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Developing Nations Represent Market Opportunity Theme of TIA Session at SUPERCOMM
TIA, the national U.S. trade association for telecommunications, hosted a Market Development Forum, The Other 4 Billion: Telecom in Emerging Nations, at SUPERCOMM? 2005. The session provided insight on the communications infrastructure needs of developing nations, programs designed to help expand access to technology, growth patterns and the impact of regulation on market development. Panelists discussed the opportunities and challenges for low-...
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- PulseOnline
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Everybody loves a good rural mart
As urban market is getting saturated, rural market is rapidly occupying the centre table of discussion for both the corporate world as well the top business management schools ( B-School) of the country. The rural market has been growing at 12-13 per cent as compared to 7-8 per cent growth of urban counterpart, over the last decade. Moreover, the urban market is getting saturated and corporate are now looking sincerely towards the rural market in a much serious way,said P...
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- Business Standard
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Drumstick farmer puts Indian village on global map
An enterprising farmer from a village in Maharashtra’s Nashik district has begun exporting drumsticks to far off places in the world via online. Balasaheb Marale is the drumstick king of Maharashtra! A poor and unknown farmer who supplied to the local markets for years, now he has gone online and international. Marale gets his orders at Drumstick India and supplies to NRIs the world over - from his village Si...
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- OneWorld South Asia
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The Sweet Herb of the Guaran?, by Alejandro Sciscioli
As the business gathers force, a side benefit for social development grows in parallel, due to the high profits for the producers and the great number of workers needed to tend to the crop. Fischer explained that the Chamber suggests planting 50,000 to 60,000 plants in every half-hectare. That size of a plot provides permanent work for four people in controlling weeds and pests, which must be done by hand because agrochemicals and insecticides are not used. The small farm...
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- IPS
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Sachet Marketing
Thinking small in large volumes--the essence of sachet marketing--yet never losing brand focus, could open up entirely new markets for many of the worlds B2C and B2B manufacturers and service providers. If your customers are willing but cash strapped, think micro loans, think mini-sizes, think light versions, think leasing, think bundling, think reselling, think making money and paying respect to your future affluent customers. ...
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- Trendwatching.com
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Successes in rural inventions, by Santosh Sinha
Mansukhbhai Jagani is not your typical inventor. He dropped out of school at the age of 10 due to financial hardship. After working at the family farm in India’s western state of Gujarat, he moved to Surat to work in the diamond-cutting industry there. At 18, Mr Jagani returned to his village without much hope for the future. But in the 22 years since, he has chalked up three inventions - a motorcycle-driven field cultivator, a seed-cum-fertiliser...
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- BBC News
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Business urged to rethink profit drive, by Karima Brown, Jacob Dlamini and Hopewell Radebe
Government has extended its economic rethink to corporate SA, calling on business to look beyond its annual financial statements and focus on the long-term economic and political interests of the country. Deputy Finance Minister Jabu Moleketi, who is driving the rethink, said that companies’ current profit margins could not be sustained in the long run. He called for a debate on what sort of profit margins, what sort of returns are justifiable, and wh...
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- Sunday Times
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G.E. Becomes a General Store for Developing Countries, by Claudia H. Deutsch
For the first time, G.E. has rolled aircraft engines, rail products, water, energy, oil and gas equipment, and even some finance units, into one all-encompassing collection of businesses, aimed at helping developing countries come of age. One of the biggest reasons behind creating the infrastructure unit is to offer one-stop shopping to developing countries, Mr. Calhoun said. In fact, revving up sales in emerging countries has become the overarching goal behin...
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- The New York Times
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