Sentences with phrase «with weak infrastructure»

The app was originally launched in Asia and Africa, but Facebook later made it available in developed countries that also have regions with weak infrastructure, or where users are trying to save on their surfing packages.

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These factors, together with low levels of transparency, weak financial institutions, and inadequate infrastructure have acted as a deterrent to investment — despite the fact that countries like Guinea or the Democratic Republic of Congo have immense mineral resources.

Today the most intense competition in the globally integrated market is not between the gigantic Transnational Corporations, but it is between governments that find themselves competing with one another for investors by offering the cheapest and most compliant labor; the weakest environmental, health, and safety standards, the lowest taxes; and the most fully developed infrastructure.

It's an area with weak governments, and reasonably weak regional infrastructure; coupled with tons of conflicts (tribal etc...).

For women in Asian nations with weaker health infrastructure, Hanley adds, «The vaccine may be their only hope of prevention.»

Haiti is a country at risk, with poverty, weak infrastructure, limited access to electricity, and extreme weather all putting its population in jeopardy.

Areas with weak health infrastructure - mostly in developing countries - will be the least able to cope without assistance to prepare and respond.

And their weak electricity infrastructure will be an obstacle for the introduction of plug - in hybrids, not to mention the high upfront costs that go along with the early adoption of any new technology.

An extreme exposure to climate - related events, combined with poor health care access, weak infrastructure, high levels of poverty and an over-reliance on agriculture have led to the country being categorized as at «extreme» risk.

is riddled with weak links, and neither Ring nor its smart - home brethren can control the infrastructure's frequent unpredictability.

Such investments are a good sign for the bitcoin industry as both companies are aiming to bring solid and robust exchange services into countries and regions with weak bitcoin infrastructures.

The country has long been attractive to foreigners — particularly those from the United States and Canada — to purchase vacation or second homes due to the weaker Mexican peso compared with the U.S. dollar, notes Salvador Romero Dominguez, a commercial director for Fonatur, a government agency that constructs a lot of the nation's resort infrastructures.