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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: consumption stimulus to extend into 2010

Stimulus policies spurring Chinese domestic consumption will be maintained in 2010, while high sales growth of home appliances and automobiles due to the stimulus packages will not affect consumption, analysts predict [...]
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Watch Gordon Brown’s “Wiring a web for global good” talk at TED

"We're at a unique moment in history", says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic -- and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy [...]
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Watch The McKinsey Quarterly’s “Is China Recession Proof?” panel discussion

The McKinsey Quarterly recently held a panel of leading Chinese economists who explain how the world’s fastest-growing economy keeps expanding despite the global downturn [...]
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China Needs More Intellectual Property Rights Experts

China is facing a damaging shortfall in the numbers of professionals working in the field of intellectual property rights, leading academics claim: a Forum on Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) in Higher Education heard that China will need the skills of between 55,000 and 60,000 experts in the field by 2010. The claim came from Professor Zheng Shengli, dean of the IPR School at Peking University, in his latest research on the IPR profession...
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