This includes 33 countries in the less developed regions

However, whereas the rural population of the more developed regions is declining, that of the less developed regions continues to increase despite rural urban migration.

Furthermore, the growth rate in China s less developed eastern regions amounts to less than half of the national average.

Most countries in the less developed regions, excluding the least developed countries, also conducted a census during the same period.

Of the 154 countries or areas in the more developed regions and the less developed regions, excluding the least developed countries, 134 reported statistics on population by sex and age at least once during the period 1995 2003.

The less developed regions are undergoing rapid urbanization, a process that is projected to continue for decades to come.

(c) Regions with many least developed countries

Migration is inevitably from less developed to more developed countries.

2. Measures developed and implemented in some regions

In addition, the successful approach of promoting investment in specific subsectors as well as in particular regions within a country with a focus, where feasible, on less developed regions will be continued and broadened.

Organized criminal activity is no longer affecting developed regions only.

But this market is less developed outside the US.

This is especially the case in less developed countries.

40. All nations big or small, developed or less developed wanted open access to information.

Table 4 Unemployment rate, selected developed economies and regions, 2002 2004 (Percentage)

In contrast, for the less developed regions, the estimated rate is 420 deaths per 100,000 live births, with Africa having an estimated rate of 630 maternal deaths per 100,000 births.

There are persistent, if less severe, problems in developed countries.

The EU needs to reach out to its less developed neighbors.

Officials with substantial and successful experience in local governments, ministries, or SOEs were deliberately promoted and cross posted to less developed regions to spread know how, technology, and best practices and processes.

They developed national case studies, which give an overview of drought in these regions.

But such external shocks may also have indirect effects by aggravating the disparities between developed and developing countries and creating additional incentives for mass migration to rich, less affected, and more adaptable regions.

Overall global wealth has grown but is less and less evenly distributed within countries, within regions and in the world as a whole.

The central and southern regions are relatively hotter and less humid than the northern coast.

Concise country guidebooks and rapid screening tools have been developed in some countries and regions.

Other regions ranged between 15 and 68 , possibly reflecting the presence of some well developed urban areas and some poorly developed rural areas.

Now the crisis has spread, predictably, to emerging markets and less developed countries.

Why are African states less developed than Western states? I'd like to know...

During the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons, some regions were very active, others less so.

The regional lists were originally developed independently without much concern about specifications used in other regions.

There is a generally recognized capacity gap within the multilateral trading system between the more developed and less developed countries developing countries have less capacity to negotiate trade agreements and to implement them.

Transnational Crime, particularly terrorism, is no longer seen as a menace threatening only those less developed areas in the remote parts of our world. Today, the evils of terrorism have reached all regions of the world.

Less than 20 per cent of them have a presence in both major regions and each of them has barely more than one subsidiary in these regions.

In some other regions procedures and mechanisms of a purely political and diplomatic nature are being developed.

Unfortunately, this opportunity was squandered in the Uruguay Round, as developed countries advanced their own interests at the expense of less developed countries.

That is true for developed economies no less than for a developing economy like China.

In the mandible, the angular and coronoid processes are less well developed than in Holochilus .

Tailoring refers to the practice used by some organizations of requesting less detailed data from countries that are considered to be statistically less developed.

That included the necessary transfer of advanced space technology by the more developed countries to the less developed, to bridge the gap between them.

For example, less than 10 of people in the Caprivi and Ohangwena regions have access to toilet facilities, compared to over 80 of people in Erongo, Karas, and Khomas regions.

Some regions, like the Sava region in the northeast of Madagascar, seem to be less protected against such crimes.

It is particularly encouraging to see initiatives in regions previously less active in the area of disaster risk reduction.

China recognizes, too, that what separates less developed from more developed countries is not only a gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge.

There are no less developed countries, with the possible exception of Ukraine, in the top 15.

By contrast, less developed countries that borrow in foreign currencies may run out of currency reserves.

(j) Promoting industrial growth in less developed areas with a focus on employment and income generation.