Now, it appears that they want their leaders to focus on the basics: creating better-paying jobs, protecting the population, expanding trade, improving access to technology, developing infrastructure in rural areas, and improving relations with foreign countries and trade partners.

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This is particularly important in rural and developing areas, where mobile broadband has the most potential to benefit communities economically and socially.

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In 2008, this amounted to about 1.5 billion people, most of whom lived in remote or rural areas of developing countries in sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia.

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Helping a large Indian outsourcer go public, Janah hit on the notion that poor, educated people even in rural areas of developing countries could do data-entry work, just as people living in large Indian cities do.

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Such problems will become greater in future because the largest concentrations of poverty are no longer in the backward rural areas but in the anarchic megalopolises of developing countries, like Lagos and Mumbai.

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By contrast, one of the characteristics of the developing world is that people often have to leave energy-poor rural areas and travel to cities to find this economic opportunity.

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Unlike other developing countries, as of 2007 approximately 76% and 24% of Peruvians lived in urban and rural areas, respectively.

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In developing countries, on the other hand, going mobile is all about extending access and making Scitable available even in rural areas where feature phones are widely used.

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