"If we find that rural communities in developing or developed countries can access this without significant expense, then it will make a difference, " he says.
"The degree of confidence across the board is really down, regardless of whether you're in a developing market or a developed market, " he said.
If you are among the unemployed or underemployed you may not take much solace from this, but our economy is still a formidable source of employment as compared to the economies of most developed or developing countries.
In fact, there are cogent arguments to be made that the level of U.S. corporate taxes is now uncompetitive across all of our industries, relative to most other developed or developing countries, and that our lack of a rational immigration policy is hastening the departure of talent from the U.S. to the benefit of our economic competitors.
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"We believe the percentage of accounts that are duplicate or false is meaningfully lower in developed markets such as the United States or Australia and higher in developing markets such as Indonesia and Turkey, " the company said in the filing.
Imagine if rather than developing the next CDO or Credit Default Swap instrument, they developed a model that optimized health rather than devastated the economy with financial instruments few can understand.
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The data is based on research into current and projected oil production levels, extraction costs, exploration projects that are underway or in the pipeline and growth projections for developed and developing nations.
The grantees pledge to make their technologies available at no or little charge to developing nations, though they retain marketing rights in developed markets.
But investors with long-term horizons of three years or more who know that world growth is coming from the developing, not developed markets, then 2011 valuations are looking a lot like 2008.
Almost all Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean islands have in recent years developed one or more medium-term strategic plans for the education sector.
Some 33% of children in developing countries suffer from moderate or severe growth problems, rising to more than 50% in the lesser-developed countries.
Many of these experiences, however, are related, directly or indirectly, to the struggle to realize Education for All in other countries, developed and developing alike.
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