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China became the world’s
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car market in 2010.
In the telecommunications sector, there are now a half-dozen emerging-market multinationals in the global
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ten.
Its
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financial shareholder is another emerging-market multinational, South Africa’s Naspers.
And they are rapidly climbing the value chain: in 2010, [WA1] according to Booz &Company, South Korea’s Samsung became one of the world’s
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ten companies in terms of R&D investment.
He then cited empirical work suggesting that financial deepening is useful only in the early stages of economic development, evidence of a negative correlation between financial deepening and real investment, and the withering conclusion of Adair Turner, Britain’s former
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financial regulator: “There is no clear evidence that the growth in the scale and complexity of the financial system in the rich developed world over the last 20 to 30 years has driven increased growth or stability.”
It also confirms that China’s
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leaders can be moved when the international community, led by the US, puts specific cases like his on the table.
Bertrand and Morse find that in the years before the crisis, in areas (usually states) where consumption was high among households in the
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fifth of the income distribution, household consumption was high at lower income levels as well.
To help guide the process, the Copenhagen Consensus Center asked 62 teams of
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economists to determine where limited resources could do the most good by 2030.
Finally, Hu, Wen, and the rest of the
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leadership have turned themselves into superb firefighters with an uncanny ability to, in Party parlance, “nip the seeds of opposition before they sprout.”
“White households earn at least five times more than black households,” said Zuma, and “only 10% of the
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100 companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange are owned by black South Africans.”
Whites still represent 72% of
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management.
My think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus, has asked 60 teams of the world’s
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economists to examine most of them.
There are as many opinions about what should be the
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priority for funders as there are options.
In RethinkHIV, we engage some of the world’s
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HIV economists, epidemiologists, and demographers in this vital discussion about priorities.
For Kenya’s largest daily, the exodus of
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talent was the latest blow to an already tarnished reputation.
Of America’s
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15 trading partners – that is, self-sufficient countries that consume US goods and services – 11 are former aid recipients.
Senior US officials, including Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, have recently suggested that Saddam Hussein and his
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henchmen might be given an amnesty for their past crimes in exchange for leaving Iraq and averting war.
At the time, I was Senior Policy Adviser for the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and Labor – a position that made me the
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congressional staff member responsible for upholding labor standards in international trade treaties.
Singapore and South Korea were at the very
top.
They have rightly given the eurozone crisis – the central question bearing on the European Union’s future –
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priority.
For both men, the goal of clinging to power was a
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priority.
CHICAGO – It is amazing how the “one percent” epithet, a reference to the
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1% of earners, has caught on in the United States and elsewhere in the developed world.
But what might be the most important overlooked fact is that the rise in income inequality is not just at the very top, though it is most pronounced there.
Academic studies suggest that the
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tenth percentile of income distribution in the US, and elsewhere, is also moving farther away from the median earner.
Close examination suggests that the single biggest difference between those at or above the
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tenth percentile of the income distribution and those below the 50th percentile is that the former have a degree or two while the latter, typically, do not.
Indeed, NATO’s
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general, James Jones, has called drugs the “Achilles heel” of Afghanistan.
Opium money is corrupting Afghan society from
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to bottom.
But none of Obama’s predecessors achieved any of these goals, either, whereas he can claim credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden and more than half of al-Qaeda’s
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leadership.
These targets are likely to be rigorously implemented, given strong political support from the very
top.
At America’s most elite universities, for example, only around 9% of students come from the bottom half of the population, while 74% come from the
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quarter.
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