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Together, these cities account for 11% of China’s total population and 30% of its GDP.
Thus, the main components of Foshan’s escape from poverty can be replicated in other Chinese cities.
Foshan’s net exports declined from 30% of GDP in 2006 to 18% in 2012, reflecting a much earlier shift to domestic markets than occurred in other Chinese manufacturing cities like Wenzhou (25% of GDP), Dongguan (32%), and Shenzhen (37%).
The third surprise was why only Foshan took these six steps, even though other cities could have done so easily.
In 2012, Foshan’s debt-service costs – financed, as in other Chinese cities, largely through extra-budgetary land sales – amounted to 47% of its fiscal revenue.
But, unless nearby cities do the same, such efforts will have minimal impact.
They now argue that Putin personally chose repression in responding to the protest movement that filled the streets of Moscow and other major cities in late 2011 and early 2012.
In most cities, rents and home prices have increased faster than incomes, and in urban areas with robust job markets, housing stocks have failed to keep pace with demand.
In cities like Rio de Janeiro, land costs can account for more than 40% of a home’s price; in extremely expensive markets, like San Francisco, it can be double that.
To address these concerns, many cities hold public hearings or put projects to a vote.
In some cities, repeated lawsuits and requests for further study delay projects for years and add millions of dollars to development costs.
By managing density carefully, authorities can overcome opposition and get their cities building again.
China's government regards the threat of capital losses on its dollar-denominated securities as less important than the need to maintain near-full employment in coastal manufacturing cities like Shanghai.
The Globalization of ProtestNEW YORK – The protest movement that began in Tunisia in January, subsequently spreading to Egypt, and then to Spain, has now become global, with the protests engulfing Wall Street and cities across America.
Within a month, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), in collaboration with my company, MacroMarkets, as well as Fiserv and Standard & Poor’s, will launch futures and options contracts on home prices in ten cities in the United States.
I believe there is a very good chance that many of these futures markets will soon be predicting substantial price declines in some US cities over the next year.
Everyone knows that there has been a huge real estate boom in many of these cities (and elsewhere in the world) in recent years.
International investors are not likely to want to invest in these cities unless expectations of a price decline are built into the futures markets, as people in Tokyo understand from their own bitter experience.
When markets create an international consensus on the future price of homes in cities around the world, we will be better able to manage the risks facing these cities, thereby stabilizing their economies – and our own lives.
Last month, tens of thousands of people in 90 Russian cities took to the streets to protest against corruption.
In one of the first studies of its kind, the McKinsey Africa Consumer Insights Center surveyed 13,000 individuals from 15 cities in ten of the continent’s 54 countries in 2011 and 2012.
But, throughout the continent, market opportunities for consumer-facing companies are concentrated more in cities than in particular countries.
Indeed, with 40% of its population living in cities, Africa is more urbanized than India (30%), and nearly as urbanized as China (45%).
By 2016, more than 500 million Africans will live in urban centers, and the number of cities with more than one million people is expected to reach 65, up from 52 in 2011 (on par with Europe and higher than India and North America).
Whereas cities had long been SPD strongholds, they are switching to the Greens and other smaller parties.
These and other coastal ecosystems are the first line of defense for many cities around the world, from Miami to Manila.
Despite the challenges some African countries face, the continent’s economic potential remains massive, thanks to favorable demographic dynamics, fast-growing cities, burgeoning domestic markets, and a digital revolution.
Somewhat unexpectedly, the Russian authorities, who have forced ever-obedient Russians to move for centuries – from villages to cities, back to villages, to gulags, to khrushchevki – have rushed to provide further guarantees to the khrushchevki’s tenants.
Ugly executions of military and other captives have undoubtedly occurred in Mosul, Tikrit, and other cities seized by ISIS.
The specifics of how citizens can put measures to a popular vote or require the legislature to address them vary substantially from place to place, but 26 states and hundreds of cities, accounting for more than 70% of the US population, have initiatives in their governance tool box.
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