Developed countries should become more responsive to the requests for enhanced access to their markets.

According to an expert,33 the existing developed markets in finance, labour and capital in the developed economies are more the outcome than the cause of economic development.

Developed countries' markets must be opened to African producers.

Exports of least developed countries also enter duty free to the major developed country markets.

More recently, developing countries' providers have begun to expand into regional markets and started to compete successfully with their foreign counterparts from developed countries.

Among developed countries, only Japan and the United States are large markets.

While emerging markets are already significant and growing further, there is still a large potential to be tapped in developed country markets.

Still, we continue to suffer exclusion from developed countries markets for our various products.

The existence of highly developed capital markets encourages certain offences such as insider offences.

Africa's persistent demand for access to the markets of the developed countries should be met.

However, NTBs are encountered not only in developed country markets but also in developing countries.

In 2003, Canada opened its markets to virtually all products from the least developed countries.

More transparency in transport markets is also very important.

Some distribution markets have developed along vertical division lines, with specialized retailers and wholesalers around each product, for example in the brand name or automobile markets.

3. Furthermore, more than half of FDI entered countries (especially developed countries) through mergers and acquisitions, which could lead to concentrated markets and create scope for anti competitive practices by firms.

Developing country firms have also ventured into developed country markets, but this is a marginal phenomenon.

Overall, the markets of developed countries remain the largest outlet for exports from the developing economies.

A few countries have developed successful investment promotion strategies by positioning themselves as gateways to regional markets.

Africa and the least developed countries that face the threat of marginalization need free access to markets.

More and more countries in Latin America were receiving significant FDI inflows as the region s markets became more integrated.

How can we preach the virtues of free trade while denying least developed countries access to our markets?

Developing countries still suffer from the old problems of external debt and of protectionism in developed country markets.

Several other fish farms are being developed on an experimental basis to produce tilapia for international markets.6

New and more efficient methods must be developed.

It's good to let markets move resources to their more productive use.

Opening up markets in developed countries is certainly one way of striking a better balance in multilateral trade efforts.

Accordingly, the removal of quotas on textile imports in developed country markets will shift QIZ activities into other lines.

Urgent steps are needed to provide enhanced market access to major markets for products originating from least developed countries.

On the other hand, Africa apos s export expansion came to a halt in all major developed country markets.

Integrated approaches are more than ever being successfully developed.

We appeal to the developed countries to open their markets to the exports of developing countries and to guarantee free access, without quotas, to all exports of least developed countries.

Current Bosnia and Herzegovina legislation on protection of employment, as well as regulations on work contracts, are largely comparable, and to some point even more liberal, than labour markets in Slovenia or in other developed economies.

We are in the middle of a social and demographic shift that will both destroy and create consumer markets. The aging of developed markets is well known, but the latest data show that emerging markets are aging at an even faster pace.

The investment officer who covers the Japanese and Australian equity markets would become responsible for all developed Asian markets, with coverage expanded to Singapore and Hong Kong which are at present covered by the investment officer in charge of the emerging equity markets.

(a) Outsource a part of equity investments and utilize index tracking management in the developed markets for better risk control

A wide range of consumer services is being developed for entertainment markets as well as home banking and teleshopping services.

Finally, demands by customers and importers in developed country markets need not go as far as requesting ISO 14001 certification.

There is, however, more to regional integration than the offer of larger markets.

Finally, the more developed of the developing countries should make continuing efforts to assist the less developed countries.

I. Life expectancy at birth, world, more developed regions and less developed regions, 1950 1995, both sexes combined

As they gain more knowledge and experience of foreign markets, these SMEs are better able to succeed in the host markets through direct presence.

a Excluding Japan which is included in more developed regions.

The population of least developed countries will more than double by 2050, and will more than triple between 2005 and 2050 in 11 least developed countries.20

In more developed economies, such as the United States and Europe, many institutional investors who tend to be focused on long term fundamentals help stabilize stock markets. By contrast, the Chinese markets are dominated by retail investors, who are more likely to pursue short term gains and engage in momentum trading, thereby exacerbating volatility and creating a greater disconnect between equity prices and real economic growth.

Gregory, HJ and Weil, Gotshal Manges LLP (2001a). International Comparison of Corporate Governance Guidelines and Codes of Best Practices Developed Markets