Reuters
| Feb 5, 2013
A British company has cooked up an ingenious, safe and efficient alternative to the dangerous kerosene lamps widely used throughout the developing world. The electric "Gravity Light" costs just five dollars, and uses the force of a slowly falling...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 5, 2012
The UN's Green Climate Fund needs a lot more bucks if it has any hope of making the smallest dent in the climate change disasters hitting the poorest countries the hardest. The UN estimates developing companies will need $67 billion a year by 2030...
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ORF
| Oct 27, 2011
After a repressive history, Uruguay's left-wing government is paving the way for a new generation of digital-savvy, globalized nationals by being the first country to give every child their own laptop.
Al Jazeera English
| Jul 14, 2012
Engineers in California are developing ways to turn mobile phones into "mobile microscopes," to help diagnose deadly diseases like malaria, HIV and tuberculosis. The technology within these devices could help revolutionize health care in the devel...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 23, 2012
For the first time in almost 70 years, the World Bank could have a president who is not an American citizen. A Nigerian and a Colombian have now joined the race as candidates to replace Robert Zoellick after he steps down in June. Al Jazeera's...
Earth Focus
| Dec 20, 2011
This original investigative report by The Ecologist Film Unit and Link TV's Earth Focus -- which is now leading to calls for an overhaul of how the UN does business -- shows the consequences of incentive programs like the Clean Development Mechani...
— May 18 at 06:47 am
...been a donor country, as she referred to the USD 2 billion aid to Afghanistan. "What we talked about when we say transforming the partnership, t...
— Mar 9, 2012 at 12:09 pm
...weapons are stored in some of Syria's most restive regions: the north and middle of the country. In response to a fear that the agents could fal...
— Jan 7 at 06:01 pm
...clock in its attempts to keep Iranians online. Ironically, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s office has a Facebook page, which was ...
— Jan 16, 2012 at 02:55 pm
...suggested London 2012 organisers could look to Saudi Arabia’s management of the annual Hajj to Mecca, which sees the country dealing with millio...
— Nov 19, 2012 at 11:38 am
...troops from the provinces to protect the capital. Many thousands have died in the conflict which is increasingly developing into a civil war bet...
A developing country, also called a less-developed country, is a nation with a low living standard, underdeveloped industrial base, and low Human Development Index relative to other countries. There is no universal, agreed-upon criteria for what makes a country developing versus developed and which countries fit these two categories, although there are general reference points such as the size of a nation's GDP compared to other nations.
Countries with more advanced economies than other developing nations but that have not yet demonstrated signs of a developed country, are often categorized under the term newly industrialized countries.
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