In emerging markets like Africa, there is often no real infrastructure for electronic payments.
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Religious sects, including Pentecostals and indigenous faiths, are proliferating in places like Africa and Latin America.
This raises money to provide school lunches to the poor in places like Africa.
For example, why do poor humans in places like Africa and Latin America cut down forests?
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More smart phones in places like Africa will appear and more information will be passed on that way.
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Thieves in the U.K. adapted to the blacklist, exporting more stolen phones to places like Africa and India, notes Mr. Wraith.
Chinese foreign direct investment has long been characterized as focusing on securing raw materials in emerging markets like Africa and Latin America.
However, to be successful in emerging countries like Africa, Wal-Mart needs to address the problems created by fledgling transport links and bureaucratic issues.
Bottom-of-the-pyramid markets would be the best fit: places like Africa, Southeast Asia and maybe eastern Europe and Latin America, wherever income levels mirror India's.
U.N. projections to 2025 suggest that the future list of megacities will be dominated by such lower-income cities, with growth primarily in places like Africa and central Asia.
Secondly, the relatively small cost will likely lower the barrier to entry for advanced microscopy and make field diagnosis an easier and more viable option in places like Africa.
Others also worry that the foundation concentrates too much on glamorous science and long-term technology bets, and not enough on putting boots on the ground in places like Africa.
It's just like Africa and I really love Italy.
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That should be great for campers, but where the K-Light really "shines" (so to speak) is in places like Africa, where villagers without electricity often use makeshift kerosene lanterns for light at night.
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We know that in continents like Africa, where women are responsible for 60-80% of food production, unpredictable growing seasons and increased incidence of droughts and floods place women, their families and their livelihoods at risk.
According to Kotnik, containers have been used for decades as makeshift residences and market shops in places like Africa, but it's only in the last 10 years that architects have "added value" by creating high concept designs out of them.
Obviously, the New Zealander who has staked his net worth on the future of the emerging economies is talking his book, but given the burgeoning debt in Greece, the United Kingdom and other European countries, Jennings may have a point when he says that as capital becomes more mobile it will look for the less obvious investment opportunities like Africa.
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Like South Africa's rulers next door, Botswana's have yet to face a serious political rival.
Advancements that most western countries have as a matter of course are not necessarily the norm in places like South Africa.
It seemed like North Africa and the Middle East were going to be the central theme last week in the briefing.
D. economist who gets his thrills bodysurfing in places like East Africa.
The simple fact is, without access to clean and cheap energy sources, developing nations like South Africa will continue to turn to coal.
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Samsung also is backing a project to turn old shipping containers into solar-powered, Web-enabled classrooms in places like South Africa and Sudan.
In a country like South Africa, hit by massive unemployment and sluggish economic growth, a thriving film industry could hold a tremendous economic opportunity.
Shadow international development secretary Ivan Lewis said it was important to maintain financial help to "middle income" countries like South Africa, which he described as "strategically" very important.
The effects have been felt in several other sports, with European Union law protecting any worker from the EU and from countries, like South Africa, with associate agreements.
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Aspiring innovators in developing countries like South Africa begin their journey by figuring out how to gain access to a computer and the internet, and learning how to use them.
"Playing against a quality side like South Africa in a one-day series you're obviously an underdog - but the way the guys have come out and played and practised has been absolutely exceptional, " said Pietersen.
But the vine's very hardiness and adaptability explain why it has spread across areas like North Africa, California's Central Valley and parts of Australia that have not always been, shall we say, dedicated heart and soul to wine quality.
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