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A member of China's first class of women fighter pilots prepares to board her aircraft during a ceremony with new flight gear designed for women, at a People's Liberation Army (PLA) air force base in Beijing on August 30, 2009. The pilots will make their debut during the upcoming National Day Parade. China could launch its first woman into space as early as 2012, the candidate being chosen from this group. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
The 8 page .pdf document that Google submitted in response to the NAA's (Newspaper Association of America) request for information. - Regarding the proposed micropayment platform
"This document identifies Google's capabilities in these areas, highlights our planned and existing tools, lays out our vision for what this ecosystem might look like, and hopefully opens the door to more detailed discussions with the NAA and individual publishers"
Microfinance in Africa: Bringing Financial Services to Africa’s Poor, finds that simple Village Savings and Loan Associations – run primarily by poor women with no outside capital investment – successfully weathered the financial crisis while providing loans to many of Africa’s poorest people. The report tells of women – many living on less than $2 a day – who pooled a few pennies and made small loans to help people start small businesses.
From: the National Bureau of Economic Research, by J. Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard, David N. Weil
"as people get richer, they have the money to spend on light and demand more light," adding, "We also know that when they get rich enough, they demand infrastructure for electricity, not just for lights but for televisions, radios, refrigerators, and whatnot. So we see that as people get richer they do more activities at night, they drive at night, they get street lights and so on."
"In all these different ways the amount of light that people consume is an indicator of how wealthy people are" David Weil says
