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• n  state of inadequate development
  much poverty can be traced to the underdevelopment of industry
• n  (photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast

• From this indisputable fact, many have drawn a false conclusion: that the most efficient way out of underdevelopment is to follow Pinochet's example.
• Mbeki: The challenge facing everybody is to address poverty and underdevelopment.
• Some people look south of the Yucatn and see poverty and underdevelopment.

News & Articles

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• CAR's Shattered Health System Needs Urgent Repair
  The World Health Organization reports the Central African Republic’s shattered health system is in desperate need of repair. A senior WHO official who just visited the CAR reports medical care throughout much of this devastated country is practically non-existent. WHO blames years of underdevelopment and neglect from the international community for the dire situation in CAR, noting that even ...
  Feb. 14, 2014 - Voice of America

Quotes

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• Nicolas Sarkozy in Forbes
  I am convinced that the incoming administration will better the work done during the past 14-and-half years so that poverty, underdevelopment, unemployment, illiteracy, challenges of health, crime and corruption will cease to define the lives of... Thabo Mbeki http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Mbeki&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHi7lAXP4NkNmUK8EizMzw_FSLodQ San Francisco Chronicle http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff%3D/n/a/2008/09/19/international/i102907D74.DTL%26type%3Dhealth&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEgavhwdxuLxV4eNnQRKnc9BYGcDA Sep 19, 2008 104021 137616 underdevelopment If countries like Iran run out of fossil fuels, and if they don't have the right to the energy of the future, then we will create conditions of misery and underdevelopment, and therefore an explosion of terrorism," Sarkozy said.
• Gordon Brown in FOXNews
  Achieving the standards would help the international community "eradicate the great evils of our time: illiteracy, disease, poverty, environmental degradation, underdevelopment," Brown said.