Repaying such debt has rendered poor countries even poorer.

In competition for FDI, poorer countries are relatively disadvantaged.

Meanwhile, the poor countries continued to grow poorer, and the rich countries continued to grow richer.

Of course, this share is even higher for the poorer countries, including the least developed countries.

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

However, in poorer countries, external assistance will continue to play a vital role.

Today, the international trade architecture is such that it adversely affects the poorer countries.

However, it is usually the poorer developing countries that are least preferred by TNCs.

This means that the poor countries are comparatively poorer today than 35 years ago.

Many mighty nations do not want to reallocate their military budgets to aid poorer countries.

Notably, with progressive liberalization, resources from international trade taxes, on which many poorer countries are highly dependent, dropped.

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But the poorer countries in Africa, the low income countries down here, there the rates fall faster, of the percentage infected, because people still die.

People were actually getting poorer than their parents, and sometimes even poorer than their grandparents had been.

71. In multilateral aid mechanisms, the views and concerns of the recipient countries, especially the poorer or weaker countries, should be fully taken into account and respected.

The Government of Belize accepts that trade has the potential to advance the prosperity of the poorer countries of the world.

Developing countries stand to gain the most from improving trade facilitation. The right support would help traders in poorer countries to compete and integrate into global supply chains.

United Nations statistics showed that poorer countries often paid a greater percentage of per capita income than richer countries, a percentage which often exceeded their ability to pay.

The current high price of imported energy, mainly hydrocarbons, is of concern for developed and developing countries, as well as countries with economies in transition, but places a particular strain on poorer countries.

During the Cold War, there had been a clear strategic imperative for rich countries to help the poorer countries in their sphere of influence, so as to build alliances.

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It has already been established that partnerships are essential for the poorer countries to meet the human rights obligations owed to their citizens.

How social development is financed, especially in poorer countries, is central to achieving the objective of improving social conditions, as highlighted at Copenhagen.

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.

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.

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With regard to the latter, the Special Unit will facilitate the creation of linkages between technology exchange centres in middle income countries and similar entities in poorer countries in the South.

The representative of Angola said that competition in liberalized economies assisted some developing countries in achieving high levels of development but made others poorer.

In addition to coverage disparities between countries and regions, there are significant inequities within countries clear rural urban disparities as well as coverage and service level disparities between richer and poorer households.

Within the third world, millions of people are moving from somewhat poorer to somewhat richer countries more than 2 million per year in Asia alone.

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Poverty would still be related to access to goods and services and therefore purchasing power or income, although the poverty line for some countries would be much higher than in other, poorer countries.

Some of the poorer countries that have had the most experience with H5N1 have built up stockpiles they're already expired. They are already out of date.

In the opinion of the Holy See, the scarce resources available should be directed towards the poorer countries and projects benefiting the poorest sectors of societies.

32. Certain recent developments, moreover, are of particular concern to the poorer among the developing countries, especially those in Africa, which aspire to diversify their economies.

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 need for more capacity building and technical assistance programs on counter terrorism so as to enhance the capabilities of poorer countries in addressing this complex issue.

Because of the polyvalence of the necessary infrastructure, electronic commerce can contribute to endowing poorer countries with important communications tools and equipment for education, health and government.

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.

Developing countries and countries with economies in transition are concerned with extending modern energy and transport services to their poorer citizens and solving more immediate human health problems caused by use of inefficient, outdated combustion technologies.

So the team that was the poorest had gotten even poorer.

The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer.