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As smart phones get cheaper and service becomes more widespread, mobile banking is expected to spread beyond its current American and European centre and meet the growing demands of the unbanked population in developing countries. ACE-listed eBworx aims to take advantage of the current trends. The evolution of smart phones with faster processors and intuitive user interface has, without a doubt, fueled the demand for mobile banking.
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Donald Kaplan, Director of Program Communications of amfAR, +1-212-806-1602, donald.kaplan@amfar.org
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ST. LOUIS - The numbers have become a familiar refrain: 9 billion people by 2050. For aid organizations and policy-makers, the figures raise an alarming question: How to feed them all? For agricultural corporations including Monsanto, they offer a huge market opportunity. Creve Coeur, Mo.-based Monsanto, the world's largest agricultural biotech company, has for years made clear that it could benefit from a rising global population and rising food demand, particularly in developing countries. And recent spikes in food prices worldwide, combined with a protracted economic downturn, have sparked debate over whether biotechnology represents the answer to feeding the world.
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...) The effects are especially acute in developing countries as, for example, indoor air pollution ca... of nearly two thirds of the world's population (132) and hence these concerns should not be ignor...
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The debate over the ongoing explosion of population in the developing countries of the world has become more muted since the 1960s, but the author claims that population pressure is a major cause of the contemporary problems that plague so much of the Third World. He also argues that the widely disparate birthrates around the world threaten the peace of the world, and advocates the diversion of greater resources toward the provision of contraceptives to those countries that are too poor to provide them to their own people. Many impoverished Third World countries are currently doubling their population every twenty to twenty five years, and funds spent on ameliorating the demographic problem would not only reduce much of the misery afflicting these countries but would result in far great...
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Californians for Population Stabilization is joining with more than 500 organizations to sponsor World Population Awareness Week from Oct. 17-23. The event is an effort to expand understanding of rapid population growth and its deleterious effects. This year's focus is on the world's gender inequities. Population growth is robbing our children and grandchildren," according to Diana Hull, president of Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS). "We're leaving them more crowding and fewer resources.
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Almost 40% of the global population face a serious water shortage, with most of these people in the developing countries. Nearly 65% of the world's population are projected to experience conditions of water scarcity by 2050. Water scarcity is already a serious issue in most Middle Eastern and North African nations. Eight Middle Eastern nations have already reached what hydrologists call conditions of absolute water scarcity, and many others are approaching this mark. Water scarcity and its ramifications in the Arab world are discussed.
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The demographic disaster facing the planet today is not a population explosion but rather depopulation. As I wrote last week, for world population to replace itself, the birthrate per woman (Total Fertility Rate or TFR) needs to be at least 2.1. While the current world TFR is just above 2.5, it has declined from 2.8 in just the past six years. Virtually all developed countries, with the notable exception of the United States, and most developing countries are experiencing sharp declines in birthrate. Yet we still do face a 'population bomb' of a different sort," notes New American Foundation senior fellow, Phillip Longman in "The Empty Cradle." "But what makes today's economic growth unsustainable is not that it is about to exhaust the Earth's bounty, but that it is consuming more huma...
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This article considers the relationship of national political systems, freedom and individual rights, with the spatial distribution of population. It is hypothesized that nations lacking sufficient levels of political freedoms and rights will have high percentages of population clustered in their principal urban agglomerations, where the majority of national investments are concentrated; as it is in these cities where quality-of-life access opportunities will be most abundant. This study employs multivariate OLS regression analysis to measure correlations between political systems, political rights and civil liberties with compiled population data from 89 countries and territories. Findings show the hypothesis to have merit and offer contribution to international development planning di...
