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When Jobs Move Overseas (to South Carolina)

October 26, 2003
Why would a Chinese refrigerator company move to America, where wages are ten times higher than at home? Prestige, argues Yilu Zhao, and political benefits back home. The Chinese government is pushing to put 50 of its companies on the Fortune Global 500 list and sees foreign investment and a...

软件将吃掉整个世界？

September 27, 2011
目前全球经济的增长点在何处？许多经济学家在经济危机之后苦苦思索的一个问题是，在我们经历一个信息技术革命所带来的新一波经济增长热潮之后，我们还能靠什么来推动我们经济的进一步发展？我们将要靠一场什么领域、什么形式的革命，来推动我们的经济出现跳跃式的增长？风险投资公司Andreessen-Horowitz的联合创始人和普通合伙人Marc Andreessen对此的答案是，未来的经济增长点，可能要从软件业和工业的软件化上面去寻找。他举出了相当多的例子来佐证自己的观点，比如，博德斯(Borders)连锁书店的关闭和亚马逊的崛起；康卡斯特(Comcast)和时代华纳(Time Warner) 推出“...

On a Russian Site, Cheap Songs With a Backbeat of Illegality

June 4, 2006
AllofMP3.com owes its global success to low prices and a large collection of music that is normally not available for sale online. However, despite its allure, Allofmp3.com may be illegal. Record companies complain and try to stop the site, but with little luck in a country where digital piracy...

Globalization’s Unequal Discontents

January 23, 2007
Sometimes globalization is a mechanism that levels playing fields and sometimes it is a bulldozer. Throughout history, globalization has often enriched business owners and risk-takers, while doing little for ordinary workers. In recent years, the modern workforce has gradually included more...

Financial Crisis Belies Myth of US Independence

October 30, 2008
Countries make the mistake of assuming that they can pick their way through globalization – that they can block products from other countries yet sell in those markets, or set rules for others to follow while intending to ignore those same rules at home. No community or country, as economic units,...

Surprising But True, US Exports Are Growing

Edward Gresser
December 7, 2010

As Some Young Muslims Turn to Radicalism, Concern Grows

August 10, 2010
Muslim parents in Germany are increasingly alarmed over online recruitment efforts by extremists with German-language videos. German security officials estimate that, since the 1990s, fewer than 200 young Germans have traveled to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region to join groups affiliated with...

Editorial: Window of hope opens for Iraq

December 15, 2003
Saddam Hussein's capture by US forces has taken the world by storm. For Iraqi politics, says this editorial in the United Arab Emirates' Gulf News, the news could not be better. The paper encourages Iraqis to take control of their own political futures and "build a new political...
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