China sets a quota on foreign films that can be shown in the country, 34 each year, and filmmakers jockey to win a place in the world’s second largest market for films. China is expected to surpass the United States as world’s biggest film market within a decade. “The only way to circumvent the...
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Italy has formed a new government under Premier-designate Giuseppe Conte nine days after he resigned. The new coalition of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party is less hostile to the European Union than the previous coalition that included the far-right...
Chinese companies listed on US stock exchanges have not been subjected to inspections by US regulators, and the US Senate approved legislation that would require the Chinese firms to meet US standards. “Unlike other countries, China has never given U.S. regulators routine access to audit records...
From 1959 to 1990, Lee Kuan Yew guided Singapore’s remarkable rise to an Asian economic powerhouse. The Singaporean prime minister trail-blazed the creation of an “authoritarian capitalist” model of economic development, soon followed by China. The model was built on western ideas favored by Lee...
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Analysis of huge datasets offers the potential for lifesaving health care, productive economies and workplaces, and smooth highway traffic. Yet consumers must assume that every electronic transaction could be compromised, suggests Scott Berinato for Harvard Business Review. Berinato reports on a...
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Ten years ago, a small group of men launched unprecedented terrorist attacks on icons of American power. The dramatic attack by Al Qaeda ushered in an era of seemingly unending war between organized states and shadowy groups. This YaleGlobal series examines the continuing reverberations from the 9/...
WASHINGTON: The Al Qaeda attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, what Al Qaeda calls the Manhattan raid, changed the course of global history in a morning. The decade that followed would see America engage in two costly wars abroad,...
Nine years after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the world shares a perception that suicide attacks are unusual acts committed by the poor, the psychologically impaired, the morally deficient, the uneducated or the religious fanatics. Yet analysis of more than...
Life as a weapon: In Sri Lanka, Tamil Tiger suicide bomber hits a Sinhalese procession
ADELAIDE: Nine years ago, 19 young Muslims commandeered passenger jets and killed themselves, taking with them 2973 people to the inferno of fire. Since the 9/11...
美国或许是服务经济，但它仍然是世界最大的制造商。罗格斯商学院管理和全球商业教授法罗克•康恰克特（Farok Contractor）指出，美国制造业和美国工人有很多理由仍然保持上涨势头。美国公司投资高科技设备，美国工人每小时为产品增添的价值位居榜首。最近的经济困难也帮助刺激了制造业的复苏：工资下降使得美国有能力与劳动力成本低的中国竞争，焦虑的美国人工作时间延长，能源价格提高和自然灾害的频繁出现，都促使跨国公司将工厂安置到更接近美国市场的地方。康恰克特还指出了可能阻碍复苏的因素：美国学生对科技缺乏兴趣。因为美国工人的流动性大，美国制造商不愿意提供新技术培训的见习期。...
新泽西纽瓦克市：按照经济政策研究所（Economic Policy Institute）最近的一份研究，自2001年以来，因为与中国的贸易赤字，美国已经丧失了280万的就业岗位，其中70%在制造业领域。实际上，到沃尔玛或者梅西百货公司购物的消费者已经很难找到美国生产的商品了。
制造业在美国GDP中的比重现在确实只有12%到15%，从根本上说， 美国是服务经济。但是，美国仍然是世界最大的制造商，如果从每个工人每小时工作的附加值来看，其生产率仍然天下无敌（见表-1）。美国制造业的工资平均是...
