"We are trying to ensure that we start having a process whereby we can choose the most qualified person, regardless of nationality," said Amar Bhattacharya, the director of the Group of 24, an umbrella group of developing countries.
China tried to increase its sway throughout the negotiations, frequently aligning with Russia, Cuba and a group of developing countries known as the Group of 77, which actually consists of 134 nations, participants said.
Provider-specific comparative performance reporting is currently being debated and implemented in a subset of developed countries, but only in a small group of developing countries [ 25].
The SIDS received official recognition as a distinct group of developing countries at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in June 1992 (Grote 2010; Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen 2012).
11 It is a member of the United Nations Conference of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which is a group of developing countries that face specific social, economic and environmental challenges to their economic development.
Ms. Okonjo-Iweala and Mr. Ocampo have won the endorsement of a group of developing economies.
But the proposal ignored many concerns of the developing world, so the group of developing nations pushed a counterproposal.
Lumumba Di-Aping, the Sudanese chair of the G77 group of developing countries, is acquiring cult-level popularity.
This article incorrectly said that Brazil was among the group of developing countries "outraged" by an alternative deal.
The lead negotiator for the "G77 plus China" group of developing countries, Lumumba Di-Aping, was unsoothed.
It was the first free trade agreement between the United States and a group of developing countries.
