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ANGOLA ARGENTINA BOLIVIA
More than 2.5 million
people a month pass
through Farmacity’s stores,
which are run by Sebastian
Miranda. The company,
founded in 1997, has
300 locations and is the
nation’s biggest employer
of pharmacists.
W O R L D Suárez Bello has owned
30 For over 30 years, Carlos
and operated a popular
Angola is trying to solve Italian joint, Michelangelo,
R OF an electricity crisis partly in Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s big-
E gest city. Now he’s started
N by turning to a stackable fast-food restaurant

N battery made by Swiss- TutiCapa Pasta y Pizza.
based Power-Blox.
U F O R B E S
R
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N CHINA
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R Across the planet, these 34 licensed
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editions span five continents,

27 languages and 24 time zones.
They all share the same mission:
to celebrate entrepreneurial
capitalism in all its guises.

BRAZIL
CZECH REPUBLIC CYPRUS Liu Erhai ranks among China’s top VCs thanks to his invest-

Brazilian startup Fix It has ment in Luckin Coffee, which is battling Starbucks there.
an innovative take on an
old medical product: It
makes light, 3D-printed, FRANCE GEORGIA
biodegradable braces
to treat injuries such as
broken bones.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
A recent Forbes Czech
special issue devoted to
health care put a spot-
light on entrepreneurs
including Czech neuro- To speed the Bank of
scientist Martin Tolar, Cyprus’ stalled recovery

whose Boston-based from the 2013 financial
Alzheon is working on an crisis, new CEO Panicos
Alzheimer’s treatment. Nicolaou is slicing away
bad loans from the insti- Forbes Georgia made a
tution’s balance sheet— Leblon Delienne, a maker statement of support for
and looking into how it of high-end pop-art sculp- prominent doctor Vazha
might digitize. A new list of Central tures, has teamed up with Gaprindashvili by depicting
America’s most creative Disney to turn out a line of him on its January cover;

people featured artists Mickey Mouse figurines. he was detained for 49
GREECE including Romeo Santos, days in South Ossetia,
who drew 80,000 people a breakaway region of
to MetLife Stadium in INDIA the country.
New Jersey last year.
Cricket isn’t the only
game in India, where
interest in Olympic
sports like shooting,
GERMANY wrestling and boxing

is on the rise—the latter
BlackRock wants to take
over the world, and from her
Alpine corner of it, Mirjam
Staub-Bisang is leading Olive oil estate, anyone?
the $85 billion money Greek property is becoming
manager’s efforts in Swit- an increasingly popular

zerland, focused partly on investment amid govern-
sustainable investments like ment incentives to spark
Geberit and Umicore. the real estate industry. HUNGARY ISRAEL

After selling his truck Moshe BenBassat, a
INDONESIA company, Hungarian college professor, was an
industrialist György early AI evangelist—and

A new report from Google, Bain & Co. and the Singapore Wáberer has invested has now sold his firm,

state investment firm Temasek lists Indonesia as the largest $10 million in a new ClickSoftware, to Sales-
and fastest-growing digital economy in Southeast Asia, private clinic, Wáberer force for $1.4 billion.
rising fourfold since 2015 to $40 billion in 2019. Medical Center.
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