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A Textile Capital of China Is Hobbled by a Downturn Gone Global

March 10, 2009
The world’s largest economy that once thrived on consumption took a sudden turn to thriftiness. But a global slowdown in spending has hurt factory towns in China that once packed US closets at low prices. Thousands of workers have lost jobs and two out of every three textile and apparel factories...

Blue Collar Blues: Is Trade to Blame for Rising US Income Inequality?

Robert Z. Lawrence

Text Messages Giving Voice to Chinese

July 10, 2007
Zhao Yufen, a scientist at Xiamen University, organized a petition protesting the construction of a chemical factory and expressing concern about potential accidents, health risks and environmental damage. Local officials supported the factory, which could potentially double the city's gross...

Friends or Else

January 20, 2011
China is the world’s second largest economy, rapidly gaining ground on the US. The two nations have a nervous mutual dependence and on issue after issue confront a dilemma about whether to view the other as competitor or partner. “This mix of partnership and rivalry is a recipe for confusion,”...

Textile Quotas to End, Punishing Carolina Towns

November 2, 2004
With the global textile quota system coming to an end in early 2005, the potential winners and losers of the previous system are becoming apparent. While several big developing countries specializing in the textiles will have the largest shares of the US$495 billion textile trade regime, others –...

Runaway Globalization Without Governance

Nayan Chanda

China's Online Population Explosion

Deborah Fallows

Reviving the Ocean Economy: The Case for Action - 2015

Ove Hough-Guldberg