(c) Underdevelopment is increasing.

However, underdevelopment is a different story.

Africa requires considerable outside assistance to tackle underdevelopment.

But I stress that underdevelopment is the foundation of it all.

Often, the root causes of conflict are poverty, hunger and underdevelopment.

Given the scourge of underdevelopment, we must act and act quickly.

There is no greater challenge facing humanity today than poverty and underdevelopment.

The brain drain and the cycle of underdevelopment continued, while developed countries thrived.

Mozambique's vulnerability stemmed mainly from underdevelopment and the weakness of its national capacity.

We are convinced that economic and social underdevelopment, poverty and misery breed international terrorism.

In most cases, poverty, socio economic and gender inequalities and underdevelopment are its root causes.

Address and combat Third World poverty and underdevelopment, convene an international conference to address it.

There was also a tendency to confuse symptoms of underdevelopment with conscious human rights violations.

The majority of the world's people today are in chains the chains of poverty and underdevelopment.

Poverty and underdevelopment were the root causes of the lack of food security in those countries.

The Government considered that chronic underdevelopment was ultimately the basic cause of the mass exodus phenomenon.

Fifty least developed countries (LDCs) are seemingly caught in a trap of underdevelopment, poverty and structural weaknesses.

Criminologists and development specialists agree that many social factors used to represent underdevelopment are correlates of crime.

We are all potential victims of scourges such as AIDS, environmental degradation, organized crime, terrorism and underdevelopment.

Many countries view fair and balanced globalization as presenting a great opportunity to emerge from poverty and underdevelopment.

The overstockpiling and underdevelopment equation is a sad reality, which, unfortunately, continues to drain many of our peoples.

Working towards the realization of the Millennium Development Goals provides an important opportunity to confront underdevelopment and corruption.

Known as quot work sites (to combat underdevelopment) quot , they remain an emergency social measure for combating unemployment.

The underdevelopment of various support services leads to their isolation, which has an additional effect on their psychological state.

Given the underdevelopment problems existing in Africa, this region should receive increased attention in future Trade and Development Reports.

Civilization which results from a culture of peace must tackle all of the manifestations of ignorance, oppression and underdevelopment.

Recognizing that underdevelopment and lack of capacity increase the vulnerability of Afghanistan to natural disasters and to harsh climate conditions,

In this respect, we must, together and in a united way, seek concerted solutions to the persistent problems of underdevelopment.

Many countries continued to face serious problems of underdevelopment, environmental pollution and impoverishment, which went far beyond their national borders.

China still has large areas of underdevelopment and per capita income is a better measure of the sophistication of the economy.

But the Goals have not been adequately achieved in Africa, which still has to deal with poverty, disease, underdevelopment and debt.

Firstly, the interrelationships between underdevelopment and the eruption of violent conflicts were fairly complex and therefore required multidimensional analysis and approaches.

All of the previous speakers had mentioned the external debt and debt servicing as one of the root causes of underdevelopment.

It is especially unacceptable that the principal agents of international cooperation trade and aid should be used as instruments to perpetuate underdevelopment.

Only by eradicating poverty, underdevelopment and epidemics, and by forgiving the crushing debt of developing countries, will collective well being be achieved.

And while we have identified underdevelopment and poverty as key enemies of stability, this realization is not yet adequately reflected in our actions.

Moreover, it has served to perpetuate the differences in living conditions between developed countries and those that are still struggling to emerge from underdevelopment.

The lesson from the tragic events in South East Asia and the east coast of Africa, however, is that underdevelopment remains a permanent threat.

The causes for this are technological underdevelopment, the restructuring and diminishing of production, and the lack of need for highly qualified and intellectual labour.

Development is considered as the most reliable basis for peace, and underdevelopment will lead to international tensions and an unreal need for military power.

At the same time there was a reluctance to address the root causes of such underdevelopment in the form of structural reforms for developing countries.

4. While it is true that underdevelopment must not be used as a justification for the sexual exploitation of children, neither should it be overlooked.

The urban poor in developing countries are at the interface between underdevelopment and industrialization, and their disease and mortality patterns reflect the problems of both.

He pleaded with the Organization to continue to adapt and equip itself to deal with the perennial problems and new manifestations of human insecurity and underdevelopment.

Of course, these are, as a rule, unfortunate people who have been abused by others, and the recruiters obviously do not feel the adversities of underdevelopment.