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US Economy	Federal Reserve	World Economy	Palm Oil
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Developing World Videos

World Bank Names Jim Yong Kim as President
April 16, 2012 | Financial News Network

Pfizer Broadens and Extends Commitment to Help Prevent Pneumococcal Disease in Infants and Young Children in the World’s Poorest Countries
December 16, 2011 | Business Wire

Gamu in charity street busking
December 07, 2011 | Press Association UK

Developing World Wikipedia Information

A developing country has a relatively low standard of living, an undeveloped industrial base, and a moderate to low Human Development Index (HDI) score. In developing countries, there is low per capita income, widespread poverty, and low capital formation. The term has tended to edge out earlier ones, including the Cold War-defined "Third World", which has come to have unintentional...

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Hunter-Gatherers, Forager-Horticulturalists Demonstrate Minimal Hypertension and Lower Risk of Heart Disease
May 21, 2012
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. May 21, 2012 - While age-related increases in blood pressure –– and the associated risk of atherosclerosis –– are commonplace in the United...

Clean Water for Everyone
May 21, 2012
Leaving bottles of water in the sun kills pathogens--but only if the water is transparent. Michigan Tech's Joshua Pearce has devised a simple way to clarify...

Oxfam: G8 food security alliance answers question hungry people have not asked
May 18, 2012
May 18, 2012 - International agency Oxfam warned that today's announcement of the "New Alliance to Increase Food and Nutrition Security" focuses too heavily on...

"Guns And Butter" Economy
May 11, 2012
Indeed! Made all the worse with the Mexican border trade, which thrives on the guns trade, courtesy of all those gun shows where Big Private Profits are made on...

Science academies issue ‘G-Science’ statements to call world leaders’ attention how science and technology can help solve global challenges
May 10, 2012
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2012 — National science academies from 15 countries issued joint statements today calling on world leaders who are about to meet at the...

Where International Climate Policy Has Failed, Grassroots Efforts Can Succeed
April 30, 2012
Smog in Beijing. Photo: Steven Zhang April 26, 2012 - The world can significantly slow the pace of climate change with practi...

Other local news reports

$ 25 million grant aims to boost food security in developing world
April 23, 2012 | UC Davis News
A UC Davis agricultural economist will direct a $25 million federal program aimed at creating financial systems that can boost agricultural productivity and food security in...

From around the web

< b> Food security: Obama to tout $ 3B pledge
May 18, 2012 | indystar.com
Leaders at the G-8 economic summit have sought to focus some of their efforts in recent years on the plight of the developing world. At the 2009 summit in L'Aquila, Italy,...

Assured Labor, The Mobile Job- Finding Network, Breaks Into Brazil
May 10, 2012 | TechCrunch
You can kind of think of it like a LinkedIn for the developing world. ...

Now Twitter Looks Nice Even on Your Crappy Feature Phone
May 07, 2012 | Read/WriteWeb
As mobile phone usage grows in the developing world, basic feature phones are often all that most people can afford, so they use them for multiple forms of communication and to...

Dual- Action Wind Turbine Generates Power and Water [ Monster Machines ]
April 17, 2012 | Gizmodo
Throughout the developing world, millions of people struggle with a shortage of clean water and steady electricity. This wind turbine could solve both problems in one shot by...

Lo- Fi eReader App Brings Digital Books To The Developing World
April 09, 2012 | PSFK Trend: PSFK
Over 1 billion non-smartphone users can have access to free e-books through Worldreader's new platform. ...

Moore's Law Does not Apply to Health Care Technology
April 20, 2012 | Read/WriteWeb
'' The problem is that with the plethora of mHealth apps (on the App Store, Google Play, and in the developing world), very few people are using them. Which begs the...

Developing World on twitter

	11 Facts About Water in the Developing World \| Do Something http://t.co/v4nCXiep Twitter: @AquaSure
	RT @AcumenSF: "There is so much we in the US can learn from the developing world" @benjewilliams @acumenfund Twitter: @bespokeafrique
	@GregJessop1 @BabsNation Many Christian nutters in developing world support all manner of murderous response. Is that Christianity? #auspol Twitter: @SandraEckersley
	"There is so much we in the US can learn from the developing world" @benjewilliams @acumenfund Twitter: @AcumenSF
	RT @garyhaugen: Crude Mortality Rates (deaths/10k/month) in many developing world prisons are comparable to rates in war & disaster zones. Twitter: @1StarWarsJesus
	RT @garyhaugen: Crude Mortality Rates (deaths/10k/month) in many developing world prisons are comparable to rates in war & disaster zones. Twitter: @sisterwendyfan