India got $52 billion from its diaspora, more than it took in foreign direct investment.In this section The aid workers who really help A no-brainer A shifting locus Mirror, mirror on the wall Reprints Related items Human development indexOct 8th 2009Impressive as these figures are, measuring the real impact is hard.
Adding iron to food costs less than ten cents a head per year, and the economic return (in productivity) might be 36 times as much; adding folic acid to diets costs four or five cents per head per year, with a payback of perhaps 120-fold.In this section The aid workers who really help A no-brainer A shifting locus Mirror, mirror on the wall ReprintsSo why, for example, is all salt not iodised?
It is also necessary to explore implicit benefits of crowdsourcing such as marketing, public relation, intelligence, building long-term relation with participants, and probably most importantly shifting locus of cost of ideation from firms to crowds.
This week is also an opportunity for us to consider -- even for a moment -- a shifting locus of power.
By the 21st century it was evident that advanced economies would depend more on human capital than on physical capital and on the production of services rather than the manufacture of goods; as a consequence, cities were shifting from loci of industrial production to centres of knowledge.
But the arrival of President George W. Bush is shifting the locus of influence and style a few miles west, across the Potomac River to Northern Virginia.
In the short term, the crackdown has resulted in smugglers raising their fees to $1,200£75050) and shifting the locus of their operation.
He and the affiliate stations not owned by the networks fear that by shifting the locus of programming decisions to big corporate headquarters in New York and Los Angeles, small and medium-size cities will suffer.
"What is potentially transformative about this deal is a future where Microsoft retains its focus on enterprise, while shifting the locus of its business from companies to employees," notes Thompson.
