The Southeast Asian nation has the same potential for rapid growth as the region’s other economies, but realizing that …
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Is India’s Growth Story Over?
Is India heading towards the end of its much-touted growth story? A report by global credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) released on June 11 seems to suggest so. Titled “Will India be the first BRIC fallen …
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The Fall of Bo Xilai and the Future of Chinese Growth
The fall of Bo Xilai, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party in the sprawling mid-Western city of Chongqing, is the stuff of movies. A member of the party elite and supposed corruption fighter who was seen to have …
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Why Is Unemployment Falling So Fast When Growth Is So Slow?
The U.S. unemployment rate has fallen from 9% to about 8% in the last year, to the delight of everyone from job seekers to the Obama re-election team. But traditional economic theory tells us that shouldn’t have happened unless the economy was growing by double its current 2.5% rate.
How do you get both equity and prosperity?
Here’s Jim Manzi (no, not that one; this one), writing in National Affairs (via Michael Pettis) on the question, addressed here a couple of days ago, of balancing economic security with economic dynamism:
Conservatives have …, as a rhetorical and political strategy, downplayed the problems of cohesion — problems like inequality, wage
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