Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty? | New York Times

"(...) “Just in time” is a manufacturing concept that was popularized by the Japanese carmaker Toyota (...) Toyota became, in essence, lighter on its feet (...) There are a growing number of economists who maintain that cellphones can restructure developing countries in a similar way. Cellphones, after all, have an economizing effect. (...)"

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