• Much of this increase in demand will come from the transportation sector and largely in the developing world, where poorer people will use oil and other conventional energy sources to improve their living standards.

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  • They may be needed, though probably not in Kinshasa's leafy diplomatic district where the fighting took place, so much as in poorer districts where rival supporters will be fired up by commentaries from television stations belonging to the two candidates.

    ECONOMIST: Congo

  • Under Mr Wahid's predecessor, Suharto, Aceh's natural gas was siphoned off and did little to help the province, where people are poorer than on Java.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia

  • But the prices of food, land and agricultural commodities could be driven up, it warns, with major impacts in poorer countries where people spend a much greater share of their incomes on food than in developed nations.

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  • But the real opportunities for the private sector lie in poorer countries, where public provision has so often been inadequate.

    ECONOMIST: Private passions

  • Grey markets may also make western firms reluctant to sell products in poorer countries, where they have to accept lower prices.

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  • In poorer countries, where a larger part of family income is spent on food, unpredictable harvests and volatile food prices can lead to social unrest.

    CNN: The driest season: Global drought causes major worries

  • Not so China's poorer interior, where the dark colour of colas is associated with the dark tea traditionally used to mask the sediment in the local water.

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  • The director, Adam Leon, follows them, energetically and sympathetically, in their adventures through tangy New York locations from poorer neighborhoods, where they get roughed up in body, to richer ones, where they get bruised in soul.

    NEWYORKER: Gimme the Loot

  • For the poorer countries of Melanesia, where bulges in the populations of young people threaten social unrest, the freer movement of labour is more enticing.

    ECONOMIST: Fiji and the Pacific Islands Summit

  • The focus this year is on the poorer provinces in the north of Argentina where maternal deaths are highest.

    BBC: Debate over legalising abortion intensifies in Argentina

  • Japan's is the only major economy in the world where house prices will make people richer rather than poorer over the next five years.

    FORBES: Back In Business

  • The total sum of bonuses announced by banks this year will be considerably less than last year, because it has been a poorer year for investment banking, which is where the bulk of bonuses are paid.

    BBC: No deal yet on bonuses or bank lending

  • Meanwhile, the Northern League, which opposes the intervention, is pushing through legislation that will devolve fiscal powers to the regions, and so keep northern money where it is, rather than have it subsidize the poorer south.

    NEWYORKER: Booted

  • This revealed that people exposed to second-hand smoke were far more likely to have poorer hearing than others, and to a degree where they might struggle to follow a conversation in the presence of background noise.

    BBC: Hearing loss linked to passive smoking

  • The problem, though, appears that the election might further divide a country that the results appeared to separate into two distinct entities: the cities and industrial areas that largely voted for Mr. Anwar's multiracial alliance, and the countryside, where the National Front tapped most of its support from less-populated, poorer, but more numerous Malay-dominated districts.

    WSJ: Malaysia Opposition Leader Vows to Fight 'Rigged' Vote

  • The poorer 2012 figures are also explained by sharp declines in big key markets where customers are facing economic difficulties.

    BBC: Growth stalls for Scotch whisky exports

  • Barry Sindall, chief executive of the Grammar School Heads Association, quoted from a 2008 Sutton Trust study which suggested that the social make-up of grammar schools was often more diverse than that of the top 100 comprehensives where entrance is decided on proximity to the school, pushing up house prices and excluding poorer families.

    BBC: Education & Family

  • In most parts of the world Coke's sales are driven by the famous fizz, with richer countries, where calories are all too abundant, leaning increasingly towards Diet Coke, developed in 1982, and poorer countries leaning towards the original sugary stuff dating back to the 19th century.

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