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Is this a good time to buy into the China growth story by buying Chinese stocks?

The new In The News section will help you to keep up with the latest economic news from around the world, but most importantly they will give you a quick sense of the structural reasons that help to understand the real story behind the headlines.

What does harsh sentencing of 4 Rio Tinto executives say about the Chinese leadership's view of China's growth prospects in coming years?

A reverse brain drain from the US to China may signify the start of a new era

he problems with the US and, because the global political economy is American-centered, the world economies have little to do with China in general, and certainly NOTHING to do with the value of China’s currency.

The trick that Lehman used to hide mounting debts and book them as revenue, called Repo 105, is EXACTLY the same as the gambit that Goldman used to help Greece fiddle its national books. Wall St is out of control.

India's public debt is about 80% of its GDP, while it owns companies worth about 45% of GDP. Selling some would help - but it may not be possible politically.

Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues is the Executive Editor of the Portuguese and Brazilian Management Review. Here he interviews Dr Caploe on China, the US, the Volcker Plan and why David moved to Singapore

Cheered by a new showing of fiscal discipline, the Sensex has reacted with delight to the 2010 Indian Union Budget. The worry is that a major opportunity to introduce a unified Goods and Services Tax (GST), that could 1.7% to GDP, has been missed.

27 February 2010 By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. The emerging drama in Greece shows how derivatives can exacerbate an already screwed-up situation - or create a crisis as in the US housing market.