In developed countries like ours, aging populations require increasing numbers of health personnel, particularly nurses.
"This practice is unfortunately expected from developed countries like the United Kingdom.
In developed countries like the United States, it is relatively easy to find an eye doctor and good glasses.
In contrast, developed countries, like Germany, Japan and the United States, had growth of only 1.3 percent in 2012.
And competition is coming from less developed countries like China, India and Malaysia, which are building biotechnology industries of their own.
We know where most of those Chinese exports are headed — to developed countries, like the United States, which accounts for about a quarter of them.
Until the final months of 2012, RIM continued to increase its subscriber base through sales of low-cost handsets to less developed countries like Nigeria and Indonesia.
This is compounded by the fact that in developed countries like the UK, the resident workforce has a preference for permanent employment.
So-called least developed countries like Bhutan and Bangladesh account for a tiny fraction of the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming.
In fact, we cannot really address climate change unless all the major emitting countries take on real, binding commitments—and that means not only developed countries like the United States, but also the major economies in the developing world.
While aggressive tax avoidance also costs developed countries, like the UK, the effects of this loss of revenue are starker in developing countries, where roughly $200bn a year is lost to corporate tax avoidance (pdf).
