Housing for the Poor in Developing Countries

Poor countries need aid.

In 1992 the percentage of students of an age to study at universities (or colleges) in the poor countries was 2.78 in the poor countries, 11.29 in the middle income countries and 39.45 in the rich countries.

Fair Contracts for Poor Countries

In countries where poor health is common, labour productivity suffers.

The vast majority of refugees were concentrated in poor countries.

Moreover, poor countries lost substantial export income because of agricultural subsidies in the rich countries.

The Problem with Poor Countries GDP

E. The heavily indebted poor countries

The external debt of poor countries

So poor countries are by and large low trust countries.

82. In developing countries, children are disproportionately represented among the poor.

A. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative

Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative

The debilitating burden of debt experienced by developing countries must be eliminated or substantially alleviated to allow countries to invest in programmes to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in an environmentally sustainable manner, particularly in least developed countries, poor mountainous countries and heavily indebted poor countries.

Many conflicts erupt in poor countries with low levels of human capital.

Industrial development would certainly ease the great problems confronting poor countries, given its success in other countries.

In other words, the poor countries cannot benefit from globalization if the industrialized countries are not cooperative.

In general, remittances tend to benefit poor segments of the population in recipient countries.

Of the 41 countries identified as heavily indebted poor countries, 29 are least developed countries.

Progress under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative

We focus on poor countries with good policy.

Poor availability of technical support within many countries

This causes huge discrepancies in consumption rates between the peoples of rich countries and those of poor countries.

However, they are likely to differ in forest rich and forest poor countries.

Today, vast differences remain in reproductive health status between rich and poor countries.

He questioned the practicability of a policy in which the rich countries would invest so as to improve employment prospects in the poor countries and said that the high population growth rates in the poor countries were an obstacle to such policies.

In this case the poor and middle income countries have more boys than girls in education, while in the rich countries there are now more girls than boys.In the poor countries 20.63 of boys and 17.39 of girls are in secondary or middle school education.

There are countries up here which are very poor.

Heavily Indebted Poor Countries and the Millennium Development Goals

How to help poor countries. Foreign Affairs, July August.

Development is not only an obligation of poor countries.

Repaying such debt has rendered poor countries even poorer.

46. Despite recent progress of the international debt initiative, the external debt situation of poor countries still seriously constrains the development prospects of poor countries.

We need to ensure that development, in rich and poor countries alike, is sustainable.

The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Initiative was a step in the right direction.

The international community agreed to further reduce the debt burden of poor countries through the recent debt initiative for heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC), which was endorsed by the most industrialized countries at their annual summit in 1996.

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years.

Dr. Rosenfield said that the current maternal and neonatal death rates in poor countries were prevalent in Western countries a century ago.

13. Emphasizes the need to secure adequate funding for an overall financing plan for the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, including in particular the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Trust Fund and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Trust Fund in the context of fair, equitable and transparent burden sharing

Sri Lanka welcomed the recent initiatives of developed countries to address the debt of poor countries, and expressed its wish that the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative or similar mechanisms also be used to address the debt problem of some countries in the region.

A third crucial issue was debt relief for poor countries.

Natural disasters do not discriminate between rich and poor countries.

Poor countries will need major external financing to alleviate poverty.

In particular, the removal of agricultural subsidies paid to farmers in rich countries will have a tremendous and positive impact on development in poor countries.