In the absence of any official estimate of the size of the stimulus, market-watchers looked for an unofficial figure to fill the gap.

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To close this gap, companies will have to figure out what really matters to customers in their traditional channels as well as digital channels.

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Most marketers and product strategists are still struggling to figure out how to bridge the mobile monetization gap and make the most of a complex and fragmented smartphone OS ecosystem.

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Three decades later, in Sri Lanka, he was trying to figure how to use technology to bridge the gap between his imagination and what could be shown convincingly on a movie screen.

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Where the inspirational figure is selected for us, and the gap between their life and ours is too great, the effect is not one of encouragement but of disillusionment - especially if their story is told in terms of personal qualities like bravery or persistence.

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That figure doesn't include income from investments, which would make the gap even larger.

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Even if this figure substantially overstates the problem, a decision by workers to narrow the gap by increasing their savings rate by, say, ten percentage points would have a huge impact on corporate profits, government tax revenues and GDP growth.

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