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Developing countries

Here are entered comprehensive works on those countries having relatively low per capita incomes.

This heading may be subdivided by those topical subdivisions used under names of regions, countries, etc., e.g. Developing countries -- Economic conditions, and may be used as a geographic subdivision under those topics authorized for local subdivision, e.g. Technology -- Developing countries.

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• Economic development
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• Developing countries -- Commerce
• Developing countries -- Commercial policy
• Developing countries -- Congresses
• Developing countries -- Economic conditions
• Developing countries -- Economic policy
• Developing countries -- Foreign economic relations
• Developing countries -- Foreign public opinion, Soviet
• Developing countries -- Foreign relations
• Developing countries -- History, Military
• Developing countries -- Military relations
• Developing countries -- Periodicals
• Developing countries -- Population density
• Developing countries -- Relations
• Developing countries -- Social conditions
• Developing countries -- Statistics
• Developing countries -- Strategic aspects
• AIDS (Disease) -- Developing countries
• Advertising -- Developing countries
• Agricultural assistance -- Developing countries
• Agricultural assistance, American -- Developing countries
• Agricultural assistance, European -- Developing countries
• Agricultural development projects -- Developing countries
• Agricultural innovations -- Developing countries
• Agricultural wastes -- Recycling -- Developing countries
• Agriculture -- Developing countries
• Agriculture and state -- Developing countries
• Antiretroviral agents -- Developing countries
• Architecture -- Developing countries
• Architecture, Domestic -- Developing countries
• Balance of payments -- Developing countries
• Biology, Economic -- Developing countries
• Bottle feeding -- Developing countries
• Business enterprises -- Developing countries
• Capital movements -- Developing countries
• Child labor -- Developing countries
• Child welfare -- Developing countries
• Cities and towns -- Developing countries
• City planning -- Developing countries
• Communication -- Developing countries
• Communism -- Developing countries
• Community health services -- Developing countries
• Computer industry -- Developing countries
• Conflict management -- Developing countries
• Conservation of natural resources -- Developing countries
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research -- Developing countries
• Contraception -- Health aspects -- Developing countries
• Contraception -- Social aspects -- Developing countries
• Copyright -- Electronic information resources -- Developing countries
• Cultural policy -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
• Currency question -- Developing countries
• Debt relief -- Developing countries
• Debts, External -- Developing countries
• Debts, Public -- Developing countries
• Democracy -- Developing countries
• Devaluation of currency -- Developing countries
• Developed countries -- Foreign economic relations -- Developing countries
• Diet -- Developing countries
• Digital divide -- Developing countries
• Disaster relief -- Developing countries
• Double taxation -- Developing countries
• Drug accessibility -- Developing countries
• Drugs -- Labeling -- Developing countries
• Economic assistance -- Developing countries
• Economic assistance, American -- Developing countries
• Economic assistance, Canadian -- Developing countries
• Economic assistance, Chinese -- Developing countries
• Economic assistance, Domestic -- Developing countries
• Economic assistance, Soviet -- Developing countries
• Economic development -- Developing countries
• Economic development projects -- Developing countries
• Economic stabilization -- Developing countries
• Education -- Developing countries
• Education, Higher -- Developing countries
• Energy consumption -- Developing countries
• Energy development -- Developing countries
• Energy industries -- Environmental aspects -- Developing countries
• Energy policy -- Developing countries
• Environmental economics -- Developing countries
• Environmental protection -- Developing countries
• Epidemiology -- Developing countries
• Farms, Small -- Developing countries
• Feminism -- Developing countries
• Fertility, Human -- Developing countries
• Finance -- Developing countries
• Finance, Public -- Developing countries
• Financial crises -- Developing countries
• Fishery management -- Developing countries
• Food consumption -- Developing countries
• Food relief -- Developing countries
• Food supply -- Developing countries
• Foreign exchange -- Developing countries
• Foreign exchange rates -- Developing countries
• Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
• Gynecology -- Social aspects -- Developing countries
• Health care rationing -- Developing countries
• Health planning -- Developing countries
• Health services accessibility -- Developing countries
• Households -- Developing countries
• Housing -- Developing countries
• Housing policy -- Developing countries
• Human reproduction -- Social aspects -- Developing countries
• Human rights -- Developing countries
• Hunger -- Developing countries
• Industrial policy -- Developing countries
• Industries -- Developing countries
• Infant formulas -- Marketing -- Developing countries
• Infants -- Developing countries
• Information resources management -- Developing countries
• Information technology -- Developing countries
• Intellectual property -- Developing countries
• Intellectual property infringement -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
• International Monetary Fund -- Developing countries
• International business enterprises -- Developing countries
• Investments -- Developing countries
• Investments, Foreign -- Developing countries
• Investments, Japanese -- Developing countries
• Japan -- Commerce -- Developing countries
• Leadership -- Developing countries
• Legal assistants -- Developing countries
• Legal services -- Developing countries
• Literacy -- Developing countries
• Malnutrition in children -- Developing countries
• Manpower policy -- Developing countries
• Mass media -- Developing countries
• Medical care -- Developing countries
• Medical economics -- Developing countries
• Medical informatics -- Developing countries
• Medical innovations -- Developing countries
• Medical policy -- Developing countries
• Medical technology -- Developing countries
• Medicine, Preventive -- Developing countries
• Mental illness -- Developing countries
• Migration, Internal -- Developing countries
• Mobile communication systems -- Developing countries
• Monetary policy -- Developing countries
• Money -- Developing countries
• Natural disasters -- Developing countries
• Natural resources -- Developing countries
• Nuclear weapons -- Developing countries
• Nutrition -- Developing countries
• Nutrition disorders in infants -- Developing countries
• Nutrition policy -- Developing countries
• Open access publishing -- Developing countries
• Organic wastes -- Recycling -- Developing countries
• Patent medicines -- Law and legislation -- Developing countries
• Peace-building -- Developing countries
• Peacekeeping forces -- Developing countries
• Pharmaceutical industry -- Developing countries
• Photocopying -- Developing countries
• Piracy (Copyright) -- Developing countries
• Poor -- Developing countries
• Postwar reconstruction -- Developing countries
• Poverty -- Developing countries
• Power resources -- Developing countries
• Primary health care -- Developing countries
• Product counterfeiting -- Developing countries
• Psychiatry -- Developing countries
• Public health -- Developing countries
• Reading -- Developing countries
• Renewable energy sources -- Developing countries
• Renewable natural resources -- Government policy -- Developing countries
• Representative government and representation -- Developing countries
• Research -- Developing countries
• Reserves (Accounting) -- Developing countries
• Revolutions -- Developing countries
• Rural development projects -- Developing countries
• Rural poor -- Developing countries
• Rural-urban migration -- Developing countries
• Sanitation -- Developing countries
• Scholarly electronic publishing -- Developing countries
• Scholarly publishing -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
• Science -- Developing countries
• Science and state -- Developing countries
• Sewage sludge -- Developing countries
• Sex discrimination against women -- Developing countries
• Sex discrimination in justice administration -- Developing countries
• Sexual health -- Developing countries
• Social networks -- Developing countries
• Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Developing countries
• Soviet Union -- Military relations -- Developing countries
• Soviet Union -- Relations -- Developing countries
• Sustainable development -- Developing countries
• Taxation -- Developing countries
• Technical assistance -- Developing countries
• Technical assistance, American -- Developing countries
• Technical assistance, Chinese -- Developing countries
• Technical assistance, Soviet -- Developing countries
• Technological innovations -- Developing countries
• Technology -- Developing countries
• Technology transfer -- Developing countries
• Tropical crops -- Developing countries
• United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Developing countries
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Developing countries
• University cooperation -- Developing countries
• Urban policy -- Developing countries
• Urban poor -- Developing countries
• Urban renewal -- Developing countries
• Vernacular architecture -- Developing countries
• Water-supply -- Developing countries
• Women -- Developing countries
• Women's rights -- Developing countries

• Emerging nations
• Fourth World
• Global South
• LDC's
• Least developed countries
• Less developed countries
• Newly industrialized countries
• Newly industrializing countries
• NICs (Newly industrialized countries)
• Third World
• Underdeveloped areas
• Underdeveloped countries
• Developing country

• The United States and New Crossroads in World Economy (reprinted from the Dept. of State Bulletin; Dept. of State publication 7143 (Economic cooperation series #60); 1961), by Edwin M. Martin (multiple formats at Google)
• Capitalism and American Leadership (New York: Philosophical Library, c1962), by Oliver C. Cox (page images at HathiTrust)

• Free and Fair: Making the Progressive Case for Removing Trade Barriers (London: Foreign Policy Centre, 2004), ed. by Phoebe Griffith and Jack Thurston (PDF with commentary at fpc.org.uk)

• The Trade Policies of Developing Countries: Recent Reforms and New Challenges (Washington: AEI Press, 2000), by Sarath Rajapatirana (PDF at AEI)

• Greenprint: A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change (Washington: Center for Global Development, c2013), by Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian (PDF at cgdev.org)
• The Poorest and Hungry: Assessments, Analyses, And Actions (an IFPRI 2020 book; Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute, c2009), ed. by Joachim Von Braun, Ruth Vargas Hill, and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (at ifpri.org)
• HIPC Debt Relief: Myths and Reality (2004), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (PDF files with commentary at fondad.org)
• A History of Wealth and Poverty: Why a Few Nations are Rich and Many Poor (electronic edition; originally published 1994), by John P. Powelson (HTML at quaker.org)
• Development Cooperation in a Fractured Global Order: An Arduous Transition, by Francisco R. Sagasti and Gonzalo Alcade (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Diversity in Development: Reconsidering the Washington Consensus (2004), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (PDF files with commentary at fondad.org)
• Free and Fair: Making the Progressive Case for Removing Trade Barriers (London: Foreign Policy Centre, 2004), ed. by Phoebe Griffith and Jack Thurston (PDF with commentary at fpc.org.uk)
• The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development (in multiple languages; c2008), by Commission on Growth and Development (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Leadership and Growth (Washington: Commission on Growth and Development; World Bank, c2010), ed. by David W. Brady and Michael Spence (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Paths Out Of Poverty: The Role Of Private Enterprise in Developing Countries (Washnigton: International Finance Corporation, 2000), by International Finance Corporation (PDF at World Bank)
• The Poorest and Hungry: Assessments, Analyses, And Actions (an IFPRI 2020 book; Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute, c2009), ed. by Joachim Von Braun, Ruth Vargas Hill, and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (at ifpri.org)
• Transforming Natural Resources for Human Development: a Resource Systems Framework for Development Policy, by Kenneth Ruddle and Dennis A. Rondinelli (HTML at UNU Press)

• Aid to Developing Countries: The Technology/Ecology Fit (1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Odious Debts: Loose Lending, Corruption, and the Third World's Environmental Legacy (1991), by Patricia Adams (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• Soviet Political Perspectives on Power Projection (RAND note N-2430-A, 1987), by Francis Fukuyama, Scott Bruckner, and Sally W. Stoecker (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Wars of the Third Kind: Conflict in Underdeveloped Countries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Edward E. Rice (HTML at UC Press)

• Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (partial serial archives)

• The New Landscape: Urbanisation in the Third World (1989), by Charles Correa (PDF files at Wayback Machine (only individual chapter files are downloadable))

• Atlas of Global Development (third edition, c2011), by World Bank (Javascript-dependent page images at issuu.com)

• Land-Based Air Power in Third World Crises (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1986), by David R. Mets
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Scaling Up Treatment for the Global AIDS Pandemic (2004), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• New Opportunities for U.S. Universities in Development Assistance: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Environment (OTA-BP-F-71; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development (Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute, c2009), ed. by David J. Spielman and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (PDF with commentary at ifpri.org)

• Healing Wounds: How the International Agricultural Research Centers of the CGIAR Help Rebuild Agriculture in Countries Affected by Conflict and Natural Disasters (c2005), by Surendra Varma and Mark Winslow
  • illustrated HTML at cgiar.org
  • PDF at cgiar.org
• Amaranth to Zai Holes: Ideas for Growing Food Under Difficult Conditions, by Laura S. Meitzner and Martin L. Price (HTML at archive.org)

• Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development (Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute, c2009), ed. by David J. Spielman and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (PDF with commentary at ifpri.org)

• Scaling Up Treatment for the Global AIDS Pandemic (2004), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Mimar Houses, ed. by Brian Brace Taylor (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down in web page inset for chapter and download links))

• The Baby Killer: A War on Want Investigation Into the Promotion and Sale of Powdered Baby Milks in the Third World (London: War on Want, 1974), by Mike Muller (PDF with commentary at waronwant.org)

• Paths Out Of Poverty: The Role Of Private Enterprise in Developing Countries (Washnigton: International Finance Corporation, 2000), by International Finance Corporation (PDF at World Bank)

• By the Sweat and Toil of Children: A Report to Congress (initial child labor report, 1994), by United States Department of Labor (HTML and PDF at dol.gov)

• Marketing and Promotion of Infant Formula in Developing Countries: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, Second Session, January 30 and February 11, 1980 (Washington: GPO, 1980), by United State House Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marketing and Promotion of Infant Formula in the Developing Nations, 1978: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session (Washington: GPO, 1978), by United State Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New Landscape: Urbanisation in the Third World (1989), by Charles Correa (PDF files at Wayback Machine (only individual chapter files are downloadable))

• The New Marxist-Leninist states in the Third World (RAND paper P-7020, 1984), by Francis Fukuyama (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Net Loss: Government, Technology and the Political Economy of Community in the Age of the Internet (prepublication version, 1998), by Nathan Newman (HTML at nathannewman.org)

• The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016), by Naazneen Barma (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Healing Wounds: How the International Agricultural Research Centers of the CGIAR Help Rebuild Agriculture in Countries Affected by Conflict and Natural Disasters (c2005), by Surendra Varma and Mark Winslow
  • illustrated HTML at cgiar.org
  • PDF at cgiar.org

• Contraception and Reproduction: Health Consequences for Women and Children in the Developing World (1989), by National Research Council Committee on Population (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Contraception and Reproduction: Health Consequences for Women and Children in the Developing World (1989), by National Research Council Committee on Population (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Education (Cambridge, MA and London; et al: MIT Press, 2018), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Developing Cultural Industries: Learning from the Palimpsest of Practice (Amsterdam: European Cultural Foundation, 2015), by Christiaan De Beukelaer (PDF at European Cultural Foundation)

• HIPC Debt Relief: Myths and Reality (2004), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (PDF files with commentary at fondad.org)
• Helping the Poor? The IMF and Low-Income Countries (2005), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (PDF files with commentary at fondad.org)

• Odious Debts: Loose Lending, Corruption, and the Third World's Environmental Legacy (1991), by Patricia Adams (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• HIPC Debt Relief: Myths and Reality (2004), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (PDF files with commentary at fondad.org)

• Imposing Standards: The North-South Dimension to Global Tax Politics (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Martin Hearson
  • HTML at Project MUSE
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
• Why? The Deeper History Behind the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on America (third edition; c2005), by J. W. Smith (PDF at ied.info)

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