Americans take advantage of the higher productivity that makes their country rich: better education and infrastructure, abundant capital and a strong work ethic.
"Resilient infrastructure, abundant food and water, affordable medical treatments, smart communities — these are engineering marvels that we all want to experience," said Barry Johnson, acting National Science Foundation (NSF) assistant director for engineering.
A year after the revolution's end, I took advantage of Tunisia's well-developed tourism infrastructure — abundant hotels, clean restaurants and generally effective transportation — and began an eight-day journey by bus and train to see the country's storied sights and take the pulse of its vital and suffering tourism sector.
In addition to the traditional mining firms, new arrivals (banks, mobile-phone firms and retailers) have been active north of the border and making money.Yet cumbersome logistics, poor infrastructure, abundant red tape, a shortage of skilled workers and HIV/AIDS remain real challenges.
Its advanced telecommunications infrastructure and abundant computing resources are another draw.
The cloud can build bridges between mobile devices, as a convenient ubiquitous interface, and a backbone infrastructure with abundant computing resources.
In 2007, Kenyan telecom company Safaricom launched its M-PESA mobile money service to a market lacking retail banking infrastructure yet abundant in mobile phone users.
We studied the established delivery models and realized that even with high-quality existing infrastructure and abundant financial resources, Amazon found it difficult to deliver quality groceries to its U.S. customers.
South Sudan has abundant oil reserves but little infrastructure, and poverty is rife after decades of civil war with Sudan.
America's shale-gas boom was fuelled by a coincidence of factors: "open access" pipeline regulation, which inspired wildcat exploration; abundant drill-rigs and other infrastructure; and strong property rights, whereby landowners own the rights to minerals beneath their holdings.
