Brazil is not a serious country.
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.
Without doubt, Malaysia is the great economic star of the Muslim world.
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.
Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.
His position makes him one of the richest men in the world coming from one of the poorest countries of the world.
North Korea Leader Kim Jong Un
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.
It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.
The Chinese want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to have 'developing nation' status and are out there as one of the biggest borrowers on the planet from the World Bank while simultaneously trying to play the part of a grown up on the world stage.
Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.
Haiti is in desperate poverty.
Those memories of living in a developing nation are part of who I am today and give me a profound understanding of the challenges of economic development - an understanding which will make my tenure as Peace Corps director, I hope, a very special one.
I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.
I come from one of the poorest countries in the world, and Cameroon is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.
There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.
We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.
We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.
