A report from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company said "global businesses cannot afford to ignore the potential" in African economies, the New York Times reports. Compiled by the company's economic research center, the McKinsey Global Institute, the analysis points out that 316 million Africans, a number greater than the total U.S. population, have signed up for mobile phone service since 2000. Africa's population of one billion also spent $860 billion in 2008, "more than India's population of 1.2 billion," the newspaper writes (Dugger, 6/23)... 
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