But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.
Each human life hypothetically saved by implementing these [radiation] regulations costs about $2. 5 billion. Such costs are absurd and immoral, especially when compared to the costs of saving lives by immunization against measles, diphtheria and pertussis, which in developing countries range between $50 and $99 per one human life saved.
The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.
Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.
The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.
My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.
I live in a developing country.
In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7. 7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty.
I am sympathetic to developing countries' concerns: because of our emissions it's their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it's their fields that turn to desert.
