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| | Commonwealth of Learning - Connections/EdTech News, December 2002 |
 | | Working with a variety of organisations in, or on behalf of, developing Commonwealth countries, the interns are learning about the challenges facing the developing world, how education is a broad-based and multi-faceted discipline and how the skills that they will develop during their internship can be transferable to other employment. | | | COL has sponsored national forums on developing and/or revising national distance education policies in several countries and is an active member of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) working groups on teacher training and distance education. | | | What happens to copyright law in one country will be noticed in other countries that are struggling with similar issues. |
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http://www.col.org/news/connections/html/0212.htm
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| | Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme: The scheme is a joint initiative between the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and UK universities, to jointly support scholarships for students from developing Commonwealth countries who would not otherwise be able to study in the United Kingdom. | | | Commonwealth Academic Fellowships: Support the cost of up to six months work in the United Kingdom, for staff of universities in certain developing Commonwealth countries. | | | Government funding for awards comes from the Department for International Development, which supports awards for developing Commonwealth countries, and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which supports awards for other Commonwealth countries. |
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| | PART IV: ISSUES RELATED TO LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES |
| | Both developing country members and applicants should raise the issue of setting standard terms of accession for developing countries in all the relevant fora, such as the Ministerial Conference, General Council and Accession Working Parties. | | | Developed countries often pressure the applicant developing countries into foregoing some of the concessions that presently exist for developing countries and/or into offering concessions in areas not covered by universally applicable WTO agreements, such as, for example, in government procurement or in relation to the Information Technology Agreement. | | | Firstly, countries seeking accession have to undertake and assume all legal obligations under all the WTO Agreements and if there is any impediment to this in existing national laws, the necessary amendments have to be effected. |
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| | Akio Obara |
| | Of such deaths in developing countries, the great majority could have been avoided if those countries enjoyed the same health and social conditions as the developed countries. | | | As a result of malnutrition, many children in the developing countries are underweight and are short in height for their age. | | | So, many diseases in the developing countries are preventable, and by prevention, the great number of children in the developing countries would not die. |
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http://www.fauxpress.com/kimball/wh/obara.htm
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| | marshall a. leaffer and marquette |
| | n80 [*22] Thus, the benefits to developing countries are the provisions of the TLT that encourage standardization of administrative procedures, leading to reduced paperwork burdens and resulting in less errors by applicants in the registration process. | | | Currently, eleven additional countries have ratified or acceded to the TLT, which became effective on August 1, 1996. | | | Consequently, these same countries resist allocating scarce governmental resources to the enforcement of patent rights. |
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| | Universal Food Security - Important Dimensions |
| | Intensive and indiscriminate use in developing countries of certain hazardous herbicides, pesticides and the like, many of which are banned in their country of origin, frequently endangers those exposed directly or indirectly. | | | Nevertheless, there are many compelling reasons why governments of developing countries wanting to improve the reliability of their food supplies should study seriously mechanisms for building up food reserves that they would mutually control and to which all have due access in times of need. | | | Free access to developing countries by foreign investors who would be treated as if they were nationals makes no political, social or economic sense for the poor. |
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http://www.southcentre.org/publications/food/Foodtrans-02.htm
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| | Lome Trade Lome |
| | The performance of ACP countries in manufactured goods overall has deteriorated, the increase in their export volume having reached only 1.5% in 1988-97, while developing countries as a whole were able to double their export volume in the same period. | | | Only five ACP countries had export growth equal to or greater than the other developing countries as a result of their margin of preference: Mauritius, Jamaica and, to a lesser extent Madagascar in the textiles sector; and Kenya and Zimbabwe for cut flowers and fruit and vegetables. | | | Today, 92% of the products originating in the ACP countries enter the Community duty free (abolition of duties without quantitative limits). |
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| | TRIPs Review 27.3(b) Capacity Building Priorities |
| | The reciprocal arrangements with developed countries for the use of their protected plant varieties or germplasm, which have been produced mainly to meet the needs of northern temperate industrial agriculture, are not usually to the advantage of the majority of farmers in developing countries. | | | This is the option favoured by many developing countries whose genetic wealth and the food and livelihood security of their citizens could be threatened by monopoly ownership of biological resources through patents. | | | This is an urgent agenda, which, if not tackled promptly and effectively, will ultimately increase the legislative burden on, and reduce the benefits to, Commonwealth developing countries, which have much to contribute because the sovereign rights they have over the biological resources that industrial countries need. |
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| | Ministerial Section |
| | However, the legitimate needs of developing countries, in relation to market access for their export products and the effective use of their natural resources for the benefit of their populations, should be fully taken into account within the context of the work on the interaction between trade and the environment. | | | We are of the view that these programmes could be improved, through a better collaboration between the ACP States and the organisers of these programmes in determining the course content and in the selection of resource persons, who should have a sound understanding of development and, as far as possible, come from developing countries. | | | We stress that, due to capacity constraints, ACP States have not been able to actively take part in the current request and offer negotiations, as there are few sectors in the other countries in which the local enterprises from ACP States can meaningfully participate. |
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http://www.ictsd.org/ministerial/cancun/docs/acp_decl.htm
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| | Packet Radio: Applications for Libraries in Developing Countries (1993) - UDT Series on Data Communication Technologies and Standards for Libraries |
| | The selection of developing countries is based roughly on the United Nations Country Classifications (United Nations, 1990). | | | Unfortunately, the primary systems that support this form of document supplyinterlibrary loan and document deliveryare also limited in developing countries. | | | When proposing the use of information technology in developing countries, it is important to ensure that the technology is appropriatethat is, it is "suited to the skills of its users as well as to the needs of clientele [and is] adapted to the environment in which it is to be used" (Akhtar, 1990b:92). |
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| | V1003 Science and Society - World Population |
| | To appreciate the importance of this number, there are 26 new babies born every second, and 25 of these will have been born in developing countries. | | | Because most of the world's population is in developing countries and because they have positive population growth trends, the majority of future population growth will occur in developing nations. | | | These countries were able to achieve replacement-level fertility (enough children born to replace death of parents) within 15-30 years - this is good news. |
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http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/dees/V1003/lectures/population
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| | South Bulletin 41 - Developing Countries, Population & the Environment |
| | If we consider the long history of slavery, abuse, exploitation and misery that, for centuries, have been imposed on developing countries by the main industrial nations, we could conclude in a gigantic environmental, economic and social debt, with which industrial countries have so far gotten away. | | | The unsustainable growth of the population of developing countries is closely related to the extreme levels of poverty they must endure, partly a consequence of the established international economic order, designed by industrial nations at Bretton Woods to enhance their own interests, and imposed upon the rest of the world. | | | The perception of population growth in developing countries as the culprit of worldwide environmental damage is a fallacy that deserves to be eradicated. |
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http://www.southcentre.org/info/southbulletin/bulletin41/bulletin41-02.htm
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| | Structural Adjustment — a Major Cause of Poverty |
| | However, for developing countries to try to compete in the global market place at the same level as the industrialized nations, and before their foundations are stable, is almost economic suicide. | | | Countries are in the driving seat only as the chauffeur of the Washington Consensus limousine. | | | Prior to 1980, many countries quite deliberately adopted policies that were designed to insulate their economies from the world market in order to give their domestic industries an opportunity to advance to the point where they could be competitive. |
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| | Promoting development, fighting poverty (The European Union: A Global Player) |
| | Central to the new strategy are attempts to integrate developing countries into the international economic system, to encourage them in their efforts at regional integration, to use the EU's considerable expertise and financial means to provide a critical mass, as in the transport sector, and to relate more closely to what other donors are doing. | | | The lynchpin of the EU's development policy is the Cotonou Agreement which binds it with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and is the most ambitious and comprehensive agreement between developed and developing countries. | | | The EU has agreed to implement an immigration and asylum policy founded on the principle of partnership with the originating countries and regions. |
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| | RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF PHARMACEUTICAL PATENTS: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TRIPs AGREEMENT |
| | They were included to allow developing countries time to elaborate and adopt the required legislation, and to design any other policies necessary to minimize the possible negative effects of the new rules. | | | In this latter country, a decision by the Supreme Court of March 9, 1998, affirmed the exhaustion of rights doctrine with regard to the importation of copyrighted items sold in the "gray market" (Quality King Distributors Inc. v. | | | This provision has been judicially challenged as inconsistent with the TRIPS Agreement, but held legitimate so far by courts. |
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| | Asia Times - Asia's most knowledgable news source |
| | This is problematic since developing countries often have weak - and sometimes non-existent - anti-trust laws or weak enforcement capabilities, particularly in relation to foreign multinationals. | | | While advanced countries and their companies are pushing hard for the strengthening of intellectual property rights (IPRs) around the globe, there is now a strong movement among the governments of developing countries, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and academia to counter this trend. | | | Since most developing countries are users rather than creators of new technologies, it is not necessary to adopt strong IPR protection, which is costly, among other things, in the form of royalty payments to corporations in industrialized countries. |
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| | Welcome to Third World Network (TWN) |
| | This paper focuses on the implications of the WTO negotiations on industrial tariffs or NAMA (non agricultural market access) for developing countries. | | | It considers the effects of IP in the special situation of developing countries. | | | Current proposals will erode present policy flexibility to use tariffs for industrial development and also affect the possibility for long term industrialization in developing countries. |
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| | ILO-Poverty and Structural Adjustment Some Remarks on Tradeoffs between Equity and Growth-Rolph van der Hoeven |
| | (1987): The theory of taxation for developing countries (New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press). | | | The main challenge for countries in this group is a resumption of growth and a reduction of inequality allowing the whole population to benefit from growth. | | | Countries which reduced income inequality and had a reasonable growth record relied amongst others on a set of incomes policies which included an active minimum wage policy. |
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| | UNDP Poverty Report 2000 |
| | About a fifth of developing countries receive four-fifths of total private capital flows, and official development assistance, which is supposed to counterbalance the effects of market forces, is now a third lower than in 1990 in real terms - and shows no prospects of recovering. | | | That is particularly important at a time when industrial countries and many multilateral institutions are exhorting developing countries, in the name of good governance, to be more accountable to their citizens. | | | The countries are also wary of new conditionalities. |
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| | A/RES/50/103. Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s |
| | Least developed countries should strengthen subregional, regional and interregional cooperation in order to benefit from economies of scale and to attract foreign direct investment more easily from developed and other developing countries. | | | The Second United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held in Paris in 1990, adopted the Paris Declaration and the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s. | | | The extremely low export capacity of LDCs, their very low level of export receipts, and the fluctuation and the resulting sharp limitation on their capacity to import, are the major structural constraints to developing LDC trade. |
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| | Census of Human Capacity |
| | Population Experts in Developing Countries: A Directory includes contact information for 1,187 population experts currently working in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania who have given their specific consent to be included. | | | Population Experts in Developing Countries: A Summary Report, offers a profile of population experts' characteristics, including their training and areas of specialization. | | | Through this study, IIE collected and analyzed data on population experts to create an international picture of the geographic distribution of population expertise in developing countries. |
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| | Article asp model |
| | Section 502(b)(1)(C) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 2462(b)(1)(C)) specifies that European Union member states may not be designated as beneficiary developing countries for purposes of the GSP. | | | Pursuant to sections 501 and 502(a)(1) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the "Act") (19 U.S.C. 2461, 2462(a)(1)), the President is authorized to designate countries as beneficiary developing countries for purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). | | | The United States is withdrawing preferential tariff treatment for seven East European countries as a result of their changing political and economic status. |
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| | SSRN-Eliminating Excessive Tariffs on Exports of Least Developed Countries by Bernard Hoekman, Francis Ng, Marcelo Olarreaga |
| | Considering that peak-tariff items account for only a small share of developing countries' exports, granting least developed countries duty-free access would have only a negligible impact on other developing countries. | | | Such tariff peaks are often concentrated in products developing countries want to export: agricultural and food products - especially such staples as sugar, cereals, and fish; fruits and vegetables; food products with a high sugar content; and tobacco and alcoholic beverages - and products from such labor-intensive sectors as apparel and footwear. | | | But tariffs more than three times the average most-favored-nation duty are not uncommon in the Quad and have a disproportionate effect on exports of least developed countries. |
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| | Population: Rich Countries Stingy on Population [Funding] |
| | So far, the developing countries have produced an impressive $10.7 billion, while the industrialized nations of the world have only come up with $2.5 billion. | | | Industrialized nations are not keeping up with the pace of developing nations in the drive to raise funds for reproductive health and education. | | | Of the first sum, developing nations were expected to contribute $11.3 billion, and industrialized nations were to raise $5.7 billion. |
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| | Developing country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Developing countries are in general countries which have not achieved a significant degree of industrialization relative to their populations, and which have a low standard of living. | | | The application of the term 'developing country' to all of the world's least developed countries could be considered inappropriate: a number of poor countries are not improving their economic situation (as the term implies), but have experienced prolonged periods of economic decline. | | | Countries with long-term civil war or large-scale breakdown of rule of law or non-development-oriented dictatorship ("failed states") (e.g. |
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| | Country Comparisons |
| | Population: for developing countries and territories, from OECD | | | GNP: for developing countries and territories, from OECD | | | Independent Countries: table, scores on political and civil liberties |
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| | www.businessinafrica.net news Commonwealth countries asked to address digital divide |
| | The CAPDD aims to promote the wider use of ICTs in Commonwealth countries, to bridge the digital divide and promote socio-economic development of member countries, particularly the small states and developing countries. | | | Chairman De Bono stated that this new initiative was reviewed and approved by 33 member countries of the Organisation at its recent annual Council meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka in September 2004. | | | The new CTO Chairman indicated that the new CTO's range of interventions in member countries now goes well beyond the contributions of the organisation as recognised in such previous Commonwealth reports as 'A Commonwealth Action Programme for the Digital Divide', 2001 and 'Commonwealth Functional Co-operation: Report of the Committee of the Whole', CHOGM 2003. |
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