Economy « Week In China - Part 45

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Mixed signals from the Chinese economy
Apr 24, 2009 (WiC 12)

If the helmsman is not nervous, the passengers will feel secure” goes the old saying. The Chinese leadership was doing its best to appear pretty nerveless last week, as the economic data on the most recent quarter began coming ...

Asian forum meets for the ninth time in China’s Hainan province
Apr 24, 2009 (WiC 12)

Jackie Chan is no stranger to stealing scenes and at this year’s Boao Forum he certainly did that. The actor sparked controversy when he stated at a panel discussion that he was confused about the issue of “freedom”. Observing that both ...

How the nexus of thinktanks and academics impacts economic policy
Apr 9, 2009 (WiC 10)

In the 1990s you couldn’t say much here,” says Professor Cui Zhiyuan of Tsinghua University. “But today it is much freer and the internet has made a world of difference. As long as you don’t write that the Communist Party should be ...

Chinese companies have been punting on derivatives too
Apr 9, 2009 (WiC 10)

It is a little over six years since Warren Buffett first warned that many of the more exotic financial instruments in circulation could be potential “time bombs” – and around eighteen months since the first wave of derivatives began to ...

It’s a city you’ve never heard of, but its traces are all over your home...
Apr 3, 2009 (WiC 9)

Whether it’s a sheikh’s headscarf, a pair of surgical gloves or just a bog-standard T-shirt, the chances are it was sourced from Yiwu. The Chinese city is a sort of Silk Road for modern China’s exports – a place where foreign buyers come ...

Is deflation the next fire China’s leaders must fight?
Mar 27, 2009 (WiC 8)

China’s State Council and the moon goddess Chang’e have shared a preoccupation with soft landings in recent weeks. Chang’e has given her name to the lunar probe mission that culminated in a deliberate crash landing on the moon. China’s ...

Why Beijing is so fixated on 8% growth
Mar 27, 2009 (WiC 8)

In an uncertain world, familiar orthodoxies take on a comforting glow. For example, the expectation that the English football team won’t make it past the quarter finals of next year’s soccer World Cup, or the knowledge that the former Soviet ...

The National People’s Congress meets annually. So what actually happens?
Mar 13, 2009 (WiC 6)

Appalling old waxworks”, was how Prince Charles referred to them in his diaries. England’s future king was referring to the Chinese dignitaries who had made the trip to Hong Kong to commemorate the colony’s return to Chinese rule. But ...

There are 20 million unemployed workers in the countryside. Any solutions?
Mar 6, 2009 (WiC 5)

If you want to get an idea of how basic life is in the Chinese countryside, it is worth devoting a couple of hours to watching Not One Less. Zhang Yimou’s award-winning movie is made in a documentary style with real rural folk playing ...

A curious idea for linking executive pay to that of professors
Mar 6, 2009 (WiC 5)

Forbearance is in vogue in the boardroom in 2009. Hence chief executives at the Detroit automakers drive rather than jet to Washington for bailout hearings, and will join Vikram Pandit, chief executive at Citigroup, in swearing to work for no ...

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