World Bank will try to help India double its GDP growth rate from 4.8% to 9.6% and try to help Vietnam find steps to become an industrialized country in a single generation

1. The World Bank Group will bring increased financial and knowledge resources to help India return to the path of sustained high growth needed to bring prosperity to millions, especially the poor living in the lower income states. The World Bank Group will be ready to provide financial support worth $15-18 billion over the next …

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In Praise of Large Payloads for Space by Joseph Friedlander Part 2

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Hi, everybody this is Joseph Friedlander, continuing a guest article series on Nextbigfuture. In Praise of Large Payloads for Space by Joseph Friedlander Part 1 is here In this series I hope to discuss first some of the largest systems proposed to reach orbit with big payloads, …

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Integrated circuits Have been made with particles called Excitons

The illustration shows the layerstructure of the coupled quantum well(CQW)device used in the paper. Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called “excitons” that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely fast computer based on excitons closer to reality. Excitonic switches operating …

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Using Technology to Enable the Good Enough Revolution and Paths to Abundance

Wired describes the “Good Enough Revolution” Wired makes the following points about the “Good Enough Revolution”. Eventually all markets reach a point where products more gain more “value” by having core features and making those features extremely easy to use, convenient and cheap instead of adding more features. * In 2001, 181 million disposable cameras …

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