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unusual facts about developing countries



Commission on Health Research for Development

The Commission on Health Research for Development was an independent international initiative with the aim of improving health and development in what were then called ‘developing countries’.

Community-based rehabilitation

In the beginning of the 1960s, efforts to establish rehabilitation centers in developing countries had taken hold in urban centers, but failed to provide support and assistance to disabled people in rural areas throughout the world.

International Development Enterprises

iDE was founded in 1982 by Paul Polak, is devoted to the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of affordable, scalable micro-irrigation and low-cost water recovery systems throughout the developing world.

KioskNet

KioskNet is a system, developed at the University of Waterloo, to provide very low cost Internet access to rural villages in developing countries, based on the concept of delay-tolerant networking.

Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund

eBay founder and social entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam donated $100 million to their alma mater Tufts University to create the fund, which will offer millions of tiny loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.

Rahmatu'lláh Muhájir

In 1958, he and his family left Indonesia to travel all over the world, inspiring mass teaching campaigns in several developing countries.

Schimmelbusch mask

The device was invented by Curt Schimmelbusch in 1890, and was used until the 1950s (though it is still applied in some developing countries).

Trade and development

It is important to recognise that the issues facing LDCs and middle-income developing countries differ significantly.


see also

Access to Medicine Index

In July 2008, Bill Gates mentioned the Access to Medicine Index in an interview with Time Magazine as an example of an incentive that works to give businesses credit for what they are already doing to address the challenges of access to medicine in developing countries.

Adela Investment Company

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy proposed the Alliance for Progress between the United States and the developing countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Aga Khan Development Network

The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development with its affiliates, the Tourism Promotion Services, Industrial Promotion Services, and Financial Services, seek to strengthen the role of the private sector in developing countries by supporting private sector initiatives in the development process.

AGETIP

The AGETIP model is similar to a Social Fund, a term more commonly used for a similar type of institution in developing countries in Latin America and African countries outside West Africa.

Air Passenger Duty

The tourist minister of Kenya, Najib Balala, criticised the Air Passenger Duty for hurting tourism and economy in developing countries.

Amy Smith

Amy B. Smith, inventor of appropriate technology for developing countries and MIT lecturer

Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade

Since its launch, the Network has attracted 40 member research institutions from the developing countries of the region and has gained some additional partners, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Bicycle industry

World Bicycle Relief, which specializes in large-scale, comprehensive bicycle distribution programs to aid poverty relief and disaster recovery initiatives in developing countries around the world, includes among its sponsors such notable companies as Accell Group, Bicycle Technologies International, Giant Bicycles, GT Bicycles, Quality Bicycle Products, Shimano, SRAM Corporation, Specialized Bicycle Components, and Trek Bicycle Corporation.

BUV

Basic Utility Vehicle - low-cost transportation to provide mobility, freedom and economic hope to people in rural areas of developing countries

Chrysotile

The CFMEU pointed out that most exports go to developing countries.

Computer room

Telecentre, a public place in developing countries where people can access Internet

Creative industries

Reflecting the growing interest in the potential of creative industries in developing countries, in October 2011 a Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy was created within the Indonesian government with well-known economist Dr Mari Pangestu appointed as the first minister to hold the position.

Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World

Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World is a 2003 documentary film directed by American filmmaker John Scagliotti about the issues experienced by gay, lesbian and transgender people in developing countries.

Dave Dryden

Dave is the chair person of Sleeping Children Around the World charity (founded by his father) which provides bed kits to children in developing countries.

Despro

Annually Switzerland invests about 2.8 billion Swiss francs to fight poverty and to support the economic growth in the developing countries and Eastern European countries, including the CIS.

Digital sweatshop

The crowdsourcing company has a partnership with Samasource, a non-profit organization that brings computer based work to developing countries, they have currently outsourced millions of repetitive microwork to the Kenyan refugee camps.

Economy of Kuwait

(KPC), an integrated international oil company, is the parent company of the government's operations in the petroleum sector, and includes Kuwait Oil Company, which produced oil and gas; Kuwait National Petroleum Co., refining and domestic sales; Petrochemical Industries Co., producing ammonia and urea; Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co., with several concessions in developing countries; Kuwait Oil Tanker Co.

Feed the Future Initiative

At the 2009 G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy, President of the United States Barack Obama announced a $10.15 billion commitment over 3 years to an initiative that would focus on reducing hunger and poverty in developing countries in Sub-Saharah Africa and South East Asia.

Hallgeir H. Langeland

In 2001, Hallgeir Langeland nominated Fidel Castro for the Nobel Peace Prize for sending medical and engineering aid to developing countries.

Herfindahl index

For formation of effective market economy and competition economic conditions in different sectors of market, the developing countries also use Herfindahl index (see Revaz Lordkipanidze).

IBJ

International Bridges to Justice is a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries.

Illicit financial flows

A 2013 paper, authorized by Raymond Baker, Director of the Global Financial Integrity estimated illicit financial flows "out of developing countries are approximately $1 trillion a year".

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

Located in Barcelona, one of the international capitals of Urbanism, the institution develops a multidisciplinary program that explores urban and international territorial phenomena, placing especial emphasis on the opportunities that emerges from developing countries and the cultural, economic and social values that architecture may contribute to society.

International Association of Students in Agricultural and Related Sciences

1989 32nd Congress in Nairobi (Kenya); Topic: Agriculture, Underproduction and its Future Prospects in Developing Countries

International Partnership for Microbicides

The International Partnership for Microbicides or IPM is a non-profit product development partnership (PDP) founded by Dr. Zeda Rosenberg in 2002 to prevent HIV transmission by accelerating the development and availability of a safe and effective microbicide for use by women in developing countries.

International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth

Located in Brasília, IPC-IG facilitates South-South learning with the aim of expanding developing countries’ knowledge and capacities to design, implement and evaluate effective policies towards the attainment of high inclusive growth.

Kyoto Energy

Kyoto Energy was a Nairobi-based renewable energy company, providing solar-driven utilities for developing countries.

Les Aspin Center for Government

The Center's mission is to offer students who are interested in public policy a chance to work and study in the United States capital or study abroad in developing countries like Kenya and Tanzania through its Africa program.

Michael Porter

His New England Journal of Medicine research article, "A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System" (July 2009), lays out a health reform strategy for the U.S. His work on health care is being extended to address the problems of health care delivery in developing countries, in collaboration with Dr. Jim Yong Kim and the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health.

Mohammed Naseeb Qureshy

In 1989, Dr. Qureshy planned and established the Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned (NAM) and other Developing Countries.

Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development

The humanitarian engagement of the Novartis Foundation goes back to the 60s, when the Basel companies Ciba, Geigy, Sandoz, Durand&Huguenin, Hoffmann-La Roche and Lonza founded the Basel Foundation for Developing Countries.

Plant manufactured pharmaceuticals

Increasing the need for agricultural societies in developing countries will help certain countries to export and make trade alliance with other countries and with the development of the therapies that can control diseases like Cholera and HIV/AIDS.

Protectionism

Most economists, including Nobel prize winners Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman, believe that free trade helps workers in developing countries, even though they are not subject to the stringent health and labour standards of developed countries.

Rehman Sobhan

Presently, Rehman Sobhan heads the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a non-governmental research organization in developing countries.

RoughRider Wheelchair

Thirty years ago, Ralf Hotchkiss, an engineer with paraplegia and a frequent traveler to developing countries, saw the need for a high quality and rugged chair that could withstand conditions in rough terrain.

Singer–Prebisch thesis

This provides an interesting twist on Wallerstein's neo-Marxist interpretation of the international order which faults differences in power relations between 'core' and 'periphery' states as the chief cause for economic and political inequality (However, the Singer–Prebisch thesis also works with different bargaining positions of labour in developed and developing countries).

Social Fund

Social fund in developing countries which provides financing (usually grants) for small-scale public investments

South African wireless community networks

The Wireless Africa programme of the Meraka Institute is researching ways to develop sustainable information and communications technology in developing countries.

TerreStar-1

Following TerreStar's file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a movement had been formed by the NGO A Human Right to purchase TerreStar-1 and to use it to provide free basic Internet access to developing countries.

Twee

Komitee Twee of the Netherlands, an association helping children in the developing countries

United Nations Climate Change conference

# Flexible Mechanisms: The "flexibility" mechanisms which the United States had strongly favored when the Protocol was initially put together, including emissions trading; Joint Implementation (JI); and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) which allow industrialized countries to fund emissions reduction activities in developing countries as an alternative to domestic emission reductions.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNCTAD V in the wake of the Nairobi Conference, held in Manila 1979 focused on the key issues of: protectionism in developing countries and the need for structural change, trade in commodities and manufactures aid and international monetary reform,technology, shipping, and economic co-operation among developing countries.

Universal Nut Sheller

In 2003 Brandis teamed up with a group of returned Peace Corps volunteers from Wilmington, NC to form the Full Belly Project, dedicated to designing and distributing unique appropriate technologies in developing countries.

Warwick McKibbin

They argue that Kyoto Protocol based Carbon trading systems are too inflexible/brittle to attract developing countries (particularly China & India).