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...past year, while India's Sensex index is up 35% since January. Even Nigeria's stock market, a relative newcomer to the radar screen of global investors, has jumped almost 60% in 2007. (The value of stocks listed in Nigeria is now almost double that of shares listed in Argentina, even though Argentina's economy is far more developed and twice the size of Nigeria's.) Worldwide, the total value of shares from 25 countries tracked on the MSCI Emerging Market Index is now at its highest level since the mid-1990s, a time considered by many to have been...
...grow is to make every household eat more and more every year." Or grab more market share, which is often difficult and expensive. By contrast, Danone's fresh-dairy-product line (yogurt and milk-based desserts) grew 9.2% last year, with growth as high as 20% in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, and 35% in Russia. Bottled water showed similarly high growth, at 14.8% in 2006. Numico grew nearly 12% last year...
...Britain playing the role of the Russian bear at the other end of the globe? Not exactly. Six other countries (Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand and Norway) have also laid claims to sectors of Antarctica; those of Chile and Argentina overlap with the British claim. (The United States recognizes none of them, but reserves the right to make its own claim down the line.) Each of those seven claims include coastline, and every coast presents an opportunity under Article 76 of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea: If you can prove that the continental shelf extends...
Responding to a question about further expansion of the bank, Yunus noted that 85 percent of the 120 million people with access to microloans are located in Asia. Yunus pointed to other nations where Grameen and its partners are expanding their reach, such as Argentina and Turkey...
...bomb” that made enemy soldiers mind-numbingly sexy to each other. (Sounds dangerous—and fabulous!) War-time orgies aside, the awards also mentioned a study on the effects of Viagra on jet-lagged hamsters. Diego A. Golombek, who conducted the study, flew in from Argentina to accept the Ig Nobel Aviation Prize. Why hamsters? Golombek explains, “We also tried it with worms...it didn’t work.” Ig Nobel Laureate and former Leverett House resident Francis M. Fesmire ’81 was also present. Fesmire won an award...