11.   OPIC has a history of backing ventures by U.S. cellular communications companies in developing nations, including a Millicom International Cellular SA project in Costa Rica.

12.   Similarly, there is a fear that investors, pulling back from risk around the world, will make it far harder for developing nations to borrow.

13.   Some would claim that the rising level of prosperity among the more developing nations is misleading because their poorer citizens are being left behind.

14.   Strong demand for U.S. soybeans reflects efforts by developing nations to improve the quality of their food, analysts said.

15.   Stocks were down for the airlines but up for Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, and the cancerous cigarettes they dump on developing nations.

16.   Summers suggested that the IMF should limit its long-term lending programs and discourage repeat borrowing by developing nations, the better to preserve its capital to fight financial crises.

17.   The bigger fear, he says, is what will happen overseas, in developing nations with less sophisticated computer systems and without the resources to update them.

18.   The EU has not called on developing nations to make any cuts.

19.   The high inflation rates makes Turkish nominal interest rates higher than those of developed nations.

20.   The proposal became a test of the power of developing nations to resist pressure from rich countries and some private lobbying groups when allocating World Bank money.