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16 February 2011. In 1998 Chinese academia produced 830,000 grads / year. Last May, it was more than six million & rising. Despite robust growth, economy doesn't generate enough good professional jobs to absorb highly educated young adults..

15 February 2011. At EconomyWatch, we consider micro-credit a key issue in one of our main concerns: the impact of world political economy on ordinary people's lives. We have looked at the situation from the perspective of ...

Every spring, in Serengeti National Park, two million wildebeasts, zebras and gazelles march north in search of food: the Great Migration, is one of most spectacular assemblies of animal life on earth...

Region critical 2 energy future EU, China, India Current Game far from over, China seems best bet: not suspected of religious agitation, like Shiite Iran, or playing mil & pol games, like US, Russia. Wants only to engage in trade, secure resources

Foreign direct investment reflects a country’s economic muscle. The UK owned 45 percent of world FDI in 1914; US share peaked at 50 percent in 1967. Today China, including Hong Kong and Macau, has just 6 percent...

9 February 2011. Ten years after dot-com bust taught Wall Street and Silicon Valley investors that what goes up doesn't go up forever, a growing number of entrepreneurs and a few venture capitalists are starting to wonder if hi-tech start-ups..

Central Asia is an eternal hot spot of world history. 19th century Britain & Russia engaged there in the "Great Game," a bitter struggle over natural resources & strategic bases. Today's board involves 5 ex-Soviet Republics: Kyrgyzstan; Kazakhstan...

7 Feb 2011. As the issue of "dignity" becomes more pronounced in the struggle now under way in Egypt, consider Niodior: an African village that exists simultaneously in Senegal, where families endure heart-rending poverty; and southern Spain...

Supposed guardians of world financial integrity now making 3 current difficult situations worse: decades-long stagnation in Japan; financially desperate US states; rampant socio-economic inequality fueling people power movement sweeping Arab world

Supposed guardians of financial world's integrity now making 3 currently hard situations worse: decades-long Japan stagnation; financially desperate US states; rampant socio-economic inequality fueling people power movement throughout Arab world