When developed and developing countries were considered separately, there was a slight upward trend in percentage of ADC with increasing cervical screening coverage for both developed countries and developing countries, but the associations were weak (developed countries R = 0.06; developing countries R = 0.08).
The G-20 could lead the way out of this impasse by identifying a new basis for freer and fairer world trade, perhaps through sectoral agreements or ones that avoid constraining for the moment the policy choices of the weakest developing countries.
However, the traditional policy measures aimed at securing decent wages and working conditions, such as collective bargaining and minimum wages, are often weak in developing countries.
The slump has aggravated already weak conditions in developing countries like Chile and Brazil, which are major commodity exporters.
Developing countries have demanded that principles of common but differentiated responsibility become enshrined in any new climate deal; the TiSA would instead sidesteps developing country concerns raised at the WTO, and fails to include the (weak) flexibilities for developing countries included in the WTO's GATS.
Similarly, Alfaro et al. (2008) confirm that domestic and international market imperfection, low institutional quality and weak governance structure in developing countries increase the investor's high risk of return.
Within the existing treaty framework, wealthier countries can reserve the right not to share information with weak tax administrations in developing countries, citing concerns about confidentiality and data protection.
Human resource planning capacity, even at the national level, is weak, particularly so in developing countries.
For example, it is highly ironic that even as multinational tobacco companies rush to exploit huge markets and weak tobacco controls in developing countries, evidence-based international standards such as the FCTC are framed, by some, as an instrument of neo-colonialism that threatens national sovereignty [ 99].
In many developed and developing countries, organizations and institutional frameworks capable of the above tasks are either weak or absent.
