For Africa, mobile money represents the potential for an enormous leap forward in development.
Michael Porter, a Harvard professor who has become the region's economic guru, peddles the comforting notion that Central America may be able to by-pass the sweatshop stage of development and leap quickly from poverty to northern standards of productivity, social protection and environmental sensitivity.
He will be responsible for guiding all aspects of the company's growth, including business development, growing the executive team and leading the development of the Leap application discovery store.
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Once you make that leap, there are some very interesting changes in the development model.
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They talk about things they should not be talking about, so the competition can either leap frog them or incorporate their good ideas into their development, and avoid the mistakes made at Microsoft.
In all fields, the kind of direct manipulation offerd by the Leap will make for better, faster and more responsive product development loops.
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Further institutional capacity building of MoI Literacy Department in project planning, implementation, management, teacher training, materials development and monitoring and evaluation are envisaged to be carried out in LEAP 2 together with the MoI.
As I have written previously, the LEAP is a favorite of developers, more than 40, 000 of which have applied for development kits.
Foreign postings can help you leap ahead in government and nonprofit careers as well, says Nina Segal, an international career development consultant in New York and author of International Jobs: Where They Are and How to Get Them.
Welsh Assembly Economic Development and Transport Minister Andrew Davies, said on Monday the land deal marked "a huge leap forward" in the drive to develop an aerospace centre of excellence at the St Athan site.
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