Conrad Enill, the finance minister of Trinidad and Tobago and a spokesman for the group, said at a news conference that Mr. Rato "is someone with the kind of experience that the developing countries have been asking for, a practicing minister of finance, someone who is sympathetic to the challenges being faced by the developing world".
Such environmental justice issues are faced by many developing countries including Taiwan and the other three countries that were in the 1960s to 1990s termed the Four Little Dragons or Four Asian Tigers, and now also those countries grouped together as BRICS and ASEAN nations.
This raises a number of challenges which were faced by the 'Mainstreaming Genetics' pilots in planning and developing their new services.
The example of introducing prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programmes, which are among the simplest and most cost-effective of anti-HIV programmes available, into national health systems, is illustrative of the challenges faced by developing countries.
The scale and nature of the HIV epidemic is such that it is generally the most pressing health challenge faced by developing countries.
The report said: "The risks faced by developing countries … and the challenges of addressing them, may be different both in nature and scale to those faced by developed countries".
While many of the challenges in Indonesia are those faced by other developing countries growing a software development sector (BMZ 2011; Bamiro 2007), among which can be relatively low wages in some instances (Fendy 2016; Andre 2015),8 the Indonesian government is not unaware of such, having committed to better supporting software development.
Many developing countries, spurred by rapid economic growth, are faced with increasing public aspirations for better and affordable health care.
The potential for merging economic growth and environmental preservation is a key issue in Mexico, which is facing a balancing act shared by other developing countries, including China and India.
The burden of disease the developing world is facing cannot be addressed solely by reductionist approaches.
