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developing country

noun

  1. a country having a standard of living or level of industrial production well below that possible with financial or technical aid; a country that is not yet highly industrialized.


developing country

noun

  1. a nonindustrialized poor country that is seeking to develop its resources by industrialization
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of developing country1

First recorded in 1950–55
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With limited manufacturing jobs, more people are stuck in low-paying farm work, an unusual trend for a developing country.

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China, whose regime has rarely been mistaken as a charitable institution, has poured billions of dollars of aid and investment into developing countries, seeking to extend its own power.

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The World Bank gives money and cheap loans to developing countries for poverty alleviation and development.

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Like many developing countries today, that era produced explosive innovation, economic progress and staggering degrees of inequality.

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Many were richer nations but some were developing countries, the investigators, from the American Cancer Society, say.

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