In relative terms, rich countries got even richer. There was growth in the poorer countries, too, but it was slower than rich country growth, and the discrepancy in prosperity between rich and poor countries increased.

That's very important in poorer countries, but not in the rich developed world.

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.

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

Today, in Sweden and other rich countries, people are using so many different machines.

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

Sustained rapid growth is the result of poorer countries catching up to rich countries productivity levels not of growth in the rich countries themselves. For most developing countries, this convergence gap is wider now than it has been at any time since the 1970 s.

The fact is, we have an enormous buffer in rich countries between ourselves and hunger.

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.

In this globalized and interconnected world, geographic barriers no longer protect us, nor can rich countries ignore the hardships suffered in the poorest countries.

The developing countries are not blaming rich and industrialized countries for everything that is wrong or unfulfilled.

Big countries, one of them is not so big, but it's rich.

Because of the rich countries' practice of subsidizing their export crops, many poor countries, including his own, had suffered enormous losses in export earnings.

In today s world, too, there is much that is not working well. While economic integration helped achieve a broader set of goals in Europe, elsewhere, economic globalization has contributed to widening the divide between rich and poor within countries and between rich and poor countries.

Pacific Island Forum countries have shown leadership in the conservation and management of the world's rich ocean resources.

The devastation caused by natural disasters affects all countries, rich and poor alike.

The employment in the rich countries will go down from about 800 to about 700 million of these people.

Hello governments of rich countries selling arms to governments of poor countries who can't even afford to give them food.

And in fact, if you see oil rich countries, where citizens are not yet empowered, the same thing goes Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, all sorts of countries.

Rich countries and international and multilateral agencies must have a moral obligation to assist.

Poor countries promised to refocus their development efforts while rich countries pledged to support them with finance, technology, and access to their markets. But, oddly, of the eight goals, only the last one deals with global partnership, or what rich countries can and should do.

Rich people increasingly populate the most expensive cities. Real GDP has been increasing at around 3 a year in advanced countries, and even faster recently in many emerging countries.

Historically, doing lots of backbreaking work is how countries have become rich. And being rich is how some people get the chance to do more pleasant work.

In that regard, the Monterrey Consensus was the starting point of the partnership for development between rich and poor countries.

The kids make up the names of the countries some are rich some are poor.

This shows you life expectancy against gross national income how rich countries are on average.

And that traditional approach to development had three key elements. First, transfer of resources from rich countries in the North to poorer countries in the South, accompanied by reform prescriptions.

Globalization in its current form has been partly blamed for the widening gap between rich and poor countries, as measured by the inequality of average incomes across countries.

And after all, poor countries, like rich countries, one thing we've got equal, is their days are the same length 24 hours.

Rich and poor countries alike share a responsibility to fight corruption and improve governance and accountability.

There are one billion people living in rich donor countries, and the total cost of comprehensive malaria control in Africa giving bed nets at no cost to all Africans, and providing the right medicines within every village is around 2.5 billion per year, or just 2.50 per citizen of the rich countries.

So long as developed countries do not fully liberalize their markets by reducing high tariffs and removing non tariff barriers to trade, developing countries will continue to face decreased access to markets in rich countries.

In high income countries, notably the US, Europe, and Japan, the biggest losers are workers who lack the education to compete effectively with low paid workers in developing countries. Hardest hit are workers in rich countries who lack a college education.

AIDS, he heard, was lethal, and treatment was not offered. This was at a time that treatment actually existed in rich countries.

How then can we not reaffirm our need for expertise and know how from the rich countries?

If current concerns about inequality were cast entirely in political terms, this inward looking focus would be understandable after all, citizens of poor countries cannot vote in rich ones. But the rhetoric of the inequality debate in rich countries betrays a moral certitude that conveniently ignores the billions of people elsewhere who are far worse off.

This pattern reflects the greater challenges of reaching the goals in poorer countries, and in poor communities in rich countries, which have very high initial levels of maternal, newborn and young child mortality and undernutrition.

Some developing country leaders may be displeased for another reason the figure of 100 billion in finance from rich countries does not appear in the legally binding body of the agreement. The rich countries did admit their moral responsibility to help small island states, for example, cope with loss and damages from sea level rise.

Rich countries should fund these efforts heavily, and they should be carried out in collaboration with poor countries and the private sector. Successful technological breakthroughs can provide stunning benefits for humanity.

It may seem strange to make middle income countries pay for their own bailout insurance, but it isn t. They have much more at stake in IMF policies than do rich countries.

Consequently, the many pledges made here by the rich countries must be delivered upon very quickly if we want to genuinely achieve the MDGs and ensure social peace in our countries.

If rich countries open their markets and export subsidies, then poor countries will have the chance to earn and trade their way out of poverty.

But migration should not be considered good or bad it is simply natural to the human condition. People migrate from poor countries, from middle income countries, and from rich countries.

Rich countries have long promised to increase their aid levels to 0.7 of national income (from around only 0.25 today). The promise of 0.7 means that the rich world would give developing countries a mere 70 cents out of each 100 of national income.