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46% of Brazilians descend from Africans. Brazil is the second largest Black country in the world, second to Nigeria.

Mobile Remittances in Venezuela

This is my new friend Roman Martinez. In Venezeula, Diemo has launched mobile banking with GSM network provider Digitel. The service gives remote and geerally poor residents the ability to transfer money wirelessly via a cell phone to a store where a third party...

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In Latin America, every country except for Mexico invests approximately 1% of it’s education budget in learning materials. The rest goes into salaries. Mexico invests approximately 5% into learning materials. World Economic Forum in Latin America.

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70 million children are not in school around the world, and 55% are girls. World Economic Forum on Latin America