A Revisionist Tale: Why a Poor China Seems Richer
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New calculations by the World Bank suggest China may not be so rich after all, and could deflate arguments for a need to revalue the yuan.
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Unearthing values in the post-bubble wreckage.
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How the truth of the past emerges in China is a subject of great importance and invisible struggle.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: Never have so many of us appeared so well-off yet felt so poor - and we used to believe obscene wealth was victimless.
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A two-tiered property system favors city dwellers while handicapping the farmers once at the core of Chinese society.
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By Stacey Burling, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 5--The rich really are getting richer in Pennsylvania.   And, according to a new report on wages, everybody else is getting poorer.
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Few cities have created wealth faster than Shenzhen, China, but the costs of its phenomenal success stare out from every corner.
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During long years of war and severe poverty in Vietnam, milk and meat were true luxuries only the rich could afford. Many children went blind from lack of vitamin A. Countless others experienced stunted growth that has kept the whole population short and thin. But after 30 years of peace, the communist country has overcome many of these problems and is now boasting unprecedented economic growth that it hopes will translate into building a taller, stronger people.
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An embezzlement scandal is barely standing out in China, where cases of bank corruption involving hundreds of millions of dollars seem to pop up regularly.
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Poverty can be quite educational. When you've got only so much money to spend, you'll think carefully about the goods you're buying.
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PUYANG, China  - It's in poor places like Puyang that the ruling Communist party's battle to narrow China's yawning wealth gap will be won or lost.
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Across the developing world, migrants move to other poor countries nearly as often as they move to rich ones.
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China's growing material wealth has eluded the countryside, but there is a bull market in sects competing for the souls of the rural poor.
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 3--BEIJING -- In the office after hours, the Chinese economic miracle didn't feel much like magic.   Spent cups of instant noodles lay in the trash can. Cubicles were empty for the night.
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Robert Ayres, a scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, argues that the period of gaining economies of scale from international trade has âprobably peakedâ.
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Forget GDP. A better metric for prosperity is Gross National Happiness. By Daniel H. Pink from Wired magazine.
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A Nobel Prize-winning economist said on Saturday that it is wrong to force China to appreciate theyuan, also known as the renminbi, and it is understandable that the renminbi remains unconvertible at the ...