Developing Countries

A developing country is a country with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries. However, this definition is not universally agreed upon. There is also no clear agreement on which countries fit this category. The term low and middle-income country (LMIC) is often used interchangeably but refers only to the economy of the countries: The World Bank classifies the world's economies into four groups, based on Gross National Income per capita, re-set each year on July 1: high, upper-middle, lower-middle, and low income countries. Least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and …

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ADB: Asian Development Bank · 21 June 2024 English

Rapid demographic changes in Malaysia and Viet Nam could disrupt traditional family support for older people.

(Asian Development Bank [ADB] 2017). Although developing countries in the region still have relatively young


UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 21 June 2024 English

and SDGs (TESS), collaborated to bring together government officials from both developed and developing countries with leading experts from think tanks and international organizations in an informal and off-the-record

government officials from both developed and developing countries with leading experts from think tanks and


RECOFTC: Center for People and Forests · 21 June 2024 English

Staff capable of executing tasks assigned to them, and sufficient financial resources to enable them to do so Good forest governance helps countries optimize the production of forest products and …

and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries SMEs Small or medium enterprises VPA Voluntary value chains for smallholder tree growers in developing countries. Land Use Policy 120: 106227. https://www


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 21 June 2024 English

This paper examines the potential of aid for trade to advance trade liberalization in developing countries.

SUMMARY Today, external financial support to developing countries for trade policy reforms accounts for only lending to increase gains from trade for developing countries. Like the WTO’s multilateral trade negotiations trade for advancing trade liberalization in developing countries.2 The second section describes the historical part of the typical prescriptions for developing countries’ policy reforms then known as the Washington ratio reached 61.1% at its peak in 2006, and developing countries that liberalized trade in the 1980s enjoyed


ERIA: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN & East Asia · 20 June 2024 English

ERIA Discussion Paper 2024-13, No. 520

avenues for firms from both developed and developing countries to internationalise, especially small and and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from developing countries (World Bank, 2020). Recent evidence suggests


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 20 June 2024 English

Selected Issues

“Minimum Wages and Informal Employment in Developing Countries”, Mimeo (2017). Newmark, D., M. Schweitzer


Cato Institute · 20 June 2024 English

Subsidies, tariffs, and other protectionist policies have long aided American agriculture, though this is not a uniquely American phenomenon. Governments around the world shell out roughly $630 billion a year …

are even more pernicious for farmers in developing countries who cannot compete with artificially low


Southern Voice · 20 June 2024 English

2 3 institutions are expressed predominantly in the On the other hand, the perspectives of Global language of ‘relationships’ and ‘partnerships’, and South actors transcend immediate concerns of focus on …

Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries KFPE), Switzerland Anuja Desai British Council Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE), Switzerland Felix Asante Institute


Chatham House · 20 June 2024 English

Crises and shocks – including disease outbreaks, financial crises and conflicts – can create windows of opportunity to trigger universal health reforms. This report examines when and how such reforms …

populations – a trend that will be seen in many developing countries over the coming years. It will be even process linked to economic convergence, where developing countries catch up with developed ones, leading to


IGAD: Intergovernmental Authority on Development · 20 June 2024 English

05 01 The 42nd Extraordinary Summit of the IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government IGAD Summit in Entebbe Addresses Regional Challenges The 42nd Extraordinary Session of the IGAD …

Platform and Cities secondary cities in developing countries that are Alliance already struggling to


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