Developing Countries

A protected bicycle lane

A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car Enrique Penalosa

I think the point about ActionAid is what it’s asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs. Emma Thompson

Increasingly developing countries are

Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don’t want to give. Elizabeth Kolbert

I live in a

I live in a developing country. Fernando Meirelles

Of course, I didn\’t

Of course, I didn’t become an architect, but later on in Iran, I had a lot of contact and discussions with architects because Iran was developing, and I felt we shouldn’t destroy the past and copy completely the West, which is the problem in developing countries. Farah Diba

In Iran, as in

In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country. Farah Diba

The main drawback, of

The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and (especially) civil society. David Souter

I don’t think that

I don’t think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year process, not a three day event) would have built awareness, and would probably have led to more substantive conclusions at the end of the first summit meeting. Civil society may have gained a … Read more

As developing countries became

As developing countries became bigger traders, it was clear that the old way of doing business wouldn’t fly. To get them back to the bargaining table, the wealthy countries had to offer something more: a new round of talks that would use trade as a tool to help developing countries grow. Daniel Altman

Experts now talk about

Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity. Damian Thompson