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Economics focus

机译:经济学重点

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Wedged between stalls of dried fish and mounds of plastic goods, a red shipping container is loaded with Coca-Cola bottles. The local distributor for Soweto market, located in a tatty corner of Zambia's capital city, Lusaka, sells all its stock every few days. A full load costs lorn kwacha (about $2,000). In cash, this amount can be hard to get hold of, takes ages to count and-being ten times the average annual wage-is tempting to thieves. So Coca-Cola now tells its 300 Zambian distributors to pay for deliveries not in cash, but by sending text messages from their mobile phones. The process takes about 30 seconds, and the driver issues a receipt. Faraway computers record the movement of money and stock. Coca-Cola is not alone. Around the corner from the market, a small dry-cleaning firm lets customers pay for laundry using their phones. So do Zambian petrol stations, and dozens of bigger shops and restaurants.
机译:在干鱼摊和塑料制品堆之间,一个红色的运输容器中装有可口可乐瓶。 Soweto市场的本地分销商位于赞比亚首都卢萨卡的一个繁华地段,每隔几天就会出售其所有库存。满负荷花费lorn kwacha(约2,000美元)。用现金来说,这笔钱很难掌握,要花很多年才能算出来,并且是平均年薪的十倍,这很容易吸引小偷。因此,可口可乐现在告诉其300个赞比亚分销商以现金付款,而不是通过手机发送短信来付款。该过程大约需要30秒钟,驾驶员会发出收据。遥远的计算机记录着金钱和股票的动向。可口可乐并不孤单。在市场的拐角处,一家小型干洗公司允许客户使用手机付款。赞比亚的加油站以及数十家较大的商店和餐馆也是如此。

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