensure an equitable distribution of resources among the developing country regions in the overall delivery of technical cooperation

Expresses the need to ensure a more equitable distribution of resources among the developing country regions in the overall delivery of technical cooperation

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

Not only has Africa remained commodity dependent, but it has fallen behind other developing regions of the world in exports of non fuel primary commodities.

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.

Expressing deep concern at the recent increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and associated natural disasters in some regions of the world and their substantial economic, social and environmental impacts, in particular upon developing countries in those regions,

The programme will be implemented in all developing regions and in the countries with economies in transition, as explained in greater detail in component C.9.

Forecasts to the year 2020 predict growth in tourism in all regions of the world, with the strongest relative growth occurring in parts of the developing world.

The ESCAP analysis shows that of the total intradeveloping country trade, more than two thirds originated from, and had its destination in, developing Asia, whose intraregional trade and trade with other developing regions grew faster than South South trade in general.

Such efforts serve to promote effective implementation of the Convention, for example by developing regional networks to strengthen national protection capacities and to promote universality in all regions.

The report also explained how the gap between developed and developing countries remains wide in both quantitative (number of users relative to population) and qualitative terms (bandwidth availability), even though some developing regions have recorded robust growth in the number of Internet users.

Nothing less than a massive effort will be needed in order to strengthen scientific and technological capacity in all regions of the world and, in particular, in developing countries.

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.

There is a strong case for global cooperation to increase these public investments in the developing economies, and especially in the world s poorest regions. These regions, including Sub Saharan Africa and Central Asia, are suffering harshly from the global crisis, owing to falling export earnings, remittances, and capital inflows.

Between April 2002 and 1 September 2004, 18 regional or sub regional seminars workshops on maritime security were held under this programme, covering all developing regions and countries in transition.

(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

Meeting once a year, IAPWG alternates its meeting venues between the developed regions on the one hand and the developing countries, and countries with economies in transition on the other.

Underlines the significance of developing an early warning system as a part of efforts to prevent and mitigate natural disaster particularly the disaster prone regions through international cooperation and partnership.

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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 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.

IAPWG meetings held every two years in the developing countries and the business seminars organized in the developing regions by the United Nations Procurement Division (UNPD) appear to have afforded opportunities for increased participation of recipient countries in the procurement business of the United Nations system.

To the extent that higher commodity prices benefit farmers in these regions, they will respond by increasing their production, which will eventually reduce scarcity, increase stocks to use ratios, and attenuate the higher prices. In fact, to the extent that developing countries permit higher prices to go to their farmers, the result could be a significant stimulus to economic growth in rural regions of developing countries where most of the world s poor live.