"There are always nit-pickers, " says Owen W. Linzmayer, publisher in San Francisco of BanknoteNews.com and editor of the Banknote Book, a catalog for collectors of world notes.
In the end, though, remittances might be just one feature in a broad array of mobile-based financial services that are particularly suited for the developing world, notes Mark Pickens, a microfinance analyst at the Washington, D.
As David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World, notes, companies can use the site for advertising and marketing "based on the extremely exact demographic data volunteered by the individual".
The postwar world, he notes, has given us a whole field of sincerity studies.
Mara Goldstein, pharmaceuticals analyst at CIBC World Markets, notes that although the quarter was strong, it was helped by easy comparisons to an unimpressive quarter a year ago.
The World Bank also notes that, on average, emerging-market companies that tapped international markets were ten times larger in assets than their domestic rivals, giving them great strength at home.
In India, for example, enforcing a simple commercial contract takes 56 procedures and nearly four years, notes the World Bank, while in Venezuela, workers who earn less than 1.5 times the minimum wage can't be fired.
The plugin supports German, Spanish, and French, but Stremor notes that the world wide web is still more like a wild wild west.
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The report notes that the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) and the Canadian Science Writers' Association have both complained about the lack of "timely access" to government scientists.
That Asia (from India to Japan) should now be jostling to account for a third of world output is, he notes, neither miraculous (three-fifths of mankind lives there), nor even new.
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Another source of data, the World Federation of Exchanges, notes the number of publicly listed companies on national exchanges has fallen from 8, 823 in 1997, at the height of the dot-com boom, to fewer than 5, 000 at the end of 2011.
Gibson also notes that the World Cancer Research Fund review was based on just six studies (the other reviews ranged from 12 to over 80 studies) and that the original finding was much weaker than the one that appeared in the final document, raising questions as to why the editors rejected the conclusions of their researchers.
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Colleagues and business contacts I have bumped into are really looking at the World Economic Forum meeting as a chance to compare notes and check in on how we are all viewing the world in these extraordinary days.
Manpower, a recruitment consultant that tracks employers' intentions across the world's big economies, notes that the rise in Germany's indicator has been stronger than movements anywhere else.
He gave a virtuoso performance, rhyming off dozens of statistics in a clear, point-by-point analysis of the positives and negatives facing the world economy without once referring to notes or using PowerPoint slides.
The noisiest paper, without doubt, was the News of the World, which resounded with three continuous notes.
Bercovici notes that News of the World is News Corp.
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Simple but genuine thank-yous or small, handwritten notes of appreciation can mean the world to people.
Japan's government is the latest to join the world-wide rush to print money, he notes.
The term "assault rifle" was first used by Germany during World War II, The New York Times notes.
They have used their membership of various United Nations bodies to compare notes with indigenous groups from around the world.
The result is chilling at times, with Arborea using the empty spaces and silence as much as notes to create a remote and eerie world.
In her motion Ms McKelvie notes contributions that migrants from around the world make to Scotland, both economically and culturally, and continues to support people seeking sanctuary and solace in Scotland.
The report notes that half the women in the Arab world are illiterate, compared to one-third of men.
"Fifty percent of the gross domestic product in the developed world comes from small and medium-sized businesses, but in the developing world it's just 25%, " Shah notes.
Injecting sulphate particles into the stratosphere, for instance, would cool the Earth by reflecting more sunlight into space. (Nature has already shown that this concept can work, since volcanic eruptions that send sulphur-rich plumes into the stratosphere can temporarily alter the world's climate.) However, Dr Lenton notes that the method becomes less effective as the atmosphere becomes more saturated with particles.
One such technology is Third Voice, a browser add-on that lets anyone stick virtual Post-it Notes on any Web page, for the whole world to see.
In World War I and World War II, it strongarmed the Fed to print Federal Reserve Notes.
There have been almost 40 new communicable diseases identified in the last 30 years, he notes, and more will likely arise as a growing world population brings people in closer contact with each other and disease-bearing animals.
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