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.

Since 1995, at least 67 countries carried out time use surveys. This includes 33 countries in the less developed regions

(c) Regions with many least developed countries

Most countries in the less developed regions, excluding the least developed countries, also conducted a census during the same period. However, only about half reported vital statistics from civil registration systems with 90 per cent or better coverage.

Overall global wealth has grown but is less and less evenly distributed within countries, within regions and in the world as a whole.

They developed national case studies, which give an overview of drought in these regions.

Concise country guidebooks and rapid screening tools have been developed in some countries and regions.

Furthermore, the growth rate in China s less developed eastern regions amounts to less than half of the national average. As a result, growth of industrial value added which contributes almost half of China s GDP is slowing even faster, from an average annual rate of 20 during China s boom years to less than 10 in 2010 2012 and just 7.8 in the first quarter of this year.

The regional lists were originally developed independently without much concern about specifications used in other regions.

That included the necessary transfer of advanced space technology by the more developed countries to the less developed, to bridge the gap between them.

Comparing the trend across different regions, while all regions more or less followed the same path of switching from core to non core measures, the change was most dramatic in Africa.

It is particularly encouraging to see initiatives in regions previously less active in the area of disaster risk reduction.

In West Asia and in most other regions, women also have less access to education, health and technologies than men.

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.

In the case of development groups, greater reporting of census data on school attendance was apparent among countries in more developed regions and the lowest among the least developed countries

All those factors continue to severely affect many developing countries, especially middle income and less developed countries.

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

The assaults of nature do not distinguish between the rich and the poor or the developed or less developed, in dealing devastating blows to human beings and infrastructure.

A number of regional and international processes have developed around different themes of sustainable forest management, reflecting particular priorities in specific regions.

Economic imbalances in particular made it impossible for less developed and poor countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

In addition, where consistent application by all registry systems is desirable but less critical, recommended practices are to be developed.

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

Some argue that developed countries cannot come up with such sums, particularly given their current economic challenges. But no one has so far argued that the cost of damage caused to the development prospects of poor countries and regions is less than the amount of compensation being offered to cover adjustment costs.

It also considered reports by developed country Parties on measures taken to assist in the preparation and implementation of action programmes of all regions.

But an important caveat is in order China has a vast interior that is far less developed than the coastal provinces.

Some training manuals were too long for daily use and concise country guidebooks and rapid screening tools had been developed in some countries and regions.

On the other hand, these SINTNCs are not as active in Europe and North America. Less than 20 per cent of them have a presence in both major regions and each of them has barely more than one subsidiary in these regions.

This policy, if implemented and extended to other regions as well, would play an important part in enabling people to live with less hardship and greater dignity.

In other parts, it doesn't. And then we have to be sensitive about how this technology can be developed and put into action in those regions.

Almost all countries in the more developed regions reported the number of deaths by cause, sex and age at least once during the period under consideration.

The COP is also requested to take into account that in most regions, the regional action programmes have developed priority themes in the form of networks.

In alternative development, UNODC has provided technical support in the key regions producing illicit drugs, developed and disseminated best practices and established partnerships with development agencies.

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.

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

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

Proportionately, tourism will grow faster in less developed countries than in developed economies over the next ten years, and there is a growing market interest in rural and activity tourism compared with staying in traditional resorts.

Taking into account the fact that the economically more developed countries are in a position to make relatively larger contributions and that the economically less developed countries have a relatively limited capacity to contribute towards such operations,

Taking into account the fact that the economically more developed countries are in a position to make relatively larger contributions and that the economically less developed countries have a relatively limited capacity to contribute towards such operations,

(c) Whereas the economically more developed countries are in a position to make relatively larger contributions to peacekeeping operations, the economically less developed countries have a relatively limited capacity to contribute towards peacekeeping operations involving heavy expenditures

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.

Compared with other countries in the region, the distribution services sector in Viet Nam is less developed and so are the regulations that govern it.

These policies would be developed through the technical and financial support of projects to implement integrated networks and foster an exchange of experiences from different regions of the country.

In most least developed countries, the poor are usually rural small scale subsistence farmers, as in sub Saharan Africa and other regions, or urban people engaged in the informal sector.

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.