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It's a natural problem
This depends on you trusting a set of intermediaries, and upon an interconnected web of social structures (limited-liability companies, rule of law, etc) that cannot be implanted overnight. If you lack those things you only do business with people you know personally and/or with whom you can get restitution/revenge directly.
There are alternatives (e.g. the halal system) but they don't really scale for other transactions. Usually you get crony capitalism and/or speculative crashes, which the developed world went through for centuries and the mechanisms were ironed out.
Thus people in some countries have a hard time imagining doing a transaction over the Internet with someone they don't know because they would have a hard time doing one over the phone. Don't remember most of the developed world's "internet applications" are really just catalogue shopping -- something people are already familiar with. I wonder if the Internet could be used to help the fishermen in India who are already very comfortable with getting pricing at sea via mobile phone...but they already have a solution!
(Some references: I highly highly recommend "The Cash Nexus" by Niall Ferguson, and also "They Mystery of Capital" by Hernando de Soto. Please don't buy them online).
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Not necessarily true
Many people there managed to use the Internet to find some opportunities. People who have translation or programming skills get freelance jobs, there are some other areas where Internet might be helpful in finding some income, while the offline world might not present those possibilities. Granted, a lot of online crime and credit card fraud is also coming from that area of the world as well, but that's happening thanks to the lax legislature and low spread of credit cards there, which is changing. But generally if you have people with education and desire to make a living, Internet is a major helper.
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