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What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

Joseph Stiglitz

Knowledge Resources Gap Much

Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Money Challenges Corruption Problems

I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

Women Powerful Want Play

Globalisation has powered economic growth in developing countries such as China. Global logistics, low domestic production costs, and strong consumer demand have let the country develop strong export-based manufacturing, making the country the workshop of the world.

Growth World Strong Country

WTO is the only multilateral system in which developed and developing countries sit together at par.

Nirmala Sitharaman

Together Sit Only System

One of the most compelling arguments for encouraging the education of girls, particularly in developing countries, is this: Education enables jobs, jobs are a source of economic growth, and economic growth is a key to development and stability.

Education Growth Development Key

As demonstrated by the emergence of the Mexican swine flu in the U.S., infectious diseases have little respect for borders; helping developing countries detect and deal with their diseases is the surest way for us to protect ourselves from new and potentially devastating epidemics.

Respect Way New Mexican

I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

Malala Yousafzai

King College Students Excited

Considering the great benefits broadband connectivity can bring to individuals and businesses alike, it is crucial for developing countries - and underserved communities in developed countries - to help build out broadband infrastructure in an affordable manner.

Great Help Build Infrastructure

Big meetings and big talk are not enough in a world that is hungry for change. Big action - world leaders keeping their promises, and developing countries committing resources while listening ardently to the voice of the small farmer - is needed to bring big results and prosperity to the world's poor.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Change World Farmer Promises

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We cannot eliminate poverty without enabling developing countries to engage more people in economic activity that use natural resources, and we cannot resolve runaway climate change without creating wealth in a more equitable and less carbon intensive way.

Change People Climate Change Poverty

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

Agriculture India Africa Pakistan

Fast fashion, whilst having increased the accessibility of stylish clothes for millions, has unfortunately resulted in many horrific practises, such as child labour, that exploit millions of people around the world in poorer, developing countries. This something that has to change, and we can all start by reflecting on where our clothes come from.

Change People Fashion World

The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.

Environmental Problems Reflect Side

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Hope History People World

When developing countries go to the WTO and register their protest over things, they should be heard. Their views should be considered by the rich countries.

Mahathir Mohamad

Rich Go Things Over

I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries. I am an avid believer that education - and especially early childhood development - is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

Education Childhood I Am Children

Broadband connectivity can be a powerful catalyst as well as an anchor for economic and social advancement in developing countries. It creates jobs and business opportunities that lead to greater economic development.

Business Powerful Development Anchor

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

Music People World Think

Typhoon Haiyan showed the entire world how vulnerable the Philippines as well as other developing countries are to natural disasters.

Benigno Aquino III

World Natural Disasters How Natural

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

Today People World India

I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids.

Work Day Children World

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Sustainable Development Diet Right

While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.

Arancha Gonzalez

Poverty Tourism Driver While

If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Challenges World Internet Survive

Human security recognizes the importance of individuals and that the key to ensuring growth in developing countries is to foster individual talent and abilities, build self-reliance, and put people in a position to make a broader contribution to society. Growth must be inclusive, and no one must be left behind.

Growth People Talent Society

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