Television in Haiti resembles the nation's other underdeveloped industries, like agriculture, manufacturing and construction, in at least one way: Humanitarian aid organizations lose faith in local solutions, and the country's business and political elite never had any.
The hope is to diversify the country's business world, using the country's vast wealth it has accumulated over the years to invest in profitable ventures and focusing on underdeveloped industries like tourism and arms.
Although the Russian economy was mainly agricultural and underdeveloped, industry—largely financed by foreign capital was growing rapidly in a few centers, notably St .Petersburg, Moscow, and the Baku (Baky; now in Azerbaijan) oil fields.
In spite of this development, this competence is still underdeveloped in industry.
Condé Nast Traveler says "today's bargains are in Central America where turbulent politics and an underdeveloped tourism industry have kept prices low".
Like many others in this west African nation's underdeveloped fruit industry, she has suffered from the lack of an accessible and profitable market for her papayas.
"It seems to me there are still a lot of constraints for Vietnam to take this chance: poor infrastructure and an underdeveloped logistics industry, an abundant but unskilled labor force, etc".
The agreement is an important initial step toward encouraging private-sector investment in Djibouti's underdeveloped fishing industry and will impact the entire sector significantly.
Knowledge networks are underdeveloped in emerging industries, and public support for research projects is dispersed.
And the continent's real problems lie in such things as a lack of entrepreneurial spirit, weak links between universities, business and government, an underdeveloped venture-capital industry, a cumbersome patent process and red tape that ties small companies in knots.
A decade after being developed, and four years after the emergence of Skype, VoIP telephony remains an underdeveloped niche technology, industry experts said, one that is struggling to compete against the market clout of large phone companies, a labyrinth of new technical standards and consumer indifference.
