The methane gets converted to electricity and a family in an emerging nation can charge a phone, or other device, for free.
Despite the trappings of Westernization in major cities, a literacy rate of just 61 percent and high infant mortality rates betray the reality of India's status as an emerging nation.
While this is understandable considering that there is a wide disparity of income per capita between the two nations, as more consumers in China, or for that matter any emerging nation, see an increase in buying power as the country develops, the demand for smartphones will increase exponentially.
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As such, those who believe the IMF must look beyond Europe after the DSK scandal have a valid point, as they do when they argue that a managing director from an emerging nation will have a most salutary impact by underscoring the message the IMF sent in 2008 when it reformed its system of quota shares to better represent smaller countries.
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Having a national brand matters, because it makes products emerging from that nation more meaningful.
Her death commanded headlines from Mexico to Argentina as well as in that emerging Latin American nation, the United States.
And in a nation emerging from the shadow of apartheid, intruder must be read as "black person" and that is a defence with its own problems and is quite disturbing.
Meanwhile this group, led by Paul Krugman, a columnist with The New York Times, conveniently overlooks the travails of another emerging-market nation that's also a U.S. ally: Turkey, which has no currency board.
Indeed, even before any new influx of Arabs into Israel occurs, the Jewish State is increasingly facing a "time bomb" of its own -- an armed and dangerous Palestinian nation emerging in its midst and the prospect of a fifth column formed from Arab citizens of Israel.
Perversely, just as there are signs the nation is emerging from the economic maelstrom, it is hit by this brand of violence.
Presumably, they are being allowed to do so to further these countries' shared interest in preventing a democratic, peaceable and prosperous pro-Western nation from emerging from the ashes of Saddam Hussein's tyranny.
His plan, announced in July, could have provided a blueprint for other Myanmar businesses that want to raise money to fend off foreign companies seeking a foothold in the Southeast Asian nation, which is emerging from decades of military rule and isolation.
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DURBAN, South Africa (AP) China and Brazil signed an agreement Tuesday to do billions of dollars of trade in their local currencies, as the five-nation BRICS forum of emerging market powers work to lessen dependence on the U.S. dollar and euro.
It is the sixth most literate nation among the top 24 emerging markets in the world today.
Today's votes suggest that allegiance to what President Bush has called 'an abstract theory of deterrence' will no longer blind this nation's leaders to emerging threats unanticipated and unaffected by the codification of that theory -- the ABM Treaty.
For a nation that sees itself as an emerging global power, the event was a huge embarrassment.
The scope of this rapidly emerging national security and human rights challenge to the Nation can no longer be ignored by the U.S. government.
The recent carnage coincides with an emerging political crisis in the war-torn Middle Eastern nation, which faces an increasingly fractious legislature as Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political blocs increasingly seem at odds.
The U.S.-China Security Review Commission is to be commended for its vision in evaluating this 21st century issue area and for seeking to engage the financial community and other outside experts in the effort to define appropriate market-oriented remedies to address this emerging challenge to investors, corporate governance advocates and our nation's security interests.
Sectarian distrust and violence is emerging as the deadliest force to potentially destabilize the Southeast Asian nation as civilian rule has begun to replace decades of military dictatorship in recent years.
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China stands at the head of a very short list, and that nation's long-held reputation as Asia's emerging economic giant and new-found gloss as an island of stability both tempt investor attention.
Transparency International ranks the nation 95 in a list of 180 countries in its Corruption Perception Index, worse than several other emerging Asian rivals like China and Malaysia.
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