Hacker News with Generative AI: Emerging Markets

What to know about BRICS and its growing clout (bloomberg.com)
The BRICS group of emerging-market powers — the acronym stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — has gone from a slogan dreamed up at an investment bank two decades ago to a real-world club that controls a multilateral lender.
Politics, Economics, International Relations, Emerging Markets
3 points by heresie-dabord 33 days ago | 0 comments
Can 4G feature phones rise again on QVGA, thin clients, and remote browsers? (theregister.com)
It's hard to get excited about feature phones with 320 x 240 resolution, but Shioupyn Shen thinks precisely such devices are about to bring millions of people to the web in a new way.
Mobile Technology, Feature Phones, Internet Access, Emerging Markets
12 points by rntn 51 days ago | 0 comments
The most surprising tech champions of 2024 (restofworld.org)
Lesser-known tech companies were rewarded by changing headwinds outside the West this year. India’s homegrown EV industry, a Chinese video game that became a soft power success, and a U.S.-based walkie-talkie app that proved unexpectedly popular in Kenya are some of Rest of World’s most surprising winners in global tech in 2024.
Technology, Emerging Markets, Business, 2024 Trends
11 points by donohoe 78 days ago | 0 comments
The missing middle: firms in developing countries (asteriskmag.com)
The central question of development economics is simple: how can poor countries become rich?
Development Economics, Emerging Markets, Economics
102 points by falcor84 137 days ago | 184 comments