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...economic, religious, etc., six values. I cannot judge myself, but I believe I would not score very highly on religious value. I do not believe that prayer can cure, but that prayer may comfort and help. At the same time, I've seen my closest friend [former Finance Minister] Hon Sui Sen on his deathbed; he had had a heart attack and was fighting for his life, doctors were there, the priest was there, but there was no fear in his eyes. He and his wife were devout Catholics. They were both convinced they would meet again in the hereafter...
...Mekong Delta are a maze of rivers and canals dotted with villages so impoverished that local farmers earn less than $1 a day. It is not an obvious place to seek a fortune, but capitalism finds a way. Steering his ramshackle boat along the Ke Sat River, Nguyen Van Hon operates a floating sundries distributorship. The wooden hold of his boat is heavy with boxes containing small bars of Lifebuoy soap and single-use sachets of Sunsilk shampoo, which he sells to riverside shopkeepers for as little as 2.5? each. Hon's first stop of the day is Xa Nhon...
...most passengers are indeed goats. Should the worst occur, says McLean, "people don't have a clue. They want you to come by and say, O.K., hon, it's time to go. Plane's on fire...
...Hon's customers may not know it, but they and billions of their counterparts in the world's shantytowns and slums represent the next big marketing opportunity for multinational companies. With sales growth harder to come by in a competitive world, enterprising companies are seeking expansion among the long-ignored lower classes. And it's about time, says C.K. Prahalad, well-known consultant and economist at the University of Michigan, who says these "aspirational poor"--people earning less than $2 a day who make up three-fourths of the world's population--could contribute an additional $13 trillion in annual...
...developing countries for more than a decade. Unilever's Vietnam subsidiary alone saw sales rise 23% last year to more than $300 million because of aggressive efforts to reach remote parts of the country through an extensive network of more than 100,000 independent sales representatives such as Hon. "People want to look good, whether they're rich or poor," explains Arijit Ghose, marketing manager for Unilever Vietnam. "I've been to tiny villages where there is no electricity and no running water indoors, and yet there's Sunsilk...