Tag: emerging nations
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Giving Globally: Education
Newsweek: Giving Globally – Education: It’s Not Just About the Boys. Get Girls Into School. Who wants more poor children around the world to go to school? Raise your hand. Yep, everyone's hand is up. Education is the ultimate mom-and-apple-pie (or rice-and-beans) issue. Everyone's for it. But our best efforts to get more impoverished kids…
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Waiting for the Call
US Banker: Waiting for the Call (Cellphone banking in emerging nations.) Cellphone banking is emerging as an important link that could bring the most basic financial services to the globe’s billions of unbanked cellphone users. Bringing the unbanked into the formal economy is a key initiative of various players—payments processors, financial-services firms, telecommunications firms—but it,…
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The problem with Made in China
The Economist: The problem with Made in China China is choking on its success at attracting the world's factories. That has handed its Asian neighbours a big opportunity. ……. Scott Brixen, an analyst at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, a Hong Kong-based investment bank, gives two big reasons why China has not found itself at the top…
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Maybe Developing Nations Are Not Emerging but Have Emerged
New York Times: Maybe Developing Nations Are Not Emerging but Have Emerged IN the old developed world, this is an era of solid but moderate economic growth. In the new world, the so-called emerging economies is where most of the growth now resides. The chart shows the most recent annual real rates of increase in…