Stories: Economy & Business
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Worldview: A chance to talk to Chinese
SHANGHAI, China - The mammoth World Expo 2010, which just opened here, offers a terrific opportunity for U.S. public diplomacy - reaching out to millions of Chinese via our ...
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China has begun coming to terms with the environmental cost of industrial boom
Plain Dealer Chief Editorial Writer Joe Frolik has just returned from a Gatekeeper Editors trip to China, organized by the International Reporting Project, an independent journalism ...
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Worldview: Viewing ‘the other China,’ beyond the economic boom
BEIJING - With all the media focus on "Rising China," another side of China gets far less attention. Call it "the other China," the bulk of the country's population that hasn't ...
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Peru’s Mineral Wealth and Woes
Introduction LIMA, PERU -- The commodities boom of the last decade fueled growth, but it also poses social and environmental problems. Peru is emblematic of the economic promise ...
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Kurt Holle’s ecolodge employs locals while slowing the devastation of the Amazon
Kurt Holle opened the Posada Amazonas ecolodge in 1996 and will turn over all operations to locals in 2016. photo: Matthew Clark/The Christian ...
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Peru farmers drop cocaine in favor of cocoa
Pinto Recodo, Peru — Deep in a valley where Peru's snow-capped Andes melt into Amazon jungle, Wilder Diaz Angulo cuts open a football-sized cocoa pod and separates precious brown ...
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Latin America’s surprise rising economic star: Peru
Lima, Peru - Often overlooked as a player in the global economy, Peru is determined to prove that it’s more than just llamas, bowler hats, and Macchu Picchu. And these days, the ...
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Africa Land Rush: IRP Fellow’s Story in BusinessWeek.
Farmland in developing countries has become an unlikely object of investor fascination. Goldman Sachs (GS), and Morgan Stanley (MS) are each raising hundreds of millions of dollars ...
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Turkey Prime Minister Erdogan on Turkey’s dependence on Russian energy
2008 Gatekeepers Interview Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoganShayla Harris, a video journalist with The New York Times, has produced new video stories on Turkey that examine ...
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Microfinance group helps Kenyans build a new life
On the second night in her new house here, Jane Ngoiri told one of her children to get something out of the kitchen. Then she started laughing. "I told them, 'It is us talking ...
