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A View from China: Local Debt Threatens the Boom
Earlier this year, Chinese steel producers were ramping up for a boom in local-government infrastructure spending. The emphasis on ‘urbanization’ at last November’s National Party Congress was expected to have set the stage for large numbers of new projects to be launched throughout the country.
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How Many Bed Nets Does it Take to Contain Malaria?
For their recent universal coverage campaign, Nigeria procured and distributed 46.9 million bed nets; stretched end-to-end, they would encircle the earth 3.9 times.
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OP-ED: The United States’ Premature Pivot to “Asia”
The Obama administration has shifted its focus of strategic concerns from the Middle East to the Far East. The shift reminds one of the old parable about a child who was looking for his lost dime next to the lamp post, not because it was there that the dime went missing—but because it was there that the light made searching easy.
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OP-ED: Terror by “lone wolves” adds new danger, as Boston proves
While still unknown, an increasing wealth of evidence and intelligence information is indicating the two Russian-Chechen immigrant brothers alleged to have bombed the Boston Marathon are from that hard to track group of terrorists known as “lone wolves,” who lack an affiliation with larger terror group or operation.
