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Developing countries are determined to foster stronger domestic science communities. Photo:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/4857944215/">NASA (flickr)</a>

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Space: The economic development frontier

Developing countries are shooting for the moon.

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The history of the modern world, told with moving dots

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Used Soda Bottles Light Up the World, For Free

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Hangzhou, China Pedals to Number One in Bike Sharing

Washington, D.C.’s bike sharing program has 1,100 bikes. London’s system has 6,000. And Paris has more than 20,000.

Markets like these in Egypt bring in local as well as tourist business, helping to increase Egypt's overall economic strength. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9435171@N03/3424964240/sizes/m/in/photostream/">effeietsanders (Flickr)</a>

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Africa May Become First BRIC Continent

Though they are currently considered to be developing economies, the four BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India, and China — are expected to become economically dominant by the year 2050. Now, Jim O'Neill, the econ

A representative from Brazil (right) signs an agreement with the World Bank detailing Brazil's contribution to reconstruction efforts in Haiti. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/4599782922/">World Bank Photo Collection (flickr)</a>

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Brazil Ramps Up Humanitarian Aid

Fiscal austerity may be forcing some countries to cut spending on foreign aid, but this isn’t the case everywhere.

A man extracting latex from a rubber tree. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/transworld/394662094/">Tran's World Productions (Flickr)</a>

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Industry and the Indigenous Pair Up for Profits

The Rikbaktsa are an indigenous group who live in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. For seven decades they extracted latex from the jungle where they live. About 20 years ago the price of latex dropped, making latex extraction unprofitable.

Soap operas in Brazil have been a surprising force for social change. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedroliveira/407890498/" target="_blank">pedroliveira (flickr)</a>

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Learning from the Soaps

Cell phones are the gadgets that are changing the developing world, right? That's what scores of articles over the past few years — including several posts on Global Envision — have said.

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Guide to the Global Summit

The G-20 is meeting this week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

One of the many slums in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldresourcesinstitute/2550699761/">World Resources Institute (flickr)</a>

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Rio de Janeiro Deforestation Plan

In Brazil, forests are rapidly being destroyed, slums are expanding, and crime has reached an all-time high.

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jlagman17/793391037/">Urban Poor Associates (UPA) (flickr)</a>

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One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Livelihood

In March of 2008, over 250 people from 34 different countries gathered to talk about trash in Bogotá.

Traffic in Brazil. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fmcamargo/471875979/">Fernando Meyer (flickr)</a>

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Brazilians put Safety ahead of Economic Concern

Car sales are down just about everywhere. Brazil is no exception. Sales of passenger cars dropped by 10 percent in April, trucks and buses by a quarter. But one niche market seems to be doing just fine: armored cars.

This pharmacy at the Evangel Hospital in Jos, Nigeria could be one of the beneficiaries of cheaper drugs and better facilities from GSK. Photo:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blyth/1439256349/"> MikeBlyth (flickr)</a>

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Changing the Way They Do Business

Pharmaceutical companies are often seen as villains for making life-saving drugs so expensive the poor can't afford them. But what if a new CEO was making drugs more affordable and sharing secrets that would lower profits but result in more cures?