FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2009 file photo, a bank clerk counts U.S. dollar notes near bundles of Chinese renminbi notes at a bank in Hefei in central China's Anhui province. The dollar edged up Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, breaking a decline that's caused developing countries to worry that the sinking U.S. currency is making their exports expensive and threatening their fledgling economic recoveries ...

The dollar edged up Thursday, breaking a decline that's caused developing countries to worry that the sinking U.S. currency is making their exports expensive and threatening their fledgling economic recoveries.

The dollar edged up Thursday, breaking a decline that's caused developing countries to worry that the sinking U.S. currency is making their exports expensive and threatening their fledgling economic recoveries. A lower dollar _ and China's yuan, which is... China - United States dollar - Developing country - Economic - Asia

Food prices in developing nations continue to be "stubbornly high ... despite a strong cereal harvest this year, and 31 countries need emergency aid," the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in its "Crop Prospects and Food Situation" report released Tuesday ahead of next week's Rome World Summit on Food Security, Agence France-Presse reports.

The situation of the diabetes threat in developing countries is particularly worrying because of the rapid increase of morbidity of the disease due to lifestyle changes and environmental factors, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) expert says. "The problem is that diabetes prevalence is increasing very rapidly in developing countries ... and the rate of increase is much higher than what ...

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (Bernama) -- Nearly 200 million children in developing countries suffer from stunted growth and health problems due to poor nutrition in their early years, the latest the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)'s report on Wednesday.

GENEVA, Nov 12 (Bernama) -- The rapid increase of morbidity of the diabetes particularly in the developing countries, is a hidden threat due to lifestyle changes and environmental factors, a technical officer of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Diabetes Unit Dr Gojka Roglic on Thursday.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has signed an agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO) to donate 50 million doses of its adjuvanted pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine to WHO for distribution to developing countries most in need.

Six universities have agreed to an effort to "encourage companies to give poor countries better access to drugs and medical products stemming from discoveries made on their campuses," Bloomberg reports (Lauerman, 11/9). For the effort - Boston University, Brown, Harvard, Oregon Health & Science University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale - issued a statement (.

New Delhi, Nov. 11 : Union Minister for Commerce and Industries Minister Anand Sharma on Wednesday urged developed nations to provide greater market access to developing and less developed countries.

BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Poor countries Friday threatened to walk out of next month's Copenhagen climate change summit if developed countries do not pledge greater emissions cuts.

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ActionAid The G20 finance ministers' meeting this weekend is the last chance to deliver its commitment to help developing countries benefit from the tax evasion crackdown, international development charity ActionAid warns.

GENEVA - Developing countries have launched nearly half of the disputes at the World Trade Organisation in its 15-year history, the WTO said on Friday.

Source: Reuters * WTO members file 400 trade disputes in 15 years * U.S., EU most active, developing states launch nearly half * Number of disputes has fallen in recent years * More than half of disputes ...

Since the United Nations climate change talks began here Monday, developing countries and international organizations have expressed strong desire to continue with the Kyoto Protocol, while "some developed countries are plotting the death of it." At the opening session of the conference, Ibrahim Mirghani Ibrahim, the top negotiator from Sudan, which this year chairs the Group of 77 and China ...

China on Thursday said developed countries should take the lead in quantitative and massive emissions reduction, and provide support for developing countries in tackling climate change.

An international task force of cancer specialists and charities is meeting this week to develop strategies for curbing rising breast cancer rates in developing countries, the AP/Washington Post reports. The task force is led by Felicia Knaul -- a public health specialist and director of Harvard University's Global Equity Initiative -- and Lawrence Shulman of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

An Australian think tank is blaming environmental groups campaigning against palm oil for pushing people in developing countries further into poverty.

Efforts are underway to improve agriculture to prevent the kind of food shortages that were widespread in 2008. But a U.N. agency says much of the food now being produced in developing countries never makes it to market.