| Despite this, the least developed countries still depend on trade for more of their income than rich countries. |
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| Nevertheless, those efforts fell far short of the goals that had been set to break the cycle of poverty in the least developed countries. |
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| Much more remained to be done to help least developed countries overcome the vicious cycle of poverty and misery. |
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| Afghanistan is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. |
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| The socio-economic conditions in least developed countries contributed to a large extent to the feminization of poverty. |
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| Delegations praised efforts to harmonize with UNDP, and heralded the singular focus on least developed countries. |
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| There we have an agreement to untie aid to the group of least developed countries. |
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| The least developed countries must make even greater efforts to build on their achievements and undertake bold new actions. |
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| This is a worrying trend, because it risks marginalizing the least developed countries and landlocked countries. |
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| We won't solve the climate challenge by targeting energy use in least developed countries. |
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| The least developed countries make hardly any contribution to climate change but have to suffer its gravest consequences. |
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| Forty-six least developed countries have designated national focal points and 41 prepared country reports in collaboration with other agencies. |
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| Despite recent progress, poverty remains pervasive in most of the least developed countries in the region. |
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| This film, often poignant, illustrates with talent the practices that destabilize farmers in the least developed countries. |
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| Thirty-four out of the 50 least developed countries were on the African continent, and thousands of people died each day in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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| Cancelling the debt of least developed countries would release resources that could be used to build productive capacity. |
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| The most recent data suggest that the impact of growth on poverty in the least developed countries was greater than previously surmised. |
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| We should be focusing also on trying to prevent the marginalization of the least developed countries. |
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| It was widely recognized that the recent rise in oil and food prices are severely affecting the economies of the least developed countries. |
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| However, this general trend did not apply to the sub-set of least developed countries, where the percentage of repeaters increased. |
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| Outside Africa, recent years have seen unrest in some least developed countries in Asia, as well as periodic resurgences of violence in Haiti. |
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| Similarly for the Services Sector, India calls for greater flexibility to be shown to developing and least developed countries. |
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| The EFA 2000 Assessment highlights that the challenge of education for all is greatest in sub-Saharan Africa, in South Asia, and in the least developed countries. |
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| However, developing and least developed countries were given flexibility to give ceiling bindings at rates which were higher than their existing applied and reduced rates. |
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| Consolidation generates economies of scale and boosts the development of isolated and least developed countries, while better enabling individual countries to manage the globalization process. |
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| He also wanted to know whether the least developed countries had the faintest chance of attaining Goal 1, namely, eliminating hunger and extreme poverty. |
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| Has published on trade and development issues, with special reference to small island developing States, least developed countries and export processing zones. |
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| The unfinished child survival and development agenda remains valid, not only in the least developed countries, but also in many areas within middle-income countries. |
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| The representative of the least developed countries wished the Committee to note that those countries encouraged Governments that had not yet done so to sign and ratify key international agreements on international migration. |
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| These are the 50 least developed countries, 34 of them in Africa. |
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| Despite those noteworthy efforts, extreme poverty appeared to be increasing in many of the least developed countries, while life expectancy was declining. |
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| I hope that this will provide an important reminder that the prevention of conflicts and efforts to help the least developed countries are very closely related. |
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| Within our collective responsibility, the effort should be distributed fairly among the richest and poorest countries, the emerging and least developed countries. |
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| Less than one third goes to the very least developed countries. |
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| The deteriorating social and economic condition of the least developed countries requires priority attention to the many international development commitments towards those countries which have not been met. |
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| Madagascar belongs to the group of least developed countries, according to the United Nations. |
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| The international community should help the least developed countries lay the foundations of a competitive economy in an increasingly liberalized global trading system. |
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| Nearly one-half of all children growing up in the least developed countries of the world are stunted in their physical and intellectual development, due to malnourishment, malnutrition, and diet supplement shortages. |
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| Furthermore, least developed countries need preferential access to clean technology, and there is a strong case for assisting them in technological leapfrogging towards clean technologies. |
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| We would go even further and propose that the graduation issue for least developed countries be put on ice and revisited under a reviewed formula. |
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| A global reflation strategy should contemplate supporting growth and development in countries with limited resources, including the least developed countries. |
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| This largely explains low life expectancy in least developed countries. |
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| The global food crisis highlighted the fact that the least developed countries face not only short-term but also potential long-term food shortage. |
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| In this instance, the digital revolution has enabled the least developed countries to leapfrog more advanced countries and avoid investing in land-based telephone systems and other obsolete technologies. |
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| However, the Group of 77 had acted in a high-handed and irresponsible manner and had created an unfortunate precedent by breaking the traditional consensus on the issue of least developed countries. |
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| Nowhere is this clearer than in a provision that is supposed to give the least developed countries almost duty-free access to developed countries' markets. |
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| Finally, this question does not specifically single out and refer to the issue of access to medicines in developing countries and least developed countries. |
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| The Group of Twenty is a self-appointed body, in which a huge portion of the world's population, those living in the developing and least developed countries, is not even represented. |
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| Moreover, trade between least developed and developing countries needs to be promoted, as such markets are often more closed off to exports from least developed countries than those of developed countries. |
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| In this connexion, the Board stressed the particular importance of the Organization's action on behalf of the least developed countries, which was the subject of reports by Professor Ki Zerbo, Mr. L. Sleeper and Mr. M. Dayal. |
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| The least developed countries needed the support of the international community as they strived to achieve macroeconomic stability, accelerate economic growth, improve living conditions for their people and eradicate poverty. |
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| Her delegation hoped that future negotiations would be based on the principles of transparency and inclusivity and that the needs of the developing and least developed countries would remain at the centre of the Doha Agenda. |
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| It constrains trade between countries, with the resulting consequences for growth and economic progress, and especially for the least developed countries. |
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| Qatar had always acted as a fully fledged partner in the efforts of the least developed countries, both to eliminate poverty and to obtain a more equitable share of the fruits of globalization. |
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| In our view, that purpose would be better served by establishing a global food bank and an international food fund, as proposed earlier by the least developed countries. |
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| Foreign direct investment to least developed countries has been miniscule. |
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| It was expected that, due to structural constraints which make the least developed countries more vulnerable to the crisis than others, the magnitudes of the adverse macroeconomic impacts would be substantial. |
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| Kenya is usually classified as a frontier market or occasionally an emerging market, but it is not one of the least developed countries. |
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| The term Third World is still largely used interchangeably with the least developed countries, the Global South and developing countries. |
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| Many critics argued that the agreement would threaten protection of human rights, labor and environmental standards, and the least developed countries. |
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| It is our intention to continue to augment our development cooperation initiatives with developing countries in general and Least Developed Countries in particular. |
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