Some countries, mainly developed countries make use of the Internet in conducting industrial surveys more efficiently.

More than two thirds of children in least developed countries received vitamin A supplements.

Urges increased resource allocation by States Members of the United Nations, more particularly by the developed countries, and that developed countries reinforce peacekeeping contingents from the developing countries by contributing their own contingents

Foreign direct investment from developing countries to other developing countries seems to be growing more rapidly than that from developed to developing countries.

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

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 the Millennium Summit, the developing countries have made total net transfers of more than 1,174.5 billion to the developed countries.

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

In addition, more detailed tables should be developed for countries in more advanced stages of development of environment statistics and accounting.

There are more suicides in developed individualistic countries than in any other part of the world.

Developing countries where policymakers are cognizant of these effects are more likely to close the knowledge gap that separates them from the more developed countries. Developed countries, meanwhile, have an opportunity to narrow the gap between average and best practices, and to avoid the danger of secular stagnation.

Indeed, consumption of antioxidant supplements in developed countries has become widespread. More than one third of adults in developed countries now ingest antioxidant pills, which is much easier than eating fruits and vegetables.

Developed countries

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

More specifically, in highly indebted countries and least developed countries (LDCs), the conviction that reform is needed does not always translate into concrete action.

There is no doubt that compared to more developed countries, ideas about the roles of men and women are more deeply held in Pakistan.

Women in Afghanistan are 60 times more likely than women in developed countries to die from pregnancy related conditions.

While most R D activities remain in developed countries, experts concluded that developing countries are becoming more important as both host and home countries of FDI in R D.

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

Also least developed countries.

Capacity building is an urgent need mentioned by more than half the countries (and also by the developed countries, the United Nations and other international organizations).

Trade as a proportion of national income is more important for many developing countries than for most large developed economies.

At the outset, it was recognized that that concept was more complex than a simple divide between developed and developing countries.

Particularly for developing countries and, even more so, least developed countries, such as mine, the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals is of equal, if not greater, importance.

Kyrgyzstan remains committed to the Monterey Consensus, whereby the developed countries will increase their development assistance and poor countries will adapt themselves to using that assistance more effectively.

Group of the Least Developed Countries (consideration of a draft resolution on the least developed countries and other matters)

Policies and strategies should be developed to provide more direct support for countries that decide to engage in overtly combating international terrorism.

Achieving ODA goals will require more developed countries to meet their commitments to reach the target of 0.7 per cent of GDP.

However, developed countries' trade barriers continued to harm developing countries.

But it is more prevalent in developing countries than in the developed world. The major exception is the US, where the ready availability of firearms contributes to one of the highest homicide rates and the highest gun homicide rate among developed countries.

Some experts called for more bilateral cooperation between relevant institutions in developing and developed countries with a view to fostering policy formulation and stronger innovation systems in countries concerned.

The countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) spend annually more on research and development than the economic output of the world's 61 least developed countries.

Owing to globalization, developing countries had become more vulnerable to problems arising in the economies of developed industrial countries, which placed an additional burden of responsibility on the latter.

As seen from table 7, the lower labour costs in developing countries and countries in transition more than offset lower labour productivity, resulting in production costs that are significantly lower in these countries than in developed countries.

Least Developed Countries Report, Geneva, UNCTAD.

a Excluding the least developed countries.

a Excluding the least developed countries.

a Excluding the least developed countries.

b Excluding the least developed countries.

b Excluding the least developed countries.

Conference on the Least Developed Countries

Group of the Least Developed Countries

The economies of the developing countries have been growing, on average, more rapidly than those of the developed countries and per capita incomes in developing countries have been rising, particularly in China and India.