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John Fielding,
CEO
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Developing countries may actually be at an advantage in implementing this new technology as it does not have an extensive investment in existing infrastructures.
Developing countries now suffering from a global economic downturn are likely to experience a rebound in growth this year.
Developing countries should then begin focusing on the intermediate and advanced stages as their industries and labor force become more productive through the increased technical progress.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Discontented developing countries believe they have not seen many benefits from WTO membership and are resisting the launch of a new multilateral trade round.
These countries were among the first developing countries to espouse the cause of free trade and engage in extensive unilateral trade liberalisation.
More developing countries participated in the Uruguay Round than any previous round of multilateral trade negotiations.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Developing countries have also been concerned about how much they are likely to get under provisions in both the Protocol and the Climate Convention concerning technical and financial transfers to help them adapt to and combat climate change.
Developing countries generally have an exemption from TRIPS compliance until the year 2000 but this is not enough to protect them from listing as a Special 301 Priority Country.
The developing countries should include environmental improvement as one of the multiple goals in a development plan and define its priority and dimensions in the light of their own cultural and social values and their own stage of economic development.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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The developing countries are vitally concerned that these implications should be positive and beneficial rather than negative and harmful.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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In developing countries these technologies enable service providers to offer basic low cost scalable telecommunication services.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Several countries are suspected of developing biological weapons and we know for sure that Iraq and the former Soviet Union had programs to develop these weapons.
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