In the poorest countries, especially, women make up the fabric of society.

So, too, with child labour in poor countries.

For poorer countries, such concerns are dismissed as a rich world luxury.

Low income countries can develop democracy, but they have a tough time maintaining it.

This modest contribution would save 21,000 lives daily in the poor countries.

Because it is concentrated in poor countries, it seems, the world has shrugged.

This comes largely at the expense of small farmers and consumers, particularly the poor.

The figures show the chasm that exists between rich and poor countries where motherhood is concerned.

Poor countries achieve lower levels of corruption when civil rights are protected.

The right support would help traders in poorer countries to compete and integrate into global supply chains.

The truth, of course, is that aid is more stable than tax revenues in poor countries.

Migrants accustomed to conditions in successful economies are a potential nucleus for industrialization in poor societies.

But responses can actually make a huge difference in the poor countries. This is a proposal that has been talked about a lot in Europe.

The global energy and climate crises can be overcome if the world invests together to develop new energy technologies.

The best that can be said is that farm reform in rich countries would be a mixed blessing for the world s poor.

But there are hundreds of millions of rich people who live in poor countries, and they could also give.

The hunger crisis can be overcome in poor countries if they get help to grow more food.

Housewives in poor countries and in better off countries, too despair at the rising cost of feeding their families.

Smallpox was eradicated even in the most remote impoverished countries polio is well is on its way to eradication. Immunization campaigns, when properly funded, have reached huge proportions of very poor children.

Eliminating this subsidy would help 10 million poor cotton farmers in sub Saharan Africa.

Smallpox was eradicated even in the most remote impoverished countries polio is well is on its way to eradication.

Still, rich country drug purchasers, however, should not fear the worst there is no reason to believe that the drug prices they pay would rise just because drug companies agree to lower prices in poor countries.

As we enter a new era of sustainable development, impunity must turn to responsibility. Polluters must pay, whether in rich or poor countries.

And donor agencies often recruit the best local talent themselves, usually at salaries that distort the labor market. In some countries, doctors find it more remunerative to work as translators for foreign aid agencies than to treat poor patients.

In some countries, doctors find it more remunerative to work as translators for foreign aid agencies than to treat poor patients.

Polluters must pay, whether in rich or poor countries.

New antiretroviral medicines had been developed and were being used in rich countries, but were too expensive for the poorest.

Corruption undermines the quality of life for people around the world, not only in poor countries.

Mass migration from poor countries has created fear and xenophobia in richer countries, especially among the working class.

For innovation is what creates wealth and employment, despite or, rather because of competition from poor countries. And increased wealth in rich countries helps the poor by increasing demand for their goods.

To be sure, the issues are complex and difficult, especially those of financing adaptation and mitigation efforts in poorer countries.

If such criminal activity is to be stopped, the despair found in poor countries must be reduced.

And increased wealth in rich countries helps the poor by increasing demand for their goods.

NEW YORK Every year, millions of people die from preventable and treatable diseases, especially in poor countries.

Thus, while many AIDS patients in rich countries are kept alive by these drugs, millions of people in poor countries are dying before they should, leaving behind misery, millions of orphans, and economic devastation.

At the same time, there are 107 low and middle income economies in the world, with an average income per person of 1,090, and a combined population of 4.8 billion people, or 84 percent of the world s population.

The gap is actually a bit narrower than this, since the dollar price of goods is lower in poorer countries, so that each dollar of income buys more than in rich countries.

Unskilled laborers in poor nations do the kind of work that virtually no one in a developed country will do.

Indeed, agriculture remains the primary productive sector in the world s poorest countries, employing 65 of the working population and, on average, contributing more than 25 to GDP.

I am inclined to believe that the problem of malnutrition in poor countries has little to do with technology or development as such.

In poor countries, pregnant women often must fend for themselves they have no healthcare and nowhere to turn.

This raises another challenge of technological innovation we will need to support the transfer of proven technologies to poorer countries.

He recommended that G 20 surpluses be recycled to those countries, and to other poor countries, to finance such investments.

The last two decades have witnessed similarly sharp fertility declines in poor countries that are now showing solid signs of economic progress.

Respectable opponents of globalization avoid it in fear that they will be called racists or insensitive to the plight of the world's poorest.