After learning that many girls in some developing nations don't get birth certificates, and therefore aren't counted, "I helped girls in developing nations get birth certificates," said Guyon, age 14.
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" "Developing nations have no historical responsibility for climate change.
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But nowadays, developing nations don't have to create entire industries.
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But in developing nations, these resources aren't always readily available.
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It's a familiar narrative for a lot of developing nations.
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The Case for Relaunching the Mercantile Economy in Developing Nations.
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Vietnam has been one of the fastest growing developing nations.
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In developing nations, this number can be as high as 2100%.
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"As developing nations get wealthier, they eat more meat," Green adds.
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For people in developing nations, science represents a pathway to empowerment.
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But developing nations such as Kenya don't have organised waste collection.
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But developing nations such as Kenya don't have organized waste collection.
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So Chinese companies have begun buying donkey skins from developing nations.
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Chile is an example of how trade makes developing nations prosper.
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Although it's not stated explicitly, this refers to people in developing nations.
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Developing nations that previously relied on petrodollars for financing are now hurting.
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From developing nations to rich countries, people are taking to the streets.
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Almost all of those women — a staggering 99% — live in developing nations.
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The last 20 years the globalization was helping big companies, developing nations.
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More than 500,000 children in developing nations die of malaria every year.
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The majority of those deaths — a staggering 99% — occur in developing nations.
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Air pollution has significant effects on life expectancy, especially in developing nations.
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Large developing nations, including China, also pledge reductions, though they are voluntary.
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Other developing nations, such as Brazil and Pakistan, have made similar arguments.
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In new and developing nations, things are much worse, the commission says.
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It also increases the cost of borrowing and servicing debt for developing nations.
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In developing nations, where infrastructure is far more limited, drones offer lifesaving potential.
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Eighty percent of displaced people in the world are hosted in developing nations.
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Lunapads works to provide reusable, washable cloth pads to girls in developing nations.
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"That logic relied on a misunderstanding of what motivates developing nations," he writes.
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By contrast, countries like China have argued for looser scrutiny for developing nations.
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But China and other developing nations have ramped up output in recent years.
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Money often flows into developing nations that could use an infusion of cash.
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This mix of family and state-linked businesses still exists in many developing nations.
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To get into the global value chain, developing nations need to accept foreign investment.
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Our challenges as developing nations are specific, but the consequences of failure are universal.
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Unsanitary birthing conditions are a major source of complications for mothers in developing nations.
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Developing nations currently host 86 percent of refugees, according to the U.N. and Unicef.
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This trend towards premature deindustrialisation is "not good news for developing nations", he notes.
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Neopenda is a hat designed to support infant health and survival in developing nations.
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Among developing nations, India has been under the greatest pressure to sign a deal.
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It can be especially devastating in developing nations, where nutritional needs are often unmet.
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It's not just developing nations that are at risk of opportunistic climate-fueled authoritarianism.
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Developing nations considering democratic reforms, striving to reduce income inequality find this question timely.
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When compared to other developed and developing nations, we are actually doing rather well.
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In developing nations without ready access to electricity, life expectancies are 20 years shorter.
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Religion plays a determining role in fertility rates in both developed and developing nations.
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"A perfect storm is brewing in the low-latitude developing nations," the authors write.
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The fair-trade label was created decades ago to help artisans in developing nations.
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In 2015, developing nations housed 86 percent of the world's refugees — 13.9 million people.
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And developing nations may be unable, or unwilling, to accurately report pandemic-related deaths.
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The goal of the production caps is to shrink crude inventories in developing nations.
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For decades, developing nations have been allowed to pay lower rates than wealthier nations.
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He said that China is "blazing a new trail" for developing nations to follow.
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China and other developing nations have turned to LNG as a cleaner alternative to coal.
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Developing nations went from an estimated 7.7 percent to 45.3 percent in the same timeframe.
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The fund has a portfolio of 93 projects in developing nations worth about $4.6 billion.
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Still, we are shunning coal at a much slower rate than many other developing nations.
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This may give incentive to developing nations and tech industries to devote resources towards sciences.
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We often hear that in some developing nations, Facebook is synonymous with the internet itself.
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The aim is to foster trade and economic development between the U.S. and developing nations.
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All donations received go directly to funding freshwater wells in impoverished communities and developing nations.
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In developing nations, milk is an important source of income and nutrition for poor families.
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Discussed prior effort to twice pass Africa AIDS assistance & future security in developing nations pic.twitter.
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In rich countries the debate is practically over; in developing nations the liberals are winning.
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Western countries have been sending their recycling to developing nations in Southeast Asia for decades.
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Whether the privacy backlash spills over into developing nations will be an issue to monitor.
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In that deal, leading and developing nations agreed to take steps to fight climate change.
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China presents developing nations with an option besides the U.S. for importing and exporting goods.
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But China's government has its own large policy banks dedicated to lending to developing nations.
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Nearly all live in developing nations, where poverty and conflicts over limited resources are rampant.
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Much better, he's said, to focus lending on developing nations who cannot secure capital elsewhere.
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Many top urban destinations, particularly in developing nations, have been recognized for unhealthy smog conditions.
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In some cases, the West may be hurting, not helping, the health of developing nations.
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He then served three years as chairman of South Centre, which conducts research for developing nations.
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"Ninety-five percent of shrimp are exported from developing nations and not consumed there," Quarto said.
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This bodes well for access to the technology in developing nations, where resources can be scarce.
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Construction of office towers, bridges, airports and highways is booming in developing nations across the world.
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Many children in developing nations, however, don't have access to desks inside or outside the classroom.
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Facebook promotes Free Basics as a bridge to the wider internet for consumers in developing nations.
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Check out these eight apps and mobile-based services that are revolutionizing care in developing nations.
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But real wage growth has been flat in developed countries and largely capped in developing nations.
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This is particularly important for developing nations that might not have access to highly experienced growers.
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But the agriculture sector sustains more than a fifth of disaster-related losses in developing nations.
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There are at least 50 countries -- many developing nations -- whose economies are growing faster than California's.
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Zack Beauchamp: How important is trade for economic growth, and thus poverty reduction, in developing nations?
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Those five colors are commonly recognized in dozens of languages in developed and developing nations alike.
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That spells bad news for developing nations – notably those in Africa – whose success depends on exports.
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Other developing nations' leaders from Pakistan to Madagascar also paid homage to China at the event.
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But that can be difficult, especially in developing nations without the resources to improve their farming.
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The situation is not much different in other developing nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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That could be set to change, however, with today's developing nations primed to lead the charge.
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We should not be surprised to see this happening today, in developing nations and mature democracies.
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Facebook's data-conserving version of Messenger is no longer just for developing nations with slow networks.
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Women also make up a large part of the agricultural work forces in many developing nations.
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Beijing basically replicated its traditional state-owned enterprises (SOE) model in other developing nations, Hu said.
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Charity: water is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring clean water to developing nations.
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The International Monetary Fund often has to badger developing nations to bulk up foreign currency reserves.
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Notably, ARPU in the Rest of World region of developing nations nearly doubled from $21.3 to $43.
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Facebook is a dominant source for information in the country, as it is in many developing nations.
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Since U.S. policy was to help developing nations embrace the free market, we were happy to help.
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The start of the year is normally a busy time for sovereign debt issuers, especially developing nations.
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High rates of child marriage set the stage for many reproductive health issues, especially in developing nations.
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After my father retired, he donated his services as an accountant to developing nations for three years.
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It could offer a compelling alternative to the existing banking system, particularly for people in developing nations.
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Still, South Africa's vast mineral wealth makes it a valuable ally to the other major developing nations.
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Primarily in developing nations, it may cause chronic diarrhea in people with HIV and other immunocompromised patients.
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The EITI initiative was primarily aimed at developing nations and most of its members are in Africa.
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Trump is headed to Germany later this week to attend the summit of rich and developing nations.
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"This proves the long-term sustainability of efforts to provide AIDS treatment in developing nations," she added.
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This partnership spurred many other developing nations, such as India, to join the Paris accord as well.
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Among developing nations, countries that have proven models for mobilizing investment are still the exception, said Carafa.
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This means investing in re-gasification terminals in developing nations, along with associated pipeline infrastructure and storages.
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Pop singer Rihanna is teaming up with French President Emmanuel Macron to improve education in developing nations.
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Failed states like Venezuela, and developing nations like Mozambique and Myanmar, earned higher marks in this regard.
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But the types of jobs most likely to be eliminated entirely are more prevalent in developing nations.
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"China is already one of the most open developing nations," spokesman Lu Kang told a regular news briefing.
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Fairtrade, a non profit, aims to push for a better deal for farmers and workers in developing nations.
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Private sector investments in developing nations in areas such as solar and wind power were booming, he said.
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Naimi insisted the oil industry was a "force for good," providing fuels for economic growth in developing nations.
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The biggest trends in their findings lay in the differences between cities in developing nations versus developed ones.
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The findings could guide other developing nations seeking ways to clean up vital freshwater resources, he told Reuters.
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They've also pointed out the working conditions in developing nations where most of the company's products are manufactured.
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Growth spurts are especially a challenge in developing nations, where money for worn or outgrown items is scarce.
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Brandon Wu, ActionAid USA policy director, said he hoped the Ethiopia decision would not deter other developing nations.
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Data was therefore largely collected from relatively wealthy people, though smartphones are gaining popularity even in developing nations.
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Now these viruses, once foreign to the Americas, pose a substantial concern for developing nations in the region.
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But beneath the big money headlines is an underbelly of exploitation of youngsters from developing nations, experts say.
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Developing nations would also get financial support from nations led by the United States and the European Union.
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That becomes particularly problematic when those beaches belong to developing nations that don't have adequate waste management systems.
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As US adoptive families increasingly began looking abroad, many developing nations began to scale back their adoption programs.
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For developing nations that can't afford to lose out on foreign investments, it often isn't worth the risk.
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Developing nations, donor governments, international institutions and non-governmental organizations will participate, sharing and coordinating knowledge and support.
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This fund is just a helping hand that will guide developing nations to take the proper first steps.
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Let's also eliminate US consulates, embassies, military assistance to allies, aid to developing nations, and international peacekeeping efforts.
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People with disabilities are hit particularly hard by disaster, often lacking access to relief services — especially in developing nations.
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People who don't have access to water in developing nations use them to haul and store their drinking water.
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Stocks across developing nations pulled in $18 billion in January, $9.2 billion of which went into China, it added.
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The 1.5C limit is favored especially by developing nations most at risk from disruptions to food and water supplies.
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SunFarmer is a non-profit that uses initial donations to establish sustainable solar companies in developing nations like Nepal.
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The deals also lead to a transfer of technology into developing nations making local farms more efficient, backers say.
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Automation has left workers in developing nations without employment, the report notes, and the U.S. faces the same prospect.
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It has groups including Doctors without Borders very worried, saying developing nations in the TPP would be particularly vulnerable.
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The 1.5C limit is favored especially by developing nations most at risk from disruptions to food and water supplies.
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The Paris Club, which was created in 1956, helps provide repayment solutions to developing nations with chronic debt problems.
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It found that trade among developing nations - known as "South-South" trade - more than doubled between 2004 and 2011.
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In its present form, the measure would, in fact, exempt many small and developing nations with relatively small airlines.
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When infants in developing nations are incapable of nursing, they're often in danger of severe malnutrition or even death.
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Moreover, rates of mobile internet access are growing much faster than desktop access in India, like other developing nations.
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OLPC created a low-cost green laptop and gave them away to the world's poorest children in developing nations.
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Deindustrialization, which has been occurring for decades in advanced economies, has accelerated in developing nations, Aden told VICE News.
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Women in wealthy countries are breastfeeding more, and most of the formula industry's growth is coming from developing nations.
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Western food companies, seeing slower growth, are aggressively expanding in developing nations, contributing to obesity and other health problems.
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Throughout the 1960s, Cuba began using its doctors as a diplomatic tool in building allyship with other developing nations.
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The populations most vulnerable to food and water shortages are centered in developing nations in Africa and South Asia.
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Developing nations bought $65 billion in weapons in 33, substantially lower than the previous year's total of $79 billion.
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The majority are hosted by poor or developing nations who cannot provide for them without assistance from rich nations.
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In fact, it took a lot of time for the internet to reach many of the world's developing nations.
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And the need for improved maternal health care in developing nations is an issue in dire need of global attention.
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As technology improves, it is helping retool developing nations' arsenals with modern gadgets, such as GPS guidance and automated systems.
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Only about 45 percent of people with hypertension in developing nations are aware of their condition, according to the study.
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Without reliable health records, which are a rarity in developing nations, making medical decisions for patients is inefficient and risky.
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Other researchers have already determined that "nightlights," or artificial light pollution, can be indicative of economic activity in developing nations.
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Critics complained that Free Basics created a two-tiered internet, further exacerbating the digital divide between developed and developing nations.
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Many women in developing nations around the world are still fighting for something far more basic: the right to exist.
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"The U.S. geopolitical interest in slowing the progress of Chinese influence over developing nations has been achieved," Ng's lawyers wrote.
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Gates said richer countries must help developing nations tackle disease, both for humanitarian reasons and for their own self-interest.
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The company says its new collaboration with Worldreader will see Amazon donating thousands of Kindle e-readers to developing nations.
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Countries around the world — particularly China and developing nations — see the benefits and are poised to increase their nuclear production.
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SIPRI said that it is concerned both superpowers and developing nations will continue to spend more on arms next year.
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Those of us living in developing nations in the global South know that we are disproportionately impacted by climate change.
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In pursuing returns, are shareholders putting pressure on executives to slash costs by exporting good-paying jobs to developing nations?
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Developing nations were hoping for more robust promises on climate aid, but that issue has been postponed for future talks.
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In these countries and other developing nations, Facebook's problem with Alex Jones, the notorious American conspiracy theorist, is old news.
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Still, powerful companies are "drowning out the voices of developing nations," a Chinese delegate argued at a committee on Saturday.
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And the summit led to more money to help developing nations with their climate efforts through the Green Climate Fund.
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The World Bank, controlled by the world's most developed nations, lends money to developing nations for infrastructure and development projects.
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The Federal Reserve looks poised to keep interest rates lower for longer, leaving investors searching for yield in riskier developing nations.
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Zenysis offers data management systems for developing nations, and is now in a $2000 million pilot program with the Ethiopian government.
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Entrepreneurs in developing nations have redefined the words "bootstrapping" and "disruptive," creating all kinds of businesses that solve major societal problems.
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Among its efforts, the foundation has sought to provide better sewage systems for developing nations and donated vaccines to fight malaria.
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"It's becoming popular among developing nations or in the countryside where access to conventional banking is difficult for people," he said.
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As China, India, and other developing nations started to grow and became more competitive, we started losing ground in certain sectors.
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In terms of panels themed for developing nations, the World Economic Forum will be serving up the usual fare this year.
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By comparison, respondents in other countries surveyed —particularly in developing nations— rated identity theft or bankcard fraud as their top concern.
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Managing human waste is a massive issue in developing nations, with improper sanitation partially responsible for the spread of deadly disease.
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And some developing nations, including Iran, said all rich countries were failing to do enough, especially to cut emissions before 2020.
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The cash will help developing nations cut emissions and adapt to impacts such as desertification, heat waves, floods and rising seas.
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And to add insult to injury, Gilead is practically giving the drug away in Egypt and some 90 other developing nations.
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The study also projected that better investments could create 80 million jobs by 2030, almost all of them in developing nations.
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He said under World Trade Organization guidelines for developing nations, the U.S. would be disadvantaged in a bilateral deal with Mexico.
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Uber officials say ride-sharing apps can provide a great economic opportunity for women, particularly in developing nations such as Kenya.
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IEA projects consumption in 2018 will average 99.3 million barrels a day, driven largely by developing nations like China and India.
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It is more common in developing nations, but it is also the only nutritional deficiency that is widespread in industrialized countries.
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Ironically, the persistence of poverty in developing nations is what also prompted the development of the bike roaster to begin with.
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He later embodied the Third World revolutionary who defied the West, acting as a prominent voice for the developing nations movement.
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Most other developing nations have also submitted only two estimates, but some, including Brazil and Mexico, have submitted three or more.
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The Japanese government's policy of financing coal power in developing nations, alongside China and South Korea, has also come under scrutiny.
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Shopify stressed that helping merchants reduce fees and bringing commerce opportunities to developing nations as reasons it's joining the Libra Association .
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The Trump administration has come under fire for trying to block a World Health Assembly resolution on breastfeeding in developing nations.
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Uganda could be a model to other developing nations where officials fear that providing morphine could set off an opioid crisis.
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Developing nations once struggled to obtain financing, but there is now an abundance of money available at historically low interest rates.
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False pregnancies are more common in developing nations where childbearing is seen as an integral part of a woman's role in society.
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China strongly opposes some developed countries jointly placing pressure on developing nations over trade issues, Ministry of Commerce spokesman Gao Feng said.
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At first glance, giving people in developing nations unlimited access to Wikipedia or Facebook's Free Basics program seems like a no-brainer.
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In some developing nations, people walk up to six hours every day simply to gather enough water for their families to survive.
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Most of those posts suggested that Zika virus was a way to depopulate developing nations or called the entire disease a hoax.
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It may also help burnish India's credentials in social sector spending, which lags even other developing nations, HSBC said in a report.
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Besides Facebook employees, the target market for the cryptocurrency is "developing nations where government-backed currencies are more volatile," The Information reported.
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In other words, Jones knows how to get businesses in developing nations to work with and benefit from clients in the west.
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In other words, Endless is building Linux-based computers for people who have never owned a computer, particularly those in developing nations.
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Kurtyka said challenges included sharing the burden between developed and developing nations of the cost of moving to a low-carbon world.
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Malaria accounts for over 10,000 maternal and 200,000 neonatal deaths per year, and contributes to perinatal morbidity and mortality in developing nations.
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Disappearing shoreline for coastal communities in developing nations all around the world means drowned crops, flooded homes, and ultimately loss of livelihood.
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Electronics waste, particularly waste from batteries, is a growing hazard in developing nations, where much of this waste can ultimately wind up.
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China and Taiwan had for years tried to poach each other's allies, often dangling generous aid packages in front of developing nations.
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Flo, a simple, reusable menstrual hygiene kit, provides a solution for women and girls in developing nations to care for their bodies.
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"We are about to see a tipping point" as clean energy grows rapidly in the United States and developing nations, Sandercock predicted.
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Especially when I talk to developers in developing nations, in Asia or Latin America, I tell them that VR is your chance.
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Everex, a FinTech company, is leveraging Ethereum to help people in developing nations with limited access to banks and global financial systems.
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De Vasconcelos said relying on remittances is a symptom of poverty in developing nations that pushes people to find economic opportunities abroad.
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For example, it has been used by foreign airlines to purchase planes from Boeing and farmers in developing nations to acquire equipment.
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Venezuela for decades stored gold that makes up its central bank reserves in foreign bank vaults, which is common among developing nations.
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In earlier research, scientists also predicted that this drop could compromise people's need for protein and for micronutrients, particularly in developing nations.
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Even so, she said developing nations were inured over many years to shortfalls in promised funds and were likely to push ahead.
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Funding for developing nations was agreed to under the Paris Agreement, to help them make the move to renewable forms of energy.
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Though not unusual for small, developing nations, the concept has come under renewed discussion as a new government is expanding the programs.
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The phenomenon is not confined to the Dominican Republic, he said, and can be seen in many developing nations with a coastline.
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But the rush into the bonds of higher-risk developing nations shows just how short memories can be in the financial world.
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Just talk to would-be visitors from developing nations (including investors) who have been denied visas of entry for no specific reason.
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The EU will exclude some developing nations, South Africa and the countries of the European Economic Area, notably Norway, from its quotas.
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On the losing end of this requirement are impoverished citizens of developing nations, who would see the cost of biologic medicines soar.
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Still, it's hard not to look at Libra and think of Facebook's other utopian project aimed at empowering people in developing nations: Internet.
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The company has said Facebook-enabled mobile money will be a particular boon for the unbanked, both in the US and developing nations.
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" Christensen writes of poor, developing nations: "It may sound counter-intuitive, but enduring prosperity for many countries will not come from fixing poverty.
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The social network now earns $1.22 in average revenue per user (ARPU) in the "Rest Of World" region made up of developing nations.
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Experts say the court's ruling will chill research on gene-edited crops both in Europe, as well as in developing nations in Africa.
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His government routinely dismisses the IMF as a pawn of Washington that puts the interests of wealthy financiers before those of developing nations.
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While almost 40 percent of those murdered were indigenous, the report said, the wave of violence is not confined solely to developing nations.
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Each purchase helps fund large-scale water purifiers for schools in need, though LifeStraw also provides its straw-like innovation to developing nations.
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As statistics show, many already marginalized populations experience high rates of illiteracy, including women, low-income individuals and those living in developing nations.
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The research pointed out that unintended pregnancies put women at risk of seeking abortions that are unsafe and illegal in many developing nations.
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Facebook also aims to continue to grow its massive user base, especially in developing nations where the service currently has smaller penetration rates.
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China's debt-trap diplomacy is giving the country greater control over developing nations across Asia and Africa, like Angola, Sri Lanka and Djibouti.
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Developing nations in the hottest corners of the world, led by India, say that making the transition so quickly would be too costly.
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The group has dominated the strategic waters of the small developing nations since World War Two and are pushing back against Beijing's moves.
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Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear company, has exported nuclear technology for years, selling plants in China, India and a host of developing nations.
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If all babies in developing nations were exposed to optimal breastfeeding practices, 13 percent of children under 5 who die could be saved.
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Multinational tech company has implemented a yearly travel program in which top performing employees are sent to developing nations on pro-bono assignments.
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China and Taiwan have over the years tried to poach each other's allies, often dangling generous aid packages in front of developing nations.
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Fairly synchronized growth recovery, low inflation and amply accommodative monetary policy in advanced economies have created a sweet spot for the developing nations.
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China and various developing nations, by contrast, have in the past preferred a "bifurcated" system that holds them to somewhat looser reporting requirements.
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China and other developing nations, by contrast, have in the past preferred a "bifurcated" system that holds them to somewhat looser reporting requirements.
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IFC, part of the World Bank Group, is an international institution with 184 member countries that helps secure financing for projects in developing nations.
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Finance ministers for developing nations in the Group of 24 economies urged major economies to reform the global trading system, rather than discard it.
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Many developing nations are home to health care deserts — regions where accessing proper care is often unrealistic due to travel time or financial cost.
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Among the minimum requirements for the role, Facebook lists experience "working in developing nations and with governments and civil society organizations around the world".
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"Facebook and WhatsApp are huge in developing nations like Africa and India," said Tony Perkins, editor of Cryptonite, a media company focused on blockchain.
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The company is also partnering with doctors in developing nations, with the hope that the app could soon be widely used in those countries.
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Many papers highlighted challenges posed to developing nations by big mining and agricultural industries that are using technology to gain access to remote regions.
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The unpredictability of climate change could add to challenges in providing safe and hygienic medical care in developing nations, particularly during drought, Kushner said.
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And some developing nations going through major economic gyrations offer huge opportunities to investors, even as large portions of the population remain in poverty.
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Xi added that China must strengthen its relations with developing nations, who he described as natural allies, but also learn from all other nations.
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Overall, it projected infrastructure investments from now until 2030 of around $90 trillion, roughly double recent levels and mostly in developing nations and cities.
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Developing nations like Brazil don't have the resources to implement major mosquito control initiatives, and citizens don't always have easy access to air conditioning.
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Critics say the unprecedented infrastructure plan will favor Chinese firms, boost Beijing's international influence and force developing nations to take on high debt burdens.
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National crises make governments vulnerable to autocracy, and the crisis of climate change is one that puts more than just developing nations at risk.
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For years, China and Taiwan have tried to poach each other's allies, often dangling generous aid packages in front of leaders of developing nations.
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The product — which is made of repurposed bicycle parts — was designed to be manufactured and maintained in developing nations, creating a self-sustaining product.
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"Women in this country are 16 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in the other developing nations," Cuomo said.
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A group of countries led by India argued for transferring intellectual property rights for clean energy technologies to developing nations to accelerate their diffusion.
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The issue also would have exacerbated disputes about the responsibilities of developed versus developing nations that could have threatened the overall accord, they said.
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This also puts it in the United States' best interest to help solve some of these problems that plague developing nations, argue the authors.
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Factories with padlocked emergency exits, expired fire extinguishers, and poor construction are everywhere in Bangladesh, not to mention in developing nations around the world.
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The diagnostics range from very simple to sophisticated tests that may call for greater investment in developing nations' health care systems, Nishi tells Axios.
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Dani Rodrik, a Harvard economist, calculates that manufacturing employment in India and other developing nations has already peaked, a phenomenon he calls premature deindustrialization.
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But he does have a point about the impact of a surging dollar, which has a long history of inflicting damage on developing nations.
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Our lack of national paid leave puts us starkly at odds with the rest of the developed world, as well as with developing nations.
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For example, in developing nations it has already been responsible for helping move a billion people out of poverty and into the global economy.
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Farmers are particularly vulnerable in developing nations where governments, keen to encourage private investment, allow investors to buy, lease, or develop land, creating tension.
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Appoint climate deniers to key posts and ban U.S. aid to health groups that provide abortion as a family-planning option in developing nations.
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The story comes amid reports that the president referred to some developing nations as "s---hole countries" in an immigration meeting with key senators.
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You mention in your book three main casualties of the business model: jobs in developed economies, human rights in developing nations, and the environment.
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"Richer countries have not been leading the way, either in reducing their own emissions or in reducing the pressure on developing nations," Alexander said.
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Olivier Legrand, managing director of LinkedIn in Asia Pacific, said the findings indicate an underlying confidence that developing nations are on an upward trajectory.
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With 150 developing nations plus big organizations like the Gates Foundation as potential customers, Zenysis could make a profit while preventing the next Ebola crisis.
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Its stock market has a similar makeup to many developing nations — it's heavy in energy, materials and financials — but it comes with much less risk.
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For the same reason that rural Americans must migrate to more prosperous cities, many people in developing nations must move to metropoles to escape poverty.
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Why it matters: As the number of displaced people worldwide continues to grow, the burden of caring for refugees is increasingly falling on developing nations.
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The training, combat experience and relatively high salaries the peacekeepers from developing nations get can equip them to affect politics at home when they return.
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That's especially true for pregnant women and mothers living in developing nations, who are often left to grapple with health care accessibility, affordability and practicality.
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In developing nations, where mobile phones are often accessible despite misconceptions, mHealth is proving to be part of the solution to the maternal health crisis.
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Auxiliary nurse midwives (ANM) are women who help to fill the gap in health care access between expectant mothers in developing nations and medical facilities.
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Natural gas emits very little particulate pollution, which is a big draw for developing nations whose populations are choking on smog from coal and oil.
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This allows the Ox to be shipped cheaply to developing nations, where aid workers can use it to transport water, grain, fertilizer, and building materials.
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Predicting light levels, instead of other wealth indicators, was important to the team because nightlights are among the most studied economic markers in developing nations.
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The award-winning candle company donates all profits outside of production and operating costs to UNICEF to fund its solar energy work in developing nations.
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A staggering 2000 percent of these deaths occur in developing nations, where hypothermia is a common cause of death in premature and low-weight infants.
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While those are developed countries, other developing nations such as Chile, in 11th spot, and Brazil, in 56th place, offer stiff competition for mining dollars.
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The Neopenda, which is wrapping up its Kickstarter campaign on May 20163, is a hat designed to improve newborn survival and health in developing nations.
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In America and in developing nations across the world, time is running out for this generation, and we must act soon to impact the next.
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And beyond this region of the world, post-harvest losses of fresh fruits and vegetables affect 470 million farmers and retailers in other developing nations.
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And, to boot, Brazil's highly competitive democracy, more than most developing nations, seemed consistently to allow for accommodation and compromise among rival parties and ideologies.
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Because many developing nations in Southeast Asia lack environmental regulations as stringent as those in Western nations, it's easier to dispose of their trash there.
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The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), which works on economic growth for developing nations, has reportedly seen its hiring process taken over by the White House.
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Critics say that through the project, China forces developing nations to take on high debt burdens while benefiting Chinese companies which are often state-owned.
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Lawrence's book The Case for Relaunching the Mercantile Economy in Developing Nations offers a clue for how Gilead will become a world power through trade.
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These programs are supported by Business for Social Responsibility, which is an international non-profit organisation that provides educational support for workers in developing nations.
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In developing nations, girls who lack close water access are often targets of sexual harassment and violence when going to fetch water for their families.
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Often, developing nations can't conduct antibiotic-resistance surveillance because they don't have the basic health care infrastructure: There are few hospitals or no reliable labs.
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Over all, global sales are expected to rise by 4 percent in 2018, according to Euromonitor, with most of that growth occurring in developing nations.
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The Trump administration has also proposed eliminating $524 million in funding for contraceptives and other family planning efforts that mostly benefit women in developing nations.
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The Vienna meeting's objectives include agreeing on schedules for countries to reduce HFC use and on financial help for developing nations to cut their use.
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Applications from outside the union also rose, a reminder that the pool of potential students is growing as middle classes expand in many developing nations.
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After the recent departures, the association had just one payments company to draw from: PayU, the Naspers-owned firm that primarily operates in developing nations.
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The rate at which black American women are dying from the disease is comparable to that of women in many poor developing nations, researchers reported.
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Across developing nations, analysts say large road projects are destroying forests and hurting local communities who are often not consulted or compensated for their loss.
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Trump's proposed 543 budget would cut funding for humanitarian aid by about 30 percent, shifting the focus from assistance to national security in developing nations.
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The list price for a fourth-generation model is currently just shy of $2 million, putting it out of range for hospitals in developing nations.
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The petrochemicals segment is a major growth area for oil companies such as Exxon, in part due to surging use of plastics in developing nations.
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But far from the cliché that depression is a crisis of the wealthy West, depression is a global problem, and developing nations are not immune.
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But the extra cost of building resilience into infrastructure projects in developing nations would represent only about 3 percent of the overall price, it noted.
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Smartphones are often the primary devices for people in developing nations to connect to the internet, and it's where smartphone sales are growing the fastest.
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Advanced penetration in developed markets and the location of new users in developing nations, emerging economies and less affluent places, she said citing data from McKinsey.
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Gillard, 55, said the case for urgently putting millions of developing nations school-age children in classrooms was imperative and rested on "hard-hitting practical" arguments.
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Teixeira, who has lived in developing nations around the world and has familial roots in agriculture, has a vision for how Markit Opportunity can scale globally.
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For Zamora, the election isn't make or break for emerging markets, but people should add the election as yet another risk factor to investing developing nations.
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In developing nations, millions of people are at risk of premature death because they cook over fires in their homes, burning wood, coal, or dung inside.
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For most developing nations, the issue is far more severe, leaving whole communities without access to clean water, healthcare, education, and other life-giving development opportunities.
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This fund is a very important step in addressing some of the challenges women in developing nations are up against when starting and growing a business.
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China has been an aggressive driver of mineral, fossil fuel and timber exploitation, especially in developing nations across the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Africa and Siberia.
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The US is the only developed nation that hasn't ratified an international treaty to stop First World countries from dumping their e-waste in developing nations.
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Last week, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick told an audience in Berlin that the company is profitable in the developed world, but "massively unprofitable" in developing nations.
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The report by the Global Infrastructure Hub (GIH) of the G20 wealthy and developing nations exposes the challenges facing one of the world's least developed regions.
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But the United States is the second-worst emitter of greenhouse gasses, and burdening developing nations with the task of reducing emissions completely ignores that fact.
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Travel — particularly to developing nations — gets you off the couch and out of your comfort zone, and forces you to be more self and culturally aware.
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Buzzfeed's report features cases involving Egypt, El Salvador and Indonesia that suggest this "private, global super court" inordinately benefits corporations to the detriment of developing nations.
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Technologies designed to scrub emissions from coal-burning plants have made little commercial progress, however, and many developing nations have plans to build coal-fired facilities.
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The State Department is sending $500 million to the Green Climate Fund, which provides money to developing nations to help fight the effects of climate change.
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The work of a sexologist could include working with trauma victims, assisting sex workers with legal challenges, educating doctors in developing nations, or designing sex toys.
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The Congressional report, Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations 2008-2015, noted that Egypt was the biggest recipient of arms deliveries last year worth $5.3 billion.
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Many plans by developing nations to curb their planet-warming emissions - to help meet global goals to prevent runaway climate change - depend on such international assistance.
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The Senate in 1997 unanimously rejected the Kyoto Protocol because it demanded legally binding emissions cuts from industrialized countries while allowing developing nations to act voluntarily.
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Burning trash for energy seems particularly practical for large, developing nations that lack modern trash disposal systems where garbage poses a massive environmental and health threat.
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Developing nations were predicted to expand at 20163 percent clip this year and 4.8 percent in 2018, a marked improvement from 4.1 percent growth in 2016.
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Land is critical for smallholder farmers and indigenous people globally but the majority in developing nations lack secure rights despite living or working there for generations.
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With bottomless pools of oil in the Middle East, extensive minerals from developing nations, and swaths of farmland available, why clutter a model by including them?
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This Earth Day, President Obama will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change, which seeks to limit greenhouse gas emissions and funnel aid to developing nations.
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The Millennium Challenge Corporation was created by Congress in 2004 as part of an effort to deliver foreign aid and foster economic opportunities in developing nations.
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Since then, countries have pledged $10.3 billion to the Green Climate Fund, which was set up by the UNFCCC to direct climate finance to developing nations.
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Environmental activists pushed for an amendment to the convention that would fully ban some of the world's richest countries from sending their electronics to developing nations.
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So does the chance that rising oil prices will cut into demand from developing nations, as well as the new pipeline capacity next year, he added.
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While the Pacific states are small developing nations, they lie in highly strategic waters dominated by the United States and its allies since World War Two.
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In a country still dependent on coal, the renewable energy industry has been lauded by many energy experts and environmentalists as a model for developing nations.
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Countries came together in 2015 to craft a new climate agreement that for the first time secured emissions reduction commitments from industrialized and developing nations alike.
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President Xi Jinping said last month China has offered to help developing nations and is not seeking a sphere of influence in Pacific Ocean island states.
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Worldwide disparities in childhood leukemia survival rates have narrowed in recent years, but there are still wide gaps between developed and developing nations, a new study shows.
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Victor Viñas, vice-chair of the fund's board from the Dominican Republic, said the move would "benefit many more vulnerable communities" in the developing nations it serves.
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A dedicated philanthropist, he invests heavily in developing nations and announced in September that he would invest $500 million in the startup businesses of refugees and migrants.
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A "South-to-South" dialogue among developing nations, which has already begun, must continue so we can become contributors and leaders into a new, greener, global marketplace.
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Other countries are trying this, too, but China is one of the few developing nations with a bureaucracy big enough and bossy enough to do it well.
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Critics say that through the massive infrastructure project, China forces developing nations to take on high debt burdens while benefiting Chinese companies which are often state-owned.
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To provide a wider forum, including the developing nations, a G-20 group was established in September 1999 as the main global platform for economics and finance.
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Putin winks to the camera prior to a working session with leaders of the G8 countries and five developing nations on June 8, 2007, in Heiligendamm, Germany.
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This has been a favored point for Bitcoin boosters with a libertarian bent, but, like most other use cases for Bitcoin in developing nations, it falls short.
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At least 214 million women in developing nations cannot get access to contraceptives - resulting in 89 million unintended pregnancies and 48 million abortions each year, says UNFPA.
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UNICEF provides humanitarian and development assistance to children and mothers in over 190 developing nations and territories, focused primarily on saving children's lives and defending their rights.
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Afterward, when she was twenty-four, she got a job with ThinkWell, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., which works to expand health coverage in developing nations.
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Rising human populations in many developing nations would require new policies, both to protect nature and to meet U.N. goals of eradicating poverty and hunger by 2030.
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Beijing's latest move could assuage concerns from many European countries and developing nations about their own trade deficits with China as well as loss of manufacturing jobs.
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Yet Uber's quest toward remaking transportation in India, which the company sees as a template for other developing nations, is bound to be long, expensive and complicated.
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ICAO's proposed Carbon Offsetting Scheme for International Aviation recommends bringing in the carbon offsets agreement in phases to accommodate developing nations and exempting the world's least-developed countries.
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Yet Europeans have a sense of obligation to help those in developing nations- in seven of 10 countries, half or more of the public supports increasing foreign aid.
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Experts say post-disaster trafficking has become common in developing nations as an increase in extreme events caused by global warming leaves the already poor even more vulnerable.
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While China has grown into a superpower, practically colonising many developing nations, Hong Kong remains one defiant "colony" that will never surrender our core values for economic stability.
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Much of that reflects "new money" from China and other developing nations whose citizens to an extent have legitimate fears about political stability and the rule of law.
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In general, cities in developed nations all spend around 0.22 percent of their total GDP on climate adaptation, whereas cities in developing nations all spend about 0.15 percent.
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And a 2016 analysis from the World Bank estimated that roughly two-thirds of all jobs in developing nations around the globe are susceptible to replacement by automation.
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Research published in The World Journal of Surgery suggests that the surgical capabilities of developing nations can be improved through investments in medical equipment and surgical training programs.
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While the United States and some European countries have begun to use mobile phone networks commercially to predict rain, developing nations may take another few years, said Tricarico.
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Leaders didn't manage to draft a new pact to replace the Kyoto deal... Largely because of disagreements between the responsibilities of developed versus developing nations on emissions reduction.
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The time I spent with Helen taught me more about the constrictions and hardships of women in developing nations than anything I have ever read, before or since.
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Developing nations There are a few organizations attempting to combat the many additional hurdles that women in underdeveloped countries face when addressing the gender gap in the workforce.
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The effort mobilizes youth through education and fundraising to help finance and build sustainable wells in developing nations, especially focusing on regions like Swaziland, India, Ethiopia and Uganda.
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A spending bill passed earlier this month to fund the federal government through September did not include any money for the fund that supports developing nations' treaty contributions.
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The Family Grant, a lauded welfare program that has been copied by several developing nations, currently gives impoverished families a monthly allowance of up to 336 reais ($103).
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International trade increased by more than 50 percent from 2005 to 2015, with about 60 percent of that rise tied to growing exports from developing nations, it added.
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The practice has drawn criticism from some other nations, who have insisted the bank's focus on providing loans to developing nations requires participation by leaders from other regions.
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Trump sparked a political firestorm after he reportedly referred to several developing nations as "shithole countries" during a meeting with Durbin, Graham and several conservative lawmakers last week.
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"It's been a really hidden crime against children and it's happening in lots of developing nations," said Mulheir, who launched the report at the European Parliament in Brussels.
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Europe and the United States also took steps within their sugar programs to protect poor developing nations by guaranteeing market share at a price that covered production costs.
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With many Western democracies in apparent crisis, Chinese propaganda may fall on fertile ground in developing nations, which have been impressed by China's economic success and social stability.
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Focusing on arms deals to developing nations, the extensive report found that Saudi Arabia was the top arms importer with deals worth around $217 billion from 353-235.
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This was particularly true for developing nations, the report said, calling for more work to be done by the tourism industry to help preserve cultural and natural assets.
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Western food companies are aggressively expanding in developing nations, unleashing a marketing juggernaut that's contributing to a new epidemic of chronic illnesses fed by soaring rates of obesity.
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Only the cheapest, low-end Android devices—usually the ones sold in developing nations—aren't encrypted, to ease the demands on the scarce system resources of those phones.
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Developing nations and environmental groups are challenging some of the world's biggest companies and wealthiest countries over the role corporate lobbyists play in United Nations climate change negotiations.
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It also says growth for oil demand in Asia and other developing nations is expected to offset the effects of alternative energy and new technology like electric vehicles.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the region was a natural fit for the initiative, which China has leveraged to deepen economic and financial cooperation with developing nations.
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While the United States and some European countries have begun to use mobile phone networks commercially to predict rain, developing nations may take another few years, said Tricarico.
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Inspections are usually delegated to third-party auditors, which have proven to be far from foolproof and at the mercy of the often uneven tides of developing nations.
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Low safety standards often hit the poorest hard, with transport-related deaths and injuries knocking up to 5 percent off the gross domestic product of some developing nations.
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The Green Climate Fund is a U.N. effort designed to send contributions from rich countries to developing nations who are bracing for the worst impact of climate change.
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Today, he said, it is common at annual conferences to discuss whether orphanages are ever appropriate shelters for children, and how to support domestic fostering initiatives in developing nations.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Cancer patients in developing nations are being denied basic pain relief, often because of excessive fears about opioid abuse, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.
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European nations and the U.S. may have developed the rules for refugees in the 1951 Refugee Convention, but developing nations host 85% of the world's refugees, according to UNHCR.
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Last month, the game won a seed grant from Saving Lives at Birth, a competition awarding innovators for tech that focuses on maternal and infant health in developing nations.
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Go deeper: Big Tobacco is targeting developing nations: report Hong Kong plans to ban e-cigarettes, other new smoking products FDA launches e-cigarette warning campaign in schools nationwide
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Some officials see little evidence that slow growth in the rest of the developed world, and problems in China and other developing nations, will interfere significantly with domestic growth.
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By 2020, four out of five smartphone connections will be in developing nations, where efficient pizza delivery is often less of a concern than access to clean drinking water.
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By exploring such topics as nutrition, food security, well-being, and survival, this week aims to raise awareness for the role that breast-feeding can play in developing nations.
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Twitter LiteImage: ScreenshotsTwitter Lite is an official product, aimed at developing nations, but it's not an app—it's the mobile Twitter website, engineered to be as efficient as possible.
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A promise by rich nations to provide developing nations with $100 billion a year to tackle climate change is only one part of the huge transformation needed, she added.
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Zuckerberg would recruit engineers to work on innovative networking technologies like lasers and drones like Aquila, Facebook's unmanned aircraft that was designed to deliver Wi-Fi to developing nations.
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The basic tenets of the WTO, in opposing protectionism and supporting free trade should not change, but the rights of developing nations should also not be overlooked, he said.
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The Soviets embraced all this wholeheartedly: the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, founded in 1960 to provide education for students from developing nations, was renamed the Patrice Lumumba University.
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From 1960 to 2000, developing nations grew at an average pace of 4.3% - and from 2000 to 2010, they grew at an even faster pace of 6.0% per year.
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It also underscored how this is a global problem: Synthetic textiles are more common in developing nations, which often don't have robust wastewater treatment facilities to filter them out.
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People of color and people in marginalized and developing nations are going to be the ones most impacted by climate change, by these disastrous climate events that are happening.
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Worse, other key emitter nations — especially India — now have little reason to follow through on their Paris pledges: If the U.S. won't, why should developing nations cut their emissions?
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In developing nations, lack of access to health care can stem from economic barriers, overwhelmed medical facilities or physical distance — and all sources have devastating impacts for pregnant girls.
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Retraining would be hard to implement in developing nations, argue Mr. Schlogl and Mr. Sumner, because they typically have limited education sectors in place through which to deliver it.
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As the Fed raises interest rates in the United States, investors have been pulling money out of developing nations like Argentina, Mexico and Turkey while betting on the dollar.
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Developed-world governments that are the bank's members provided the bulk of its money, which was used to make loans to developing nations for infrastructure projects and the like.
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Even so, Jacob believes the data support calls for better implementation of smoke-free air policies and more strategies aimed at reducing the number of smokers in developing nations.
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Even so, Jacob believes the data support calls for better implementation of smoke-free air policies and more strategies aimed at reducing the number of smokers in developing nations.
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He has since left CMS and was confirmed by the Senate in September to lead the new U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, which oversees investments in developing nations' economies.
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It turns out that in developing nations, a small minority of citizens were most concerned about food, education and health care -- the areas most targeted by U.S. development policy.
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But Mr. Trump has vowed to cancel all future payments, and developing nations in Africa and Asia may now prove less eager to tackle their emissions as a result.
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Charity: Water, which raises funds to deliver clean water in developing nations, began a decade ago by deliberately modeling itself on companies like Apple, Nike and Silicon Valley firms.
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Nearly 20203 countries - many of them island states and other developing nations - have committed to strengthen their planned emissions cuts and adaptation efforts by the end of next year.
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One level deeper: The amount of coal-fired power produced in developing nations increased in 2018 and accounts for a combined 47% of generation in 104 emerging markets surveyed.
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Early detection is crucial for raising survival rates of HIV patients, but there are often cost barriers that prevent developing nations from outfitting local clinics with the necessary equipment.
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Most Venezuelan migrants have ended up in other South American countries, straining public services in developing nations unaccustomed to absorbing large migratory waves and fueling a backlash in some places.
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However it is even more complex in the vast, informal settlements of growing cities in developing nations like Brazil due to the lack of formal property title deeds, campaigners say.
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Oh, and for good measure, what if we eliminate funding for US consulates, embassies, military assistance to allies, aid to developing nations, and international peacekeeping efforts, saving about $650 billion?
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His agenda for the weekend includes meetings with world leaders, as well as a number of heavily choreographed group activities for the gathering of leaders of rich and developing nations.
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The former British colony, located on China's southwestern border, exports some 5,000 products to the United States duty-free under a U.S. trade programme for developing nations — another big plus.
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The former British colony, located on China's southwestern border, exports some 5,000 products to the United States duty-free under a U.S. trade programme for developing nations - another big plus.
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The former British colony, located on China's southwestern border, exports some 5,000 products to the United States duty-free under a U.S. trade program for developing nations - another big plus.
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Data from Dealogic shows euro debt sales by developing nations and firms amounted to $58 billion year-to-date, quickly catching up with last year's total volume of $77 billion.
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Putting aside its giggle-inducing name, The PeePoo Toilet is a vital way for people in developing nations to use the restroom safely, especially when they have a contagious disease.
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He raised Brazil's profile globally, strengthening diplomatic ties with other developing nations and luring marquee sports events, like the 2014 World Cup and the upcoming Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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For international groups, visit here for general rare disease groups in developed nations, and here for various organizations working on rare disease patient advocacy globally, including in developing nations. 9.
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The poor in urban slums in developing nations are particularly at risk, they said, while solutions to cool homes and bodies that do not hike climate-changing emissions remain elusive.
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Most Venezuelan migrants have ended up in other South American countries, straining public services in developing nations unaccustomed to absorbing large migratory waves and fuelling a backlash in some places.
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Efforts by smaller developing nations have a growing role to play in staying below that limit - but it could be jeopardized by the new pattern of manufacturing, the report added.
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Poor families in developing nations often focus, for instance, on rebuilding their homes after a natural disaster but sometimes stopped sending their children to school even after reconstruction, Edenhofer said.
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We must recognize that developing nations are just that—developing—and must be given the time to align with a defined list of metrics, values, and long-term structural goals.
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Cumulatively, developed nations like the US and the EU have emitted more carbon into the atmosphere than developing nations, and thus bear a greater share of responsibility for climate change.
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Those countries, under United Nations rules agreed to by the United States in the 1990s, also are not legally obligated to cut carbon because of their status as developing nations.
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Adriana Ayales, the owner, said she sources most of her herbs from the rain forests of her native Costa Rica and other developing nations in Central America and South America.
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But designers could also be powerful agents of change, not just in our culture but especially in developing nations where the subjugated status of women is a growing international concern.
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He vowed to turn the country's empathy inward, rejecting financial assistance for pollution controls in developing nations in favor of providing help to American cities struggling to hire police officers.
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Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg said Monday that reporters covering the global efforts to fight climate change should focus on activists from the developing nations most affected by it.
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Between 1999 and 2018, seven of the 10 places most affected by extreme weather were lower-income developing nations, with Puerto Rico, Myanmar and Haiti at the top, Germanwatch said.
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There was also disagreement over how strong a commitment rich countries were prepared to make on funding for developing nations to adapt to a warmer planet in the coming years.
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The cross-strait rivals have often engaged in "dollar diplomacy", dangling generous aid packages in front of developing nations, although Taiwan has struggled to compete with an increasingly powerful China.
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But two days later he blew a hole in the talks by shooting down a bipartisan "Gang of Six" bill and reportedly referring to several developing nations as "shithole" countries.
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Both the Solomon Islands and Kiribati are small developing nations but lie in strategic waters that have been dominated by the United States and its allies since World War Two.
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Environmental groups said the outcome in Marrakesh was a step in the right direction, but many issues needed to be resolved over the next two years, including funds for developing nations.
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House approves bill barring taxpayer money for abortions According to the Dutch government, the new fund would allow women in developing nations to gain access to contraceptives, clear information and abortion.
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The main concern is that any tough action on trade — he says he wants to renegotiate NAFTA and scrap the TPP — would harm developing nations that sell their goods in America.
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The documents provide details on some shocking acts of corruption in Russia, hint at scandalous goings-on in a range of developing nations, and may prompt a political crisis in Iceland.
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You can see, recently, all these countries are banning trash from developed nations to ship into developing nations because of the illegal dumping, it is because the recycling actually doesn't work.
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The Communist Party leadership has repeated its call for the establishment of "cyberspace sovereignty" and for developing nations to assume a greater role in governing the internet at the global level.
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All of these countries are considered developing nations by the U.N. The visualization is part of the Explorables project, a platform by CREATE Labs helping to make big data more digestible.
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Meanwhile, attendees representing developing nations may be less concerned about what happens to today's fossil fuel workers than with the fact that climate change's worst effects are still on the horizon.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Policymakers in developing nations may not know enough facts and figures about problems facing women and girls to help reach gender equality, research showed on Wednesday.
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The Clean Air unit was the biggest contributor to profit last year as it benefited from Europe's stricter emission rules and developing nations' move to control pollution generated by rapid urbanisation.
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Her team works with the USDA to study the disease, which could be a threat to wheat production worldwide, causing food shortages in developing nations and economic turmoil in developed countries.
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In a worst-case scenario, the move would discourage developing nations from taking further steps to limit emissions, potentially hampering efforts to reduce emissions before dangerous temperature increases are locked in.
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According to a recent report by the Hudson Institute, it is estimated that making donations spent in developing nations non-tax deductible will save American taxpayers $113 billion over 10 years.
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But church analysts say he has long harbored resentment over so-called ideological colonialism, the notion that international groups offer aid to developing nations contingent upon the adoption of Western values.
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The institute could use more satellite data, for instance the amount of light emitted at night by villages in developing nations, as a gauge of local poverty and vulnerability, he said.
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Finance ministers for developing nations in the Group of 24 whose economies have been battered by stormy markets urged major economies to reform the global trading system, rather than discard it.
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Currencies of developing nations had already been under the cosh after the dollar started a relentless ascent in mid-April and U.S. Treasury yields climbed above the psychological 3 percent threshold.
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Since 2000 or so, China — along with, to a lesser extent, India and other developing nations — has been on a coal binge, building coal-fired power plants at a breakneck pace.
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As of last week, Norway became only the 18th party to formally join the Paris deal, adding to a roster of small emitters like low-lying island states and developing nations.
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The baby formula industry is worth $70 billion and, as breast-feeding has become more popular in more developed countries, the industry has pinned its hopes for growth on developing nations.
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At the same time, he says, the West did not expect developing nations like China to start to move up the value chain, and compete with them in high-end manufacturing.
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"When we look at ... carbon emissions globally, they're on the increase -- as developing nations improve their standard of living they're burning coal even though we know about climate change," says Schubert.
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When the Soviet bloc began crumbling in the late 1980s, Mr. Kim went on a shopping spree, buying dilapidated automotive and home-appliance plants in former Communist countries and developing nations.
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While he does say that globalization hasn't benefited everyone, especially on the manufacturing side, more money will start flowing from China and other developing nations into America instead of vice-versa.
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The World Health Organization says 225 million women in developing nations would like to delay childbearing but are not using contraception for a variety of reasons, including a lack of access.
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Investors usually buy into developing nations when they feel comfortable with the market — they're considered riskier assets, even if many of these nations are more stable than they were years ago.
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The small developing nations lie in strategic Pacific waters dominated by the United States and its allies since World War Two, where China's moves to expand its influence have angered Washington.
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The report, "Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2008-2015," was prepared by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress, and delivered to legislators last week.
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The world can progress toward a zero-emissions world without "draining the growth out of our developed nations or dooming developing nations to a future of poverty and want," he said.
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Poverty, water scarcity, education and local politics all play a role in clean water access—with rural communities in developing nations among the most vulnerable populations affected by lack of water.
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Washington (CNN)Chinese President Xi Jinping offered his congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump this week, saying the two countries "shoulder a special responsibility" as the world's largest developed and developing nations.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Donor governments pledged $9.8 billion in fresh financing for the Green Climate Fund, set up to help developing nations tackle global warming, the head of France's Treasury said on Friday.
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But the same isn't true in developing nations where these phones' low-cost, simplicity, and long battery life (the Nokia 8110 has 25 days of standby, for example) are much more essential.
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Developed countries will start to reduce the use of HFCs by 2019, while developing nations have been given a longer time frame in which to freeze their use of the damaging gases.
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Or building a state-of-the-art eye-laser treatment facility within an aircraft designed to touch down in developing nations and help treat blindness that's completely preventable in the first world.
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The index's global average economic freedom score was 60.7—the highest recorded in the index's 22-year history—as more developing nations, including India, Myanmar and the Philippines, climbed up the rankings.
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John Norton Moore, a law professor at the University of Virginia who helped draft Article 82, said Oslo was trying to balance the interests of its citizens, oil companies and developing nations.
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What gets interesting is what happens to the 8-year-olds who grow up thinking of voice first, what happens when developing nations embrace tablets with voice not desktop PCs to educate.
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It is "justified" for small, developing nations to enjoy some form of protectionism because they cannot compete on equal footing against large trading countries, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday.
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I know from experience that America's legal system is among the most respected in the world and is often looked to by developing nations as the model for ordering their own affairs.
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The engineering gymnastics required to do this could help Instagram grow in developing nations where data is either too expensive for everyone to afford, or there aren't omnipresent or stable data connections.
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For example, developing nations may be allowed to subsidize some industries in return for rich nations being allowed to use tariffs against countries "dumping" goods produced under substandard labor or environmental standards.
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Facebook's 2.5 billion users would gain more if its next board member had more perspective on the consequences of technology and the upheaval it can cause in developing nations around the world.
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It is worst in developing nations, particularly in Asia, where economies are growing fast and countries often have lax regulations, but smog also affects Europe, making headlines in London, Paris and Warsaw.
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While developing nations and conflict-affected states often lack access to the vaccine, the problem in wealthy, developed countries can be linked to the spread of misinformation about the vaccine, experts say.
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Giving developing nations buildings designed to help their political institutions prosper is part of that expanded aid program, says Aaron Tesfaye, a professor in political science at William Paterson University, New Jersey.
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But they are also a hit to the fragile economies of developing nations that are increasingly reliant on online business transactions as internet access and cellphone use have exploded in recent years.
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Members of the U.S. House and Senate flooded Twitter to condemn President Donald Trump's reported description of some developing nations as "s---hole countries" at a White House meeting on immigration Thursday.
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Some development experts have denounced the pick, suggesting Malpass would use the post to undermine the bank, which offers loans to developing nations for projects on infrastructure, health, energy and other areas.
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"We have to recognize that China plays an increasingly important role in the world, especially as a partner to promote development and its contributions protecting the interests of developing nations," Botelho said.
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Climate change poses a greater threat to poor communities in developing nations like India, Indonesia and the Philippines, with people living on the margins less able to protect themselves from the impact.
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Although Obama is personally popular among Europe's people and leaders, many high officials on the continent have long grumbled about his talk of pivoting to Asia and building ties with developing nations.
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Infertility in developing nations is also almost always blamed on women, (in reality, causes of infertility are evenly split between men and women), adding further pressure on women who are unable to conceive.
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Harrison — the founder of Charity Water, a non-profit that provides drinking water to people in developing nations, in part by raising money to dig wells — explains that these are called Jerry Cans.
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Recent monthly temperatures have come perilously close to one climate guardrail that concerns low-lying developing nations, which favor a temperature target of 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Celsius, above preindustrial levels.
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OSLO (Reuters) - The $8 billion Green Climate Fund, set up to help developing nations tackle global warming, named Yannick Glemarec of France as its new executive director on Monday after his predecessor quit.
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China and Taiwan have tried to poach each other's allies for years, often dangling generous aid packages in front of developing nations, though Taipei now struggles to compete with an increasingly powerful Beijing.
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But if used to show what is possible in developing nations and cut risks for private investors there, it could help spur the much larger investments needed to make that shift, he said.
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But if used to show what is possible in developing nations and cut risks for private investors there, it could help spur the much larger investments needed to make that shift, he said.
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It already powers nearly all its data centers, offices and retail stores worldwide with renewable energy sources, and is working to clean up its vast supply chain in developing nations such as China.
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Indoor air pollution, often caused by coal- or wood-burning cooking stoves used in homes in developing nations, killed even more people, 4.3 million, of whom 531,000 were aged under five, it said.
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Developing nations have the added difficulty of contending with the scarcity of local business resources or talent, sometimes unstable political environments and infrastructure and, of course, lack of adequate banking and digital commerce.
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The opportunities for China are immense, as it can step into the U.S. role of providing technology and equipment transfer to developing nations to help them meet their commitments under the Paris agreement.
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China and Taiwan have tried to poach each other's allies over the years, often dangling generous aid packages in front of developing nations, although Taipei struggles to compete with an increasingly powerful China.
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Policies like the Clean Power Plan will drive down carbon pollution, while the global Green Climate Fund will help developing nations adapt to the effects of climate change and adopt clean energy technologies.
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The United States is the largest contributor to the World Bank, which was founded alongside the International Monetary Fund after World War II as a resource to bolster the economies of developing nations.
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The aim of the new initiative is not to reinvent the wheel, Bhatia said, but to facilitate access for developing nations to suitable expertise and advice, as well as filling in any gaps.
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In 2014, the world's leading powers and institutions, like the World Bank, committed about $25 billion to help developing nations adapt to climate change, according to a United Nations report published in May.
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Under the Paris Agreement, developing nations such as India would be provided with financial assistance by their developed peers to assist in the transition to renewable energy Third largest emitter in the world?
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Fisheries provide about 260 million full-time and part-time jobs globally with seafood products a critical export for developing nations, according to the study published in published in the journal Science Advances.
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Related: Developing Nations Are Gobbling Up More Meat — and That Could Mean More Antibiotic-Resistant Infections And finally, we must find incentives to convince pharmaceutical companies to search for and develop new antibiotics.
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Other countries, like the United States and Europe, are leery of holding countries like China, India and others to a lower standard because developing nations account for 60 percent of global emissions today.
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The rush of money has also pushed up the value of the dollar against the currencies of developed nations, such as the euro, and those of developing nations like Brazil, Turkey and Mexico.
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The hope was that tackling the misuse of the financial system and corruption in developing nations would help solve many of the world's most pressing problems: poverty, economic stagnation, illegal immigration, even terrorism.
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"An Inconvenient Sequel" delves deeper into the arcane details of compromise than its predecessor, with scenes of Mr. Gore working to find a middle ground between the needs of developed and developing nations.
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The organization primarily focuses on humanitarian aid in developing nations and rarely helps wealthy countries like the U.S., but it said it is making an exception as the situation in Puerto Rico worsens.
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With no rational basis for its antagonism, the organization has been forced to adopt a "fake news" strategy of trying to scare off the developing nations that are considering adopting the lifesaving products.
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Both the Solomon Islands and Kiribati may be small, developing nations, but they lie in strategic waters that have been dominated by the United States and its allies since the Second World War.
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Air pollution is worst in developing nations, particularly in Asia, where economies are growing fast and countries often have lax regulations, but smog also affects Europe, making headlines in London, Paris and Warsaw.
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China and Taiwan have tried to poach each other's allies over the years, often dangling generous aid packages in front of developing nations, though Taipei struggles to compete with an increasingly powerful China.
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Last year, the GGGI helped raise more than $500 million for climate finance through investment projects and government funds to support developing nations, and it aims to raise $2.5 billion by 2020, Rijsberman said.
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The Dutch government says a campaign to raise funds for access to birth control, abortion, and women's sexual health programs in developing nations has so far raised more than 260 million euros ($305 million).
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PARIS, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Donor governments pledged $9.8 billion in fresh financing for the Green Climate Fund, set up to help developing nations tackle global warming, the head of France's Treasury said on Friday.
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Opposition senators blamed Rousseff for running into the ground an economy now considered the worst performing among major developing nations, pursuing what they called populist policies that led to high inflation, recession and unemployment.
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Mark Mobius, executive chairman of the Templeton Emerging Markets Group, which has $25 billion in assets under management, has been investing in developing nations since 1987 and says that China is still a powerhouse.
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The southeast Asian country joins developing nations such as China and India in establishing an oil buffer that will enhance their energy security as imports have jumped while domestic production is on the decline.
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The money, and in-kind services from Google, will support organizations working to bring quality educational materials and teacher training to students in developing nations, and to help students in crisis maintain their education.
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More affluent users with more buying power in markets like the US, UK, and Canada command higher ad prices, effectively subsidizing the social network for those in developing nations where ad rates are lower.
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India and China are set to drive the world's nuclear power production growth as the two developing nations — among the top consumers of energy in the world — pursue their respective national nuclear energy programs.
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US policymakers should use America's significant economic leverage to encourage and support improving educational opportunities for girls, and US private industry should be encouraged to invest in programs in developing nations that empower women.
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Expanding the role of women in developing nations would increase the number of physicians working to improve individual and public health and help those countries more quickly enhance their health systems, especially surgical systems.
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On Thursday, Cadiz questioned Brenda Ekwurzel, lead author of a study published in the academic journal Climate Change, that measured the contributions of greenhouse gas emissions to global warming by industrialized and developing nations.
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At that time, Oslo left open an option for making cuts by helping developing nations to reduce their emissions, but did not spell out that none of the cuts would be achieved at home.
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One important lesson is that the choices faced by governments in Latin America and developing nations around the world do not necessarily pit free markets against policies to combat poverty and foster social inclusion.
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But the amount of refugees resettled every year pales in comparison to the number still living in the first country where they were granted asylum, mostly developing nations in Africa and the Middle East.
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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said on Thursday climate finance provided by rich states to developing nations totaled $56.7 billion in 2017, up 17 percent from $48.5 billion in 2016.
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While Congress debates shrinking our investment in next-generation nuclear energy technologies, China and Russia are consolidating their nuclear influence by offering the design, construction, financing and operation of nuclear plants in developing nations.
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Responding to committee members who argued the agreement did not do enough to push developing nations to curb their carbon use, Inslee said U.S. inaction discouraged other countries from taking action on climate change.
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Christiana Figueres, who was the U.N. climate chief at Paris, said "increasingly developing nations are understanding they need to act at home for their own interests … This is very much a self-motivated action".
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This past Monday, pro-life President Donald Trump made it abundantly clear the United States will no longer use taxpayer dollars to support organizations that promote the killing of unborn children in developing nations.
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Young women who are survivors of sexual violence are at an increased risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV, which can lead to death in developing nations without access to antiviral medication.
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It's a particularly pressing issue in developing nations, where pregnancy for teen girls is extremely prevalent and dangerous — pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death for women and girls in developing countries.
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In recent years, the most effective of those policies has been global health — that is, putting U.S. resources to work saving lives in developing nations by spreading health treatments that work here at home.
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Facebook, which has struggled in recent months to combat allegations that it unfairly removes certain content on its service, aims to continue to grow in developing nations where it currently has smaller penetration rates.
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The actress Ali MacGraw is an ambassador for the brand, which sells clothing and home goods made by women in more than 30 developing nations, providing them with a platform for economic self-sufficiency.
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That was the same year that Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, bailed as commencement speaker at Smith College as critics accused the I.M.F. of damaging the economies of developing nations.
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Kenneth Montgomery is the head team physician with the New York Jets, as well as the president and co-founder of OrthoNations, a nonprofit aimed at training surgeons in developing nations around the world.
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"Despite those efforts, the demand for plastic is continuing to grow very rapidly" in both developing nations and richer ones, said Peter Levi, a lead author of the IEA's 2018 report on petrochemicals' future.
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While tourism can be an effective way for developing nations to spur economic growth, the industry can lead to environmental damage and crowd out sectors that could offer more sustainable employment, Foreign Policy reported.
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Policy makers across many developing nations have started cutting interest rates in recent weeks thanks to easing inflationary pressures and with a rally in the dollar and global borrowing costs running out of steam.
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The fund could help scientists in developing nations study regional impacts of solar geo-engineering such as on droughts, floods or monsoons, said Andy Parker, a co-author and project director of the SRMGI.
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That is why I introduced the BUILD Act, which was passed into law in 85033, and created the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), incentivizing private industry investment in developing nations around the globe.
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Often, the best opportunities to do good are the ones that are, for whatever reason, underserved by governments and NGOs today, like aid to developing nations or efforts to improve welfare on factory farms.
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GCF officials declined to comment on Trump's remarks or elaborate on the slow pace of approvals, deferring to the 2110 board members who represent both developed nation donors and developing nations that will receive funds.
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The process has not been proven commercially viable at scale, but it is widely seen as critical to mitigating the impacts of climate change because developing nations around the world are still building coal plants.
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Vox's Matt Yglesias explains: The documents provide details on some shocking acts of corruption in Russia, hint at scandalous goings-on in a range of developing nations, and may prompt a political crisis in Iceland.
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The project, a flagship foreign policy of President Xi Jinping, is viewed as China's bid to widen its influence — achieved by funding or taking on major infrastructure projects around the world, primarily in developing nations.
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A separate TMP analysis of 362 disputes with communities over the use of land and resources in developing nations found that such tensions caused significant financial harm to investors in more than half the cases.
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He also said that a global goal of channeling $100 billion a year in climate finance to developing nations by 2020, from both public and private sources, was still within reach despite cuts by Trump.
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Trump has previously endorsed protectionist measures, saying the United States was suffering due to unfair trade practices from some of its main Western allies, including Germany, as well as from China and some developing nations.
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Facebook LiteImage: ScreenshotsFacebook Lite is aimed at developing nations with developing telecom infrastructure, so chances are you won't be able to install it in your part of the world straight from the Google Play store.
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The album was recorded and mixed by Kevin Bernsten at Developing Nations, mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, and features artwork created by Dib-dib Gurung and laid out by Nerve Altar don Aaron Nichols.
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Last week at the G20 Summit, the World Bank announced the creation of a new $1 billion fund to help support women's entrepreneurship in developing nations, thanks in part to the work of Ivanka Trump.
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Parker had traveled to Beijing for the Belt and Road summit in April at which New Zealand had joined Russia and four developing nations to coordinate accounting standards for countries participating in Belt and Road.
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The billion-plus-dollar We-Fi will provide both financial and non-financial World Bank resources, including loans, technical assistance and guidance, mentorship opportunities, and policy reform to eliminate barriers for women in developing nations.
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Southwest and its U.S. competitors — now awash in cash after earning record profits last year — are scouring developing nations for second-hand jetliners as cheap fuel makes older, less efficient aircraft more economical to operate.
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The European Union, faced with a burgeoning refugee crisis in Greece, launched a new aid programme on Wednesday worth an initial 700 million euros that mirrors the kind of disaster relief it offers developing nations.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Macau billionaire accused of bribing a former United Nations General Assembly president on Thursday accused the U.S. government of prosecuting him for geopolitical reasons to slow China's influence over developing nations.
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Separately, developing nations said they would push at the next meeting in November in Morocco for donors to widen a $10 billion renewable energy plan for Africa, agreed last year, to include all poor nations.
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The US has grown richer still, during the same long boom in the late 211.5th century, along with South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore and other developing nations, including Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Georgia, Rwanda, Vietnam and others.
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The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted down two Democratic proposals to fund the Green Climate Fund, an effort to pump public and private funding from rich countries to developing nations for climate change infrastructure.
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After decades of discrete and careful diplomacy, it is now seeking to extend its political, military and economic influence into Europe and Africa and offers developing nations an alternative model to the West's liberalized societies.
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A recent report from The Rocky Mountain Institute estimates a fivefold increase in the number of room air conditioners (RACs) on the market in developing nations by 2628 -- from 28503 to 22019 billion units globally.
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Particularly for other emerging or developing nations, Brazil's last two years offer a profound cautionary tale for how quickly economic and political winds can change and how far into the future bets should be placed.
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But the deal, which is formally an amendment to the 1989 Montreal Protocol on the ozone, could increase the costs of air conditioning and refrigeration, putting it out of reach for some in developing nations.
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Health workers in developing nations are preparing for a rise in unsafe abortions due to President Trump's reinstatement of the global gag rule that prohibits federal funding of groups that provide abortion services or referrals.
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Francis again chose to give the prestigious and influential rank to a number of men from poor or developing nations, places he calls the periphery of the Church and which he feels deserve more attention.
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The pope will spend a day in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, a small island state known for its beaches and tax treaties that anti-poverty campaigners say drain the wealth from developing nations.
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The World Bank in particular championed Mr. Naqvi's cause and the idea that private investors like Abraaj could replace traditional financing techniques — namely, loans from the public sector — to foster economic development in developing nations.
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In its midseason premiere, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. roared back into action with not one but two Inhumans we've never seen before, a big bad looming on the horizon, and police corruption in developing nations.
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Under President Obama, American officials worked to pressure China and other developing nations to provide more accurate data, viewing that as a difficult but critical part of establishing clear global benchmarks in climate change policy.
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Few perceive America as a land where child marriage occurs; we think of developing nations like Afghanistan, Somalia and my homeland, India, which ignobly led the world with almost 27 million child marriages in 278.
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Besides the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the list included promoting democracy in other nations (17% said it was a top priority) and helping improve living standards in developing nations (22% said it was a top priority).
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For instance, their eponymous foundation has spent billions on vaccination initiatives for children in developing nations, which has lead to a decrease in diseases like polio and malaria and an increase in child life expectancy.
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Delegates from other countries said the United States had insisted on a waiver in the negotiations that would protect big emitters from liability claims in other countries, but that was unacceptable to many developing nations.
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In the next decade, failure to make new infrastructure resilient to climate change and other threats could cost developing nations $1 trillion, said the report, produced with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery.
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The "chrysotile-is-safe" argument has been used to stave off asbestos bans and preserve markets in developing nations such as India and China, where building materials and other products containing asbestos are widely used.
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Many countries expressed at the meeting that the Chinese resolution reflected the common wishes of the international community and helped raise the ability of developing nations to speak for themselves on human rights issues, Hua added.
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Former leader Howard Bamsey of Australia stepped down in July after what the fund described as a "difficult" board meeting marred by disputes between rich and poor nations about how to select projects in developing nations.
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The Fund, set up in South Korea in 2014, is trying to help developing nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt their economies to extremes such as floods, droughts, downpours and rising sea levels.
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The bank said it aims to support developing nations in adding 30 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2020, enough to power 150 million homes, and will design sustainable forest management strategies for more than 50 countries.
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In each country it visits—a list largely made up of developing nations with poor access to eye care—doctors aboard the plane help train local ophthalmologists, making an impact on each destination the plane hits.
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The lesson may apply to central banks in developing nations as well, according to new research presented on Friday that concluded using monetary policy to fight a currency war may ultimately lead to self-inflicted wounds.
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If the US backs out of the Paris accord, China—whose leaders supports clean energy for economic and political reasons—could find itself setting a global example and steering developing nations toward a low-carbon future.
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And there is an entire Climate Action Plan, a separate $1.3 billion to stop the impact of climate change, which includes $750 million to help developing nations make smart investments around clean energy and climate resilience.
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China's motivations for pursing green energy are two-fold: Not only are cities like Beijing choking in smog, but it sees an opportunity to become the number one international provider of renewable technologies to developing nations.
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To increase penetration rates in developing nations, Facebook has rolled out pared-down versions of its apps that use less data, and it has been developing solar-powered drones to extend internet connectivity around the planet.
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But in other countries, particularly developing nations where social media and messaging apps have become synonymous with the internet, leaders are rushing to stop the spread of hate speech by shutting off networks altogether, usually temporarily.
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And for the last decade, they have shored up their commitment status, adding one kid after another to their brood and traveling with the whole family around the globe as ambassadors and advocates in developing nations.
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One big technical problem the company had to solve in order to make a difference in developing nations, Willard said, was around landing small planes where there would be no runways or roads to do so.
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We are, for example, the second-largest financial contributor to the United Nations, and have provided more than $330 billion of Official Development Assistance, accepted 560,000 trainees from developing nations and dispatched 190,000 experts and volunteers.
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French gas and power utility Engie will pull out of about 20 countries in the next three years and target new markets in developing nations, while probably steering clear of big acquisitions, its chief executive said.
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He said his role as a U.N. advocate was to spread the message that electric cars were becoming affordable and could make a real difference to the lives of billions of people, particularly in developing nations.
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Tarnutzer dismissed those arguments as misinformation and said they threaten to delay the benefits of 5G that would also accrue to developing nations by, for example, making it possible to run ports and shipping more efficiently.
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From a device that alerts medical workers when to re-bandage a wound to a wheelchair specifically designed for people in developing nations, these inventions are making a massive difference for those who need it most.
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But developing nations and civil society groups such as the Malaysia-based Third World Network say companies that develop new crop varieties using this information could lock access to their critical traits using intellectual property rights.
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The recent ratification of Mexico's Paris accord symbolizes its emergence as a leader among developing nations, but also a global leader and active participant in the development and implementation of international agreements to mitigate climate change.
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Many organizations, often comprised of bipartisan experts on international assistance who have spent their careers in this space, work every day to find ways of effectively and efficiently building stability and economic capacity in developing nations.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have dismissed as "inflammatory nonsense" a Macau billionaire's claims that he is being prosecuted in connection with a U.N. bribery scheme for geopolitical reasons to slow China's influence over developing nations.
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In the climate deal reached in Paris in December, wealthy nations, which are the biggest emitters of greenhouses gases, pledged $100 billion a year starting in 2020 to developing nations to help deal with climate change.
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He was prime minister before, from 1981 to 2003, and back then he railed against the United States and other Western countries for what he said was a plot to hold back developing nations like Malaysia.
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As this year's G20 chair, Japan has been spearheading efforts to find common ground on ways to address an increasing number of developing nations saddled with massive debt for building of roads, railway and port facilities.
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The dollar's rapid ascent in the weeks immediately after the 2016 election spurred fears that an abrupt dollar run-up would damage global markets, leading to a rout in global currencies — especially those in developing nations.
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It is the latest example of China using promises of prosperity to pursue its global aspirations — often by funneling money to governments and investing in local infrastructure projects that critics call debt traps for developing nations.
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The small developing nations lie in strategic waters that have been dominated by the United States and its allies since World War Two, and China's moves to expand its influence in the Pacific have angered Washington.
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The goal for the Vienna meeting is to agree on schedules for countries to reduce HFC use and on financial support for developing nations cutting their use before a final summit in Kigali, Rwanda in October.
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Spurred by Mr. Trump, many conservative groups are insisting on a 20 percent rate, which they say is critical to making the United States more competitive with other developing nations that have relatively low corporate rates.
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They are, by the order of the NFL, never to be seen on television or the internet and instead shipped off to a warehouse, after which a charity will distribute them to people in developing nations.
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The latest figures on international climate funding for developing nations show barely a quarter has been going to adaptation, with the bulk backing clean energy adoption and more efficient energy use, aimed at cutting planet-warming emissions.
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Gavi — a public-private partnership of developed and developing nations, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the Gates Foundation, and other civil society groups — has grown in scope and scale since its launch in 2000.
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To avert pressures for migration north, climate change will compel huge investments to save coastal cities and arable land that the governments of developing nations can ill afford, and aid from richer nations will hardly be sufficient.
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In Port Klang, Yeo said citizens in rich nations diligently separate their waste for recycling, but the garbage ended up being dumped in developing nations where they are recycled illegally, causing environmental and health hazards, she said.
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Nutanix has been seeking to expand its customer base quickly, particularly among the large global companies, to hire aggressively and expand in developing nations such as India, according to regulatory filings and previous statements from the company.
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The report also notes that richer countries in the Persian Gulf and India have been able to demand better terms and more advanced weapons technologies on account of the relatively shrinking market for weapons in developing nations.
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Forty percent of all US electronics recyclers testers included in the study proved to be complete shams, with our e-waste getting shipped wholesale to landfills in Hong Kong, China, and developing nations in Africa and Asia.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Finance ministers for developing nations in the Group of 24 whose economies have been battered by stormy markets urged major economies on Thursday to reform the global trading system, rather than discard it.
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Lion Air's latest crisis illustrates the challenge relatively new carriers face as they try to keep pace with unstoppable demand for air travel in developing nations while striving for standards that mature markets took decades to reach.
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Year-to-date sales of euro-denominated debt by emerging market sovereigns were $33 billion by early July, making up about one third of all hard-currency debt sales by developing nations, according to calculations from J.P.Morgan.
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Led by China, South Korea, Indonesia and the Philippines, seaweed's surge in recent years has seemed environmentally friendly since it needs no fertilisers and has created both jobs and food in remote coastal areas of developing nations.
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Still, Trump's threats cast a long shadow, with worries ranging from a drying-up of U.S. climate finance for developing nations to a spread of nationalist, populist sentiment that could undermine global action to limit greenhouse gases.
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For developing nations like Myanmar - which emerged from decades of economic isolation in 2011 when the military stepped back from direct control of the country - the zones are a way of attracting foreign investment and creating jobs.
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In recent years, Tasmania, in common with the rest of Australia and other developed nations, has tended to lose manufacturing and other semi-skilled jobs to developing nations that can offer lower taxes and cheaper labor forces.
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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Disaster-prone developing nations, including Bangladesh and Indonesia, are exposed to crippling losses when storms, floods or earthquakes strike because they suffer from a dangerous lack of insurance, industry experts said on Monday.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union, faced with a growing refugee crisis in Greece, launched a new aid program on Wednesday worth an initial 2000 million euros that mirrors the kind of disaster relief it offers developing nations.
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And it wasn't that long ago that financial markets were feeling good about the global economy, shrugging off troublesome issues like the trade war, Britain's exit from the European Union and the debt levels of developing nations.
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The authors were mindful of its predecessor, the Kyoto Protocol, which was roundly rejected by the United States because it set binding emissions targets for wealthy countries while letting most developing nations, including China, off the hook.
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Many scientists reckon that the 1.5C goal, seen by many developing nations as a dangerous threshold for droughts, floods and rising sea levels, has already slipped out of reach and that the 2C limit is growing close.
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When the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag appeared in support of locating abducted Nigerian children two years later, the emphasis was where it should have been along: on supporting and sustaining developing nations and their already extant social justice movements.
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In the early years co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton charged a $1 annual fee to use the service, but that didn't stop WhatsApp from spreading, particularly in developing nations like Brazil, Indonesia, and South Africa.
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In other words, in this alternate reality, rather than refurbish and resell these iPhones for hundreds of dollars a piece in developing nations, Apple decided to destroy them to harvest roughly $1 worth of gold per device.
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TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Booming cities in developing nations should upgrade slums, build on underused land and promote rental choice to tackle a fast-growing crisis caused by a shortage of affordable housing, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Facebook unveiled its new cryptocurrency Libra on Tuesday, revealing a global vision that imagines poor people without access to financial institutions in developing nations buying the digital token and using it instead of money or traditional banking services.
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Government debt from China's interest free loans due by the end of 2018 will be written off for indebted poor African countries, as well as for developing nations in the continent's interior and small island nations, Xi said.
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Members of the Christian adoption community sometimes spoke of the children in developing nations as an indistinguishable mass, wherein any child of an impoverished parent was viewed as the equivalent of an "orphan" and was labeled as such.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - The charity Medicins Sans Frontieres has formally opposed U.S. firm Pfizer Inc's application for an Indian patent on a highly effective pneumonia vaccine, saying it could deprive many developing nations of cheaper copies of the drug.
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The HFC agreement calls for developed countries, such as the U.S. and European Union, to move more swiftly in cutting their use of HFCs and to provide technical support to developing nations to ensure they have cleaner alternatives.
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"The more affluent developing nations have been leveraging their attractiveness as clients by demanding greater cost offsets in their arms contracts, as well as transfer of more advanced technology and provisions for domestic production options," the report explains.
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Raptopoulos hopes that the progress his company makes in Switzerland will enable the spread of drone delivery, especially to developing nations, where drones could eliminate the need for more traditional forms of infrastructure previously necessary for healthcare operations.
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At the top of the list of what Washington deems as a national security risk is the dispute over Chinese tech giant Huawei, a telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics company, and its work in developing nations' 5G networks.
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As parts of China's economy emphasize technology and services, it will for better or worse export to other low-wage developing nations its best and worst practices and its expertise in manufacturing, managing labor and building mass infrastructure.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The 193-member United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday allowed the Palestinians to act more like a full U.N. member state during meetings in 2019 when they will chair the group of 77 developing nations.
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The former president committed the U.S. to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, and pledged $3 billion to a fund to help developing nations meet their Paris agreement goals.
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LONDON, June 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At least a third of hospitals in developing nations do not have clean running water, a study has found, leading to unsanitary conditions and further spread of disease in drought-hit areas.
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For developing nations like Myanmar - which emerged from decades of economic isolation in 2011 when the military stepped back from direct control of the country - special economic zones are a way of attracting foreign investment and creating jobs.
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The talks will try to find ways to step up curbs on greenhouse gases, help African nations cope with global warming and raise climate finance for developing nations to a goal of $100 billion a year by 2020.
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However, investors want that strategy re-assessed in the wake of the Paris Agreement, which was struck in December and is the first global climate agreement committing developed and developing nations to take action to address global warming.
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Nearly half of 20133 developing nations are unlikely to meet by 2040 the international target for healthcare to be deemed universally available - spending of $86 per person per year - two studies published in The Lancet medical journal said.
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The decision to jettison the project highlights the often competing forces faced by developing nations in Africa which must weigh up benefits of large-scale private investment in industry against the welfare of local communities and the environment.
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Condoms don't work if you don't use them, and if they're applicable to your sex life, pack them, because you never want to rely on a rusting vending machine in skanky bars or off-brands from developing nations.
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Motives unknown Many of the loans are being given out as part of China's signature Belt and Road infrastructure program, which gives loans to developing nations to fund ports, railways and other initiatives across Asia, Europe and Africa.
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Taiwan's Global Medical Instruments Support and Service Program, established in 2005, has also integrated efforts by hospitals across Taiwan to provide usable equipment to developing nations – shipping over 85033,400 items to medical institutions in 33 countries and territories.
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As per the agreement, developed countries such as the United States have to move first to reduce HFCs, followed by developing nations who have been given a longer timeline and aid to meet the accord's climate-friendly goal.
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Still, the Paris Agreement, designed by the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, would be hit by Washington withdrawing, especially if billions of dollars in U.S.-led finance to help developing nations were to dry up, delegates say.
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Trump threatened to cut foreign aid before his election, but last month he signed off on the newly created US International Development Finance Corporation for developing nations in October, backed with $60 billion in loans and other assistance.
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In addition, several GE crops are in development that are designed to benefit human health, such as rice with increased beta-carotene content to help prevent blindness and death caused by vitamin A deficiencies in some developing nations.
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Professor Rajeev Varshney of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics said his team's research would not only help those with severe allergies, but would also be a boon to peanut farmers in developing nations.
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As delegates from the 197 nations that signed the Paris agreement gather in Madrid this week, one of the issues is whether developed nations like ours will provide greater financial help to developing nations to encourage sustainable growth.
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With the frequency and severity of natural disasters on the rise due to a changing climate, it is more urgent than ever that we stabilize the agricultural sector in developing nations in order to minimize loss and suffering.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Scientists in developing nations plan to step up research into dimming sunshine to curb climate change, hoping to judge if a man-made chemical sunshade would be less risky than a harmful rise in global temperatures.
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Harry Kolar, a researcher at IBM, said the long-term vision is to help sell some of these sensor units to NGOs and researchers in developing nations so they can have the data to begin addressing those problems.
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Dr. Raphael, a medical anthropologist and a protégée of the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead, was among the first scientists to challenge milk formula manufacturers, linking a proliferating dependence on formula to high infant mortality rates in impoverished developing nations.
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As Miller's report makes clear, to bar a country from pursuing nuclear energy on the grounds that it will lead to its weaponization is to block a potent path to economic prosperity for developing nations through relatively clean energy.
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Throughout his campaign, Trump had a very protective stance about trade: He held that developing nations have been stealing jobs away from the average American worker in industries like agriculture and the auto industry because labor is cheaper there.
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Bond sales from corporate and sovereign issuers across developing nations have risen to just over $355 billion in the first six months of 2017 — the strongest half year performance in at least 10 years, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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As for the Rio Olympics starting Friday, UBS acknowledged that "In the vast majority of cases, the games are a money-losing proposition for host cities," a trend which worsens for developing nations in comparison to their industrialized counterparts.
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The major stumbling block is a demand for tens of billions of dollars in climate financing for developing nations, at a time when wealthy nations are increasingly feeling an economic pinch, sometimes exacerbated by their own anti-carbon policies.
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Not only would disavowal of America's climate commitments effectively lock the planet into many more gigatons of carbon emissions, such action could prove toxic to international climate cooperation, prompting developing nations like India to scale down their ambition, too.
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According to Medic Mobile founder Josh Nesbit, about 10,000 health workers in developing nations use Medic Mobile's apps today to record data about individuals' health, and prioritize resources so that those with the most pressing needs get help first.
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The Clean Cooking Alliance, a U.N.-backed coalition that produced the report, said innovative approaches to help the poor in developing nations cook more cleanly are growing, with early indications that some can work financially at a large scale.
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Bond sales from corporate and sovereign issuers across developing nations have risen to just over $210 billion in the first six months of 183 — the strongest half-year performance in at least 218 years, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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In court papers, Ng's lawyers accuse the government of trying to silence Ng's advocacy for the conference center, which would have given developing nations a permanent meeting venue in China, in order to slow China's influence over those nations.
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In the face of regular pressure from the U.N. rights council, China has sought to gain the support of other U.N. members, often developing nations, on rights issues to redress what it sees as shortfalls in the current system.
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And those growers largely come from less-wealthy countries: Developing nations — such as top growers China, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka — overwhelmingly account for the world's major producers, according to data from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.
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Environmental groups said the outcome in Bonn was a step in the right direction, but many issues needed to be resolved over the next year, including financial support for developing nations who want to cut emissions and for adaptation.
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About 70% of land in developing nations is undocumented, exposing more than a fourth of the world's population to conflict and evictions, according to Cadasta Foundation, a Washington-based non-profit that develops digital tools to document land data.
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China, for instance, said there are still "huge gaps" in efforts to curb climate change and that rich nations are lagging in pledges to provide $100 billion a year to developing nations from 2020 to help them tackle warming.
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Although developing nations succeeded in getting "loss and damage" included in the Paris Agreement, wealthy nations included a provision to ensure its work could not be used to "provide a basis for any liability or compensation" in the future.
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About 70% of land in developing nations is undocumented, exposing more than a fourth of the world's population to conflict and evictions, according to Cadasta Foundation, a Washington-based non-profit that develops digital tools to document land data.
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The 3R initiative plans to create by 2021 tradable "plastic credits" to support recycling projects in developing nations, on similar lines to carbon offsets, although it aims to be more rigorous in setting rules for the credits, Baroody said.
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The Rotary Foundation is one of the earth's most powerful and impactful charitable organizations, tackling issues like fighting disease, growing local economies in developing nations, supporting education, promoting peace and providing clean drinking water to people across the globe.
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Disputes among the senior climate officials from about 180 nations in Bonn included how rich nations will raise finance to a pledged $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing nations cope with rising temperatures and cut their emissions.
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But it was vague on the details, such as how to measure financial flows to developing nations and how countries will report and monitor curbs on greenhouse gas emissions and ratchet up national goals every five years to limit global warming.
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WUZHEN, China (Reuters) - China ranks fifth among 38 nations globally in standards of cyber governance, a top state-backed internet think tank said on Monday, calling for a 'democratic' internet governance system to eradicate inequalities it said marginalized developing nations.
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In recent months, developing nations such as Pakistan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sierra Leone have either canceled or backed away from previously negotiated BRI commitments, citing worries over high project costs and their impact on national debt and the economy.
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The way the drug war works is that developing nations, such as Colombia and Mexico, act as manufacturing and transshipment countries for drugs, while the US and other wealthy countries make up the great majority of demand for these illicit substances.
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In return for using its logo, Fairtrade sets standards to ensure companies pay a minimum price for cocoa, coffee, tea, bananas and other goods so farmers in developing nations receive better returns and have a safety net if world prices slump.
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The GPE has raised an average of $525 million annually over the last two years, she said, but it requires $2 billion a year to do its work - advising developing nations on quality education plans, providing technical assistance and funds.
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It is a converted MD-10 wide-body airliner that flies all around the world — it just got back from Bangladesh — performing eye surgeries on needy patients in developing nations while also helping to train their doctors, nurses, and medical technicians.
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Developing nations have rushed to borrow billions of dollars in cheap funds as the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks launched aggressive bond buying programmes that have lowered long-term rates and pushed investors into riskier but high-yielding assets.
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In developing nations, having women at the table impacts how policy resources are spent -- either through gender budgeting efforts or simply, such as in the case of climate change, showing how women in the developing world experience issues differently than men.
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Last month, 16 governments including the United States, Japan and Germany and private donors such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates agreed an $80 million fund to help an early phase down of HFCs, hoping to persuade developing nations to sign up.
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Unlike the birthrate in many developing nations, El Salvador's is already low, and the fear of Zika infecting a child seemed to rank third or fourth on the list of reasons many women cited for not wanting to get pregnant.
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During the negotiations, the U.S. and EU pushed for an earlier date for the phase-out of HFCs, while countries like India, Brazil, and China wanted a later date due to the increasing demand for air conditioning in those developing nations.
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Watch More From VICE: Stopping HIV: The Truvada Revolution "This study may serve as a model of mental and physical comorbidity patterns that might be seen in other megacities within Latin America or other rapidly developing nations," the researchers wrote.
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He warned that the reason for the pressure on the democratic order is the rise in income inequality and the hollowing out of the middle class, as the rich get richer and people in developing nations see their lives gradually improve.
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Trump's promises to drop out of all U.N. climate programs could jeopardize a plan by rich nations to provide $100 billion in funds a year by 2020, from public and private sources, to help developing nations cope with global warming.
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Lax standards in airport security across Africa and in many developing nations across the world has been the "elephant in the room for a long, long time," an explosives expert with experience in Somalia told CNN on condition of anonymity.
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Separately, Hela Cheikhrouhou, head of the U.N.'s Green Climate Fund set up to channel money to developing nations to help them cope with climate change, also said on Friday she would stand down in September after a three-year term.
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Russia this month invited banks to bid for managing a Eurobond, exciting emerging debt fund managers who are hard-pressed for new investments as this year's world markets turmoil has seen new debt from developing nations fall to 303-year lows.
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Some 74 million unintended pregnancies occur each year in developing nations, a third of which are due to failed contraception, said the New York-based Guttmacher Institute which studied 43 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Researchers predict that there will be nearly 10 billion people living on Earth by 2050, according to the United Nations, with much of the population growth occurring in developing nations with the highest fertility rates but also the lowest food security.
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The two countries were regarded as generally pro-Western and full of poor and hard-working people eager for jobs in Europe, unlike many developing nations that at the time were frothing with rage at European colonialism and racked by conflict.
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India and some other developing nations wanted a slower phaseout of HFCs for the poorest countries, while the United States wanted a faster timeline that nonetheless gave poor countries more time, according to environmental and development groups monitoring the talks.
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Critics fear Mr. Trump's approach will hurt developing nations and result in an escalating series of tariffs that raise costs for American consumers and industries, potentially harming the very manufacturers Mr. Trump says his trade policy is intended to protect.
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The weak dollar and strong growth in Asia, Europe and many emerging markets will be a boon for these companies, a number of which suffered in past years when the dollar was ascendant and worries about Europe and developing nations abounded.
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Indeed, there is growing concern worldwide over the level of regulation of zoos, wildlife parks and other animal refuges, particularly in developing nations, which may potentially attract travelers to situations in which the animals are abused for their entertainment, or worse.
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As their growth slows in the wealthiest countries, multinational food companies like Nestlé, PepsiCo and General Mills have been aggressively expanding their presence in developing nations, unleashing a marketing juggernaut that is upending traditional diets from Brazil to Ghana to India.
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African debt backlash Debt write-offs for developing nations are usually greeted with great fanfare, such as the IMF and World Bank's Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, or the Paris Club's landmark debt wipe-out in the early 2000s.
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While tourism can be an effective way to spur economic growth in developing nations, especially on islands with few natural resources, the industry can lead to environmental damage and crowd out sectors with longer-term prospects, Foreign Policy's Geert Vansintjan reported.
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The Peace Corps was established in 1961 by President Kennedy in the midst of the Cold War with the Soviet Union when the U.S. was competing for the hearts and minds of people living in so-called Third World developing nations.
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The lawmakers are asking the Senate Appropriations Committee to write into its bill a provision preventing any funds from going to the international body, which uses its money to help developing nations cut greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.
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Liane Schalatek, associate director at the Heinrich Boll Foundation in Washington, who monitors the GCF closely, said few rich countries, with the exception of Sweden and Luxembourg, had provided their fair share of funding to help developing nations tackle climate change.
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While inequality of land ownership is more often associated with developing nations, Scotland embarked on a campaign to ensure land was an asset for the many, not the few, with a landmark bill introduced to the Scottish parliament in 2015.
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In a statement due to be issued this week, more than 155 organizations plan to call for an automatic moratorium on debt payments for developing nations experiencing climate disasters, to free up budgets for response and to avoid "lengthy pledging exercises".
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And he could get that by wiping out international spending — so closing all US embassies and consulates around the world, zeroing all aid to developing nations, ending all military funding for allies, and closing the State Department, among other functions.
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I think he's very much -- I talk to him a lot about it, and he's very much into the fact that -- he believes, like I do, that North Korea has tremendous economic potential like perhaps few other developing nations anywhere in the world.
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The fund is tasked with supporting developing nations to get ready to handle larger amounts of climate finance, but also needs to spend its resources fairly quickly if it is to go back to donors and ask for more in 2018, as planned.
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In New York on Wednesday, Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods echoed Perry's words at the company's investor day, noting developing nations need solultions to generate more electricity as their standard of living increases along with the need for carbon reduction.
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Some WTO members, such as India, insist that a promise to reform the trade rules to boost developing nations, made by WTO ministers in Doha in 2001, must be kept before the WTO can move on to negotiating new rules in other areas.
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Though the bugged-out shake itself won't solve food insecurity in developing nations or put the kibosh on America's agriculture-related methane emissions, its success shows that there's a growing market for insects in the food world and bodes well for the future.
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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Green Climate Fund, set up to channel billions of dollars to help developing nations tackle climate change, must operate more efficiently, with greater political attention needed to make that happen, the United Nations' climate chief said on Thursday.
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In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, lawyers for real estate developer Ng Lap Seng said the case appeared intended to silence his advocacy for a conference center in Macau, which would have given developing nations a permanent meeting venue in China.
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"Such a transformation could position India as the global leader in clean, shared, and connected passenger mobility, while establishing a model of low-carbon solutions for other developing nations to follow," the report, co-authored by U.S.-based consultant Rocky Mountain Institute, said.
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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments can no longer hide from the devastating consequences of wild weather and rising seas, and must dig deeper into their pockets to curb and repair the damage, developing nations said ahead of a key U.N. climate change conference.
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LONDON, Nov 1873 (Reuters) - Emerging stocks rose to a two-week high on Wednesday, fuelled by data showing that economic expansion was intact in many developing nations, although currencies fared more mixed against a tepid dollar ahead of a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting.
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Developing nations agreed the 2015 Paris deal after the rich set a goal of raising climate finance from $100 billion a year from 2020 to help the poor limit greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to more heat waves, floods, storms and rising seas.
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"For many people in developing countries, and especially in slums, just having access to water is their goal," said Nicole Alexander, a senior learning and influencing advisor at CARE, an international aid non-profit that advocates for clean water in developing nations.
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The next major opportunity for governments to make commitments to cut emissions further and faster, and put new money on the table to help developing nations cope with climate change, will be at a September summit organized by the U.N. secretary-general.
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And then there's the looming question of "common but differentiated responsibilities," a longtime principle of international climate negotiations that says that wealthier countries (which have emitted more carbon historically) should do more, earlier, to reduce their emissions, allowing developing nations time to grow.
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"Sometimes my fingers were so swollen because I had to write 300 to 400 pages of a book," said Nigussie, a senior advisor at Light for the World, a charity that provides eye care services and promotes disability rights in developing nations.
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Facebook and Alphabet have spent millions on internet-enabled drones, balloons, and other services to solve the last mile problem of connectivity in rural markets in developing nations, but that solves a problem that affects a smaller population than addressing connectivity in cities.
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Mr. Malpass, who has been deeply involved in trade talks with China, has criticized Beijing's economic practices and called for changes to China's Belt and Road Initiative, which the World Bank has supported, over concerns that it saddles developing nations with debt.
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Sanders' plan would also declare climate change a national emergency, bring the US back on board with the Paris climate agreement, and commit $200 billion in funding to help developing nations cut their emissions and adapt to the effects of climate change.
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Western food companies like Nestlé are aggressively expanding in developing nations, contributing to a new epidemic of diabetes and heart disease, chronic illnesses that are fed by soaring rates of obesity in places that struggled with hunger and malnutrition just a generation ago.
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The group, which helped organize three research groups in concert to come to the conclusions, attributed the carbon growth — likely to be 2 percent year-over-year — to increasing emissions in China and developing nations from burning fossil fuels, aligning with economic growth.
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The group, which helped organize three research groups in concert to come to the conclusions, attributed the carbon growth -- likely to be 2202 percent year-over-year -- to increasing emissions in China and developing nations from burning fossil fuels, aligning with economic growth.
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The group, which helped organize three research groups in concert to come to the conclusions, attributed the carbon growth -- likely to be 2 percent year-over-year -- to increasing emissions in China and developing nations from burning fossil fuels, aligning with economic growth.
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That, Mr. Suzuki said, is the critical question for the climate talks that culminate in Santiago: How much can developing nations reduce their emissions, and how much can richer countries aid that effort through financing green technologies that will eventually benefit everyone?
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That, Mr. Suzuki said, is the critical question for the climate talks that culminate in Santiago: How much can developing nations reduce their emissions, and how much can richer countries aid that effort through financing green technologies that will eventually benefit everyone?
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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Local renewable-energy grids can provide electric power to hundreds of millions of people in developing nations, especially in Africa, but will not attract enough financial backing unless they are subsidized, a group of investors said on Monday.
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This is part of the widespread threat to global sustainability that resource privatization poses, in which people living in wealthy nations across the world have quicker, cheaper, and freer access to the resources of developing nations than do the people living in those nations.
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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Green Climate Fund can become a "completely unprecedented" tool to ramp up action on climate change in developing nations, allowing states, companies and communities to experiment more - as long as its coffers are refilled this year, its new head said.
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The revelations that such banks were mentioned in the code raised concerns of global lenders because they show that the attackers were not focusing solely on small banks in developing nations, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with several banks in the U.S. and Europe.
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OSLO/BARCELONA (Reuters) - An international fund set up to help developing nations tackle global warming approved $745 million for projects on Friday, but a senior official said a goal of signing off on $2.5 billion by the end of 2016 may slip out of reach.
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Oxfam is making a case that these companies are being hypocritical: Publicly they highlight corporate social responsibility, or invest in making the world a better place on top of their products, yet their tax-dodging efforts are costing both American taxpayers and developing nations.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Most developing nations have been absolved of the "original sin" that blocked them using their own currencies to raise money abroad, but their companies' sins have still not been forgiven, as the huge debt they have racked up in "hard" currency attests.
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For developing nations at least, when a central bank like the Fed acts and global capital flows shift, the interest rates needed to keep the local currency from changing value are likely to throw monetary policy out of line with what the local economy needs.
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To that end, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has been plucking top names from Silicon Valley and beyond to build out a team that can oversee efforts as diverse as "curing all disease" to training programmers in developing nations to revamping domestic education and energy policy.
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"To overcome the key obstacle of limited defense budgets in several developing nations, arms suppliers have increasingly utilized flexible financing options, and guarantees of counter-trade, co-production, licensed production, and co-assembly elements in their contracts to secure new orders," the report said.
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But an astounding amount of US electronics recyclers will take old machines at no cost or for pennies per pound, then sell them wholesale to scrapyards in developing nations that often employ low-salary laborers to dig out the several components that are worth anything.
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In a report released on Monday, the Institute for International Finance found that outstanding emerging market debt had seen a "spectacular rise" to $55 trillion in 2016, equal to 215 percent of the GDP of developing nations, which was mostly by non-financial corporate debt.
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While women in developed nations most frequently cited wage equality as a concern — Iceland just made huge strides in this department, and every other country should follow suit — those in developing nations said they most commonly struggled with unfair treatment, harassment, and workplace abuse.
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Norway also promised to double its contribution to the GCF, while the U.N. Adaptation Fund - which backs projects to help developing nations adjust to climate extremes and rising seas - received about $129 million in new donations, its best year since it was launched in 2007.
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Without the "working partnership" that Secretary Kerry noted, including the U.S.-China Joint Presidential Statement on Climate Change in September, COP 21 would have been chalked up as another failed global conference, with developed and developing nations unable to reach any type of consensus.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Food waste could rise by almost a third by 2030 when more than 2 billion tonnes will be binned, researchers said on Tuesday, warning of a "staggering" crisis propelled by a booming world population and changing habits in developing nations.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The increasing digitization of finance, and the move away from cash, could add 6 percent to the annual economic output of the world's developing nations over the next 10 years, according to a new report from the McKinsey consulting firm's research arm.
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Getting men on board has major benefits in developing nations that struggle with booming populations, a trend that puts pressure on limited resources and fuels fresh cycles of poverty, said experts, researchers and policymakers gathered at an international family planning conference this week in Rwanda.
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Eighty percent of the flowers sold in the U.S. are imported, which perpetuates tons of waste and terrible working conditions in developing nations — not to mention droopy flowers that have been in transit for 8 to 10 days by the time they reach stores.
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It's no easy task: Rich nations have been doing it since the Industrial Revolution 23 years ago, and developing nations — eager to lift their poor populations into a more prosperous (and consuming) middle class — rely heavily on cheap sources of coal and natural gas.
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It's no easy task: Rich nations have been doing it since the Industrial Revolution 150 years ago, and developing nations — eager to lift their poor populations into a more prosperous (and consuming) middle class — rely heavily on cheap sources of coal and natural gas.
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And last year, the nonmember observer state of Palestine was chosen as the 2019 leader of the largest bloc of developing nations in the General Assembly, known as the Group of 77, giving Mr. Mansour a more influential gavel and further irritating Israeli leaders.
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But as president, she would not support any trade deal with a nation that did not meet a host of environmental, labor and human rights criteria, a set of standards the United States itself does not yet meet and would likely exclude developing nations.
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But for any of that to happen, it will need to get enough developers building truly useful products, make the blockchain and currency exchange simple enough for mainstream audiences in developing nations, and grow adoption to meaningful levels few cryptocurrency projects have yet achieved.
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To battle climate change effects, "governments of developing nations are increasingly looking to insurance/reinsurance carriers and other capital markets to improve their resiliency to natural disasters as well as give assurances to institutions that are considering investments in a particular region," he said.
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"We applaud President Trump for putting an end to taxpayer funding of groups that promote the killing of unborn children in developing nations," Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee in Washington, the nation's largest anti-abortion organization, said in a statement.
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Salles cited Article 6 of the Paris Climate Agreement while advocating for richer countries to offer assistance to Brazil's efforts to combat climate change, according to the AP, which noted that Article 6 calls for monetary mechanisms to be produced to assist developing nations.
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Friends like Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Osborne, and longtime Grateful Dead mates Mickey Hart and Bob Weir were among the many who lent their services and saluted the organization dedicated to expanding access to eye care in developing nations and eliminating avoidable blindness within our lifetime.
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Take Toms, for example, who ignited the "socially conscious fashion brand" trend with its buy-one-give-one mission with shoes, but has since expanded to coffee, which funds projects to supply clean water for developing nations (this is particularly interesting, since coffee dehydrates the body).
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Global pea protein sales amounted to $73.4 million in 2016, according to research firm Grand View Research, but are forecast to quadruple by 2025, reaching $313.5 million in sales, helped by popular diets free of gluten and lactose and an expanding middle class in developing nations.
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Some people say that this is a great historical injustice, that justice and equity should be at the heart of all future global climate policy — we should prioritize the welfare of developing nations, to compensate for the suffering that will be imposed on them by climate change.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Developing nations' oil and gas income will fall by 50% to 85% this year to a more than two-decade low if current market conditions persist, the International Energy Agency and OPEC said in a rare joint statement on Monday, citing recent IEA analysis.
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Trump's decision to nominate Malpass last Wednesday was met with some pushback, with critics contending Malpass was a Trump loyalist not qualified to lead the bank and holding views that are hostile to the bank's mission, which is to reduce poverty in developing nations through financial assistance.
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Developing nations say the rich are lagging with a commitment dating back to 2009 to provide $100 billion a year by 2020 - from public and private sources alike - to help them switch from fossil fuels to greener energy sources and adapt to the effects of climate change.
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The agreement, for example, requires developing nations to reform child-labor laws as well as to improve the transparency of state-owned companies, and it permits drug makers in the large economies to extend patent protection on many pharmaceuticals that the smaller countries want to manufacture.
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Air pollution linked to 3.2 million new diabetes cases in one year Poor hardest hit While the study adds to the already numerous health concerns regarding air pollution, it will be of particular concern to developing nations, whose smoggy cities could be hampering national economic development.
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Developing nations continued to be the largest buyers of arms in 22014, with Qatar signing deals for more than $23 billion in weapons last year, followed by Egypt, which agreed to buy almost $22015 billion in arms, and Saudi Arabia, with over $8 billion in weapons purchases.
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But if Rubio forges ahead, he could get another $540 billion or so by wiping out international spending — so closing all US embassies and consulates around the world, zeroing out all aid to developing nations, ending all military funding for allies, and closing the State Department, among other functions.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Half of all black gay and bisexual men in the United States are projected to be diagnosed with HIV, a government study shows, in a ratio parallel to the prevalence of the virus among such men in developing nations such as Mauritania and Senegal.
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For many years the peso had been considered an emerging market proxy — it tends to move depending on what's happening in other developing nations, not just on what's occurring at home — but Trump's rhetoric on trade and immigration is now causing the currency to shift based on American politics.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency's low-enriched uranium (LEU) bank is intended to forestall developing nations from building their own uranium enrichment factories — capable of making both reactor fuel and bomb material — by serving as a lender of last resort if the uranium market fails to supply reactor fuel.
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Based on the results of a new study from industry watchdog Basel Action Network and MIT, industry documents obtained by Motherboard, and interviews with industry insiders, it's clear that the e-waste recycling industry is filled with sham operations profiting off of shipping toxic waste to developing nations.
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Women who own small and medium-sized businesses (10-500 employees) are not typically among the poorest segments of the population, and so it is important that the fund makes a concerted effort to reach microentrepreneurs who are the vast majority of women business owners in developing nations.
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If a mix of accelerating automation and trade protectionism is the defining economic climate of the moment, globalisation may well be in decline, and developing nations that failed to capitalize on the past two decades of economic integration - notably those in Africa - may have missed the boat altogether.
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Investing in women and children around the world is not only the right thing to do, but also has a wide-reaching and long-term positive return for the U.S. It reduces poverty and stimulates economic growth in developing nations, ultimately increasing our national security and expanding economic opportunities.
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The report, released on Wednesday, says that developing nations — and to a lesser extent developed economies like the United States — lose enormous amounts of economic potential from the continuing reliance on cash and the difficulty many businesses and individuals encounter when trying to gain access to the financial system.
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LONDON, March 16 (Reuters) - Developing nations' oil and gas income will fall by 50% to 85% this year to a more than two-decade low if current market conditions persist, the International Energy Agency and OPEC said in a rare joint statement on Monday, citing recent IEA analysis.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "In Rotten, Teetering Towers, Garbage Is Piling Up in India" (news article, June 11): The horrific conditions on and near the large dump sites in India are a depressing story that can be told in a growing number of developing nations throughout the world.
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Yeo previously urged the U.S. and other western nations to cease exporting trash to developing nations last year after a Greenpeace investigation found that illegal trash recycling was harming the country's environment due to companies employing dangerous practices such as open-air burning to respond to the influx.
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The US is allegedly trying to blow up one of the top priorities the world's poorest nations are working to achieve at the meeting: a mechanism for developing nations hurt by climate change to seek compensation from the wealthy nations that emitted the largest share of greenhouse gasses.
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With this letter, it hopes to add more activists by bringing attention to startling facts surrounding education in developing nations, such as how girls often miss school when they're on their periods, are married off while they're still children, and have children when they're still of schooling age, among other issues.
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Related: Developing Nations Are Gobbling Up More Meat — and That Could Mean More Antibiotic-Resistant Infections In the United States, antibiotic-resistant infections mostly spread in hospitals, where patients are already vulnerable and have additional opportunities to acquire new bugs via catheters and intravenous lines and other "breaches," Murray said.
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Under Article 282 of the treaty, rich nations are due to pay up to 2200 percent a year of the value of any production — of oil, gas or other minerals — from their continental shelves more than 282 nautical miles (21 km) from land to a fund to help developing nations.
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What Trump discovered is that a majority of people in the United States are against globalization: while it has kept the peace and avoided the horror of global nuclear war, free trade and free immigration have lowered the wages of the working class and middle class across all the developing nations.
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With little fanfare, Mr. Trump signed a bill a little over a week ago that created a new foreign aid agency — the United States International Development Finance Corporation — and gave it authority to provide $20153 billion in loans, loan guarantees and insurance to companies willing to do business in developing nations.
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Some people say that the potential welfare impacts of future climate change are so severe that speed and efficiency are the only morally acceptable guiding principles — we should prioritize reducing emissions as fast as possible, even if it means developing nations have to bear more of the cost than is fair.
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Though companies are not permitted to participate directly in the climate talks, representatives from almost 300 industry groups are free to roam the negotiations in Bonn, Germany, as "stakeholders," and to lobby negotiators on behalf of corporations that may seek to slow action, the developing nations and their allies say.
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For its part, the U.S. removed India from the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) earlier this year, citing unequal access to the Indian market—the program, in place since the 1970s and aimed at developing nations, allowed India to export many of its goods into the U.S. market without tariffs.
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" Jordan Peterson is also a right-wing internet celebrity who has claimed that feminists have "an unconscious wish for brutal male domination," referred to developing nations as "pits of catastrophe" in a speech to a Dutch far-right group, and recently told a Times reporter that he supported "enforced monogamy.
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He's described Robert Mueller's investigation of Trump as "infected with bias," defended the president's comments that some developing nations are "shitholes," and said "if we really cared about safer streets, we would build the wall and secure the border" at a hearing that was interrupted by the father of a slain Parkland student.
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This is not a simple truth: As shuffling alliances and developing nations reshape the world order, and as the massive disparity in income and capital in the US mixes with a future economy defined less by ownership and more by timesharing everything, the non-barons among us have a difficult road ahead.
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A vital source of income to developing nations, travel is the first or second source of export earnings in 20 of the 25 least developed countries, according to the W.T.O., yet a 2000 report from the organization noted that just $23 of every $2910 spent in a developing country stayed in that destination.
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Most of the time, entrepreneurs in the developing world (and in emerging economies) are skipping generations of technology to leapfrog in front of other companies, even in the U.S. It's only a matter of time before developing nations compete at a global level, as the rate of entrepreneurship and technological booms have changed the ecosystem.
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Climate financing was a major bone of contention during negotiations to seal a new global deal to curb and reduce climate-warming greenhouse gases in Paris at the end of 2015, with China and other developing nations adamant that the bulk of the burden should fall to advanced industrialised nations like the United States.
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This Delegated Act exposes those words as hollow — the only commitment is to discrimination and protectionism," she said, adding that "the Delegated Act is discriminatory against the economies of developing nations in Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America which produce palm oil, and it is designed to hurt the livelihoods of millions of small farmers.
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That comes as an Indonesian lobby team is this month due to meet with the United States Trade Representative (USTR) after that body announced in April that it was reviewing the country's eligibility for the Generalized System of Preferences - a U.S. program of giving reduced import tariffs for products sold by poor and developing nations.
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The speech represented exasperation over Beijing's controversial island-building program in the South China Sea and China's demands for American companies to hand over their technology Washington also believes the Chinese government's programs issuing of billion-dollar loans to developing nations are being used as economic blackmail for political gain when repayments can't be made.
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She and others have argued that the I.A.A.F.'s rules will force some women to undergo hormone therapy that could adversely affect their health; will be humiliating; will disproportionately affect women from developing nations who do not conform to Western standards of femininity; and will ultimately lead to some elite women quitting the sport.
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The fund will look to boost women investors by opening up business networking channels, providing small loans, new access to financial markets, online mentoring, technology training and assistance in overcoming legal obstacles, particularly in developing nations, where property ownership laws and other bureaucratic obstacles can present barriers to women looking to start their own businesses.
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Jennings Brown, who's now a senior editor at Gizmodo, reported in June 2015:Only 42 percent of Trump's 1,694,561 followers on Facebook are American, while most come from developing nations like the Philippines, Malaysia, India, South Africa, Indonesia and Colombia … What Trump does have is a large fan base in countries that researchers have deemed hubs for Facebook fraud.
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But developing nations - some of whom have become role models in cutting their planet-warming emissions and adapting to climate impacts - could play a growing role, said Huq and Achala Abeysinghe, a legal adviser on climate issues for the least developed countries and a governance expert with the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development.
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In a nutshell, hitting Paris targets will mean both that developed nations start rapidly reducing toward net-zero emissions by mid-century and that developing nations find a different path to prosperity than the one traveled by the countries around them holding all the wealth and still, on a per-capita basis, emitting the most carbon.
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In a finding that is sure to deepen the rift between developed and developing nations over which countries should shoulder the financial burden for climate effects, the Lancet report shows that lower-income countries experience far greater economic loss as a proportion of their gross domestic product because of climate-related disasters when compared to higher-income countries.
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He began smartly, moving quickly to end the ideological combat of the Reagan years, broke cleanly on environmental issues with his indifferent predecessor — the upgrade of the nation's clean air laws was a major achievement — faced up to the savings and loan scandal and offered creative approaches to the debt of developing nations, especially in Latin America.
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Moreover, Sri Lanka's decision to sign a 99-year lease with a Chinese state-owned company for the Hambantota port to service some of the billions it owes to Beijing has some observers concerned other developing nations doing business with China as part of China's One Belt One Road initiative might fall into similar financial straits.
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Even as the business expanded to more than 100 employees in two warehouses in Ramsey — a manufacturing town founded by French traders and settled in the 1850s on the banks of the Mississippi River — many of its customers switched to competitors overseas, induced by improvements in the technologies of developing nations coupled with falling trade barriers.
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