From India Times: Beijing, followed closely by Xi’an, Kathmandu, Dhaka and New Delhi, have the dirtiest air of major Asian cities, according to pollution readings compiled by the Asian Development Bank and obtained during a conference. Air pollution in these cities is five to six times as high as levels that the World Health Organization […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: When residents here in southern mainland China’s richest city learned of plans to build an expressway that would cut through the heart of their congested, middle-class neighborhood, they immediately organized a campaign to fight city hall. Over the next two years they managed to halt work on the most destructive and […]
Read MoreFrom AP via International Herald Tribune: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has set up a Communist Party at the headquarters of its China operations, news reports said Monday. The move follows the success of China’s government-sanctioned union body in organizing unions at Wal-Mart’s 68 outlets in China. The party branch was set up Saturday at Wal-Mart’s China […]
Read MoreFrom Unsettling Economics blog: David Landes recently published an article explaining why the West prospered more than China. You can read the whole thing and scroll down. Landes finds the usual ” that China lacked the proper market arrangements that makes capitalism work. But then he goes further, suggesting that the monasteries (hardly what one […]
Read MoreFrom Unsettling Economics blog: David Landes recently published an article explaining why the West prospered more than China. You can read the whole thing and scroll down. Landes finds the usual ” that China lacked the proper market arrangements that makes capitalism work. But then he goes further, suggesting that the monasteries (hardly what one […]
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