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...AIDS, but experts say we're still far from making the real changes in cultural attitudes and practices that can impact the epidemic. Foremost among such cultural roadblocks is the role of women, who, in many developing societies, are economically dependent on their spouses and don't often demand that they practice safe sex. Dr. Geeta Gupta, president of the International Center for Research on Women, notes that women bear the heaviest burden of AIDS around the world. "Women still have problems discussing safe sex with their partners," says Gupta. "This survey highlights the extent to which stigma continues...
...Angolans, then built his own computers from spare parts and used them to set up a computer-training school. Today Cassolongo's company, Cassca Technologies, is one of the only online testing centers in Angola for international IT certification, and as the economy booms--a predicted 35% this year--demand for Cassca courses is soaring. But unlike Woo's, Cassolongo's difficulties are entirely domestic. "We face a lot of corruption," he says, using the Portuguese slang gasosa, which literally means fizzy drink. "Documents don't come out until you pay. You have to have connections everywhere...
...countries is a wash. "That doesn't mean democracy isn't desirable," he says. "It just doesn't help economic growth." As countries grow richer, though, many--like Chile, Spain and Greece--adopt democracy. "Democracy," says Sala-i-Martin, "seems to be what economists would call a luxury good." Demand for it increases as incomes rise...
...Darjeeling's oldest tea estate is turning its original factory into a working museum. "Innovation, along with quality and marketing, is the key to surviving today," says Ambootia Tea chairman Sanjay Bansal, who says he has turned around 11 dying tea estates. "That's how I'm able to demand ridiculous prices for my teas." Darjeeling tea, for instance, can be sold for up to 10 times the typical $3.54 per lb. ($1.61 per kg) for other Indian teas, and Ambootia's Brumes d'Himalaya, a "first flush," or spring-harvest, tea, sold at a high-end boutique in Paris...
...this new investment is an attempt to correct years of neglect. For decades, India was the biggest producer, exporter and consumer of tea in the world. That changed in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, India's largest export market, where demand fell by two-thirds, to less than 88 million lbs. (40 million kg) per year. India's producers had grown reliant on that guaranteed market, failing to maintain their bushes and machinery, and they never really recovered. Sri Lanka and Kenya are now the world's biggest exporters, each selling about 692 million lbs. (314 million...