In the meantime, Africa has become one of the fastest growing regions in the world, prompting the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, to claim that "Africa offers the highest rate of return on foreign direct investment of any developing region in the world".
"I want all of my fellow American citizens, particularly our business community, to hear this: Africa offers the highest rate of return on foreign direct investment of any developing region in the world," AFP news agency quotes her as saying.
Japan has consistently had the worst ranking of any developed economy on this index since it was introduced in 2006.
Ok, so content was rather unfashionable with VCs back then, and what they told me only served to strengthen my resolve to make Shiny successful, but in retrospect I do think that many of the VCs had quite an accurate take on the difficulties facing any developing independent media companies in the UK.
Most experts agree there is no scientific evidence to suggest WiFi signals have any effect on a developing fetus, but that hasn't stopped a Chinese tech company from adding a "pregnancy" setting to its new router.
After I took a pregnancy test she provided, my husband joined us, and we talked a little more about our worries regarding pregnancy: namely, that since I was on medications for health conditions (which was true), we were concerned about any effect on a developing fetus.
It now has generous public funding until 2016, and Britain will keep spending far more on state broadcasting than any developed country except Germany.
In 2001, they bought the first home built on a developing street before any neighbors had even purchased lots.
It will pay for sample collection, and Russia will get royalties on any chemicals developed from the effort.
