China’s poor left behind

The rise of Sars virus in China and its spread throughout the world has brought new attention to the negative consequences of creating a global village. In this opinion piece the author questions the value of China’s success in market transition. He says the negative economic effects of Sars in Asia, and its direct human costs, “should make us question the wisdom of our rapidly expanding global interdependence, as well as development models overly reliant on markets to provide needed social goods for the majority of the world's peoples.”--YaleGlobal