…water use of 18 million Panamanians (at 106 gallons per person per day). To put this comparison in perspective, consider that the entire country of Panama has a population of…

…zones. Behind barbed-wire walls and a grand gated entranceway, the Thilawa SEZ offers manufacturers substantial investment incentives and high-grade hard infrastructures, sharply differentiating it from its surroundings in a country…

…if not among the country’s very poorest, and the broader movement inspired by Yunus and his fellow pioneers now serves more than 200 million people globally. Each week, microfinance institutions…

…security of devices, networks, and people. While the vulnerability of IoT devices is now well known, it is not just cheap consumer equipment that lacks sensible protocols or whose existing…

…most urgent health problem facing the country at the current time,” just behind access to health care, and ahead of cancer and obesity. The disjuncture between the actual threat posed…

…colorless, translucent oil developed to meet Europe’s (chiefly Britain’s) demand for tin cans, cheap margarine, and cheap soap (Billows and Beckwith 1892:3). Soft palm oil, low in free fatty acids,…

…some revolutionary ambitions. But is it a better tent? Does it live up to its aims of producing a compact, cheap, lightweight product for meeting a basic human need? The…

When the German federal parliament voted virtually unanimously in favor of an accelerated nuclear phase-out in June 2011, the country had finally reached its nuclear consensus. In the 1990s the…

…began rolling out its wireless network. Digicel was warmly welcomed by a country whose citizens felt neglected—if not downright mistreated—by the erstwhile state-owned monopoly Telikom due to the prohibitively expensive…

…They form community laboratories, but also work at home, or between university, corporate, and community laboratories. Frequent activities include the fabrication and selling of cheap and user-friendly laboratory instruments and…

…its future potential so dominates the history of civilization that has come to define it. “The countryside lived off its harvest and cities off the surplus,” Braudel writes, and so…

…few months of the war, fragmented donor lists were brought together and remodeled within the country’s first national health service, the wartime Emergency Blood Transfusion Service (EBTS). To the British…

…to travel. This is the story she tells: Owning a boat in a landlocked country means something vastly different than it does in an island nation. Owning a cell phone…

…anywhere in the country,” said the consultant. “Ask him to guess what chain he is in.” Chances are, he can’t. The “punchline” is left unsaid, because grocery insiders intuitively know…

…crowds, dressed in their Sunday best, disembarked from their buses and walked toward the grounds, now peppered with new signage. The first of these gave a hint of what was…

…reservations from those who are otherwise sympathetic to the case for disclosure. Long-term critic of government secrecy Steven Aftergood explained his reservations about WikiLeaks just as the Manning disclosures were…

…between rebel factions and the ruling government of the fictional country of Changa, 200,000 refugees fled to neighboring countries where they faced starvation and disease. Hundreds of US Peace Corps…

…often restrict workers country location as a proxy for filtering workers without the presumed-to-be-stable cultural literacies their subjective tasks require. Large-scale requesters maintain databases, organized by alphanumeric ID, recording workers’…

…for Dummies), as well as historical and theoretical volumes such as USSR, The Country where The Sun Never Goes Down (1971) by Emil Schulthess and The Modern Warfare (1984) by…

…state regulation commissions.[1] Today, there are seven ISOs across the country, each of which runs an electricity market and operates the grid based on market results. ISOs are responsible for…

…Nepal. While Nepal is a country with abundant water resources, the same fractal topography that provides Himalayan “hydraulic head” also limits the reach and feasibility of large-scale energy infrastructures. In…

…caught on. The company displayed enough marketing imagination to distribute it for free to Boy Scout troops across the country, and by 1924 had begun to offer machine-cut Band-Aids in…

…cultural dynamics that are often particular to a given country or region. For example, development staff hoped to achieve a much greater level of “country ownership” over the policies that…

…living with diabetes during a year of fieldwork in the Central American country of Belize. It initially came as a surprise to me how expensive and out of reach the…

…not just by the United States, but by every country wealthy enough to do so—credible defenses either lag, or remain inaccessible, generally only available to corporations with deep enough pockets….

…system offered its analysts the option to “Show me all the exploitable machines in country X,” meaning that the U.S. government systematically evaluated all the available machines in some nations…