Word: accessibility
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...products to joint-venture partners they were forced into bed with. They have funded schools, orphanages, disaster reconstruction, overseas scholarships and all manner of poverty-alleviation programs. But now that the China market matters more to them, it appears that China couldn't care less. Increasingly difficult China-market access is the immediate worry. But many are looking ahead and losing sleep over expectations that their onetime partners are morphing into predators - and that their own technology and know-how will be coming back at them globally in the form of cut-price products from subsidized state-owned behemoths...
...generally pretty happy, but the Party leadership is terrified of their outsized expectations. People under age 40, the progeny of the one-child policy, didn't live through Maoist poverty and upheaval. They are pampered, impatient and demanding. They consider exponential growth as a basic benchmark of life, and access to information to be a civil right. China's rich are powerful opponents of further reform and opening. They made money the local way and are determined to block foreign competition so this can continue...
...sickbed in Saudi Arabia was "insulting to the people. We are being taken for a ride and it must stop." Those who continue to support the President are merely those with something to lose should he step down, says Lai Mohammed. "There are some people today who have access to power and they are afraid that if the power moves to Jonathan, they will lose that access." Nigerians, he says, "treat power as a mistress, and something we would not want to share with anybody, not even a friend...
...example, there is the Human Development Index (HDI), used by the UN's Development Programme, which considers life expectancy and literacy as well as standard of living as determined by GDP. And the Genuine Progress Indicator, which incorporates aspects of social welfare such as income equity, pollution, and access to health care. In the international community, perhaps the biggest nudge has come from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who commissioned a report by marquee-name economists, including Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, to find alternatives to what he calls "GDP fetishism". (See the best business deals...
...central component of the bill is the individual mandate on everyone to buy healthcare insurance. This poses an immediate and steep cost for young people who do not have access to steady income or employer benefits. Harvard’s Student Health Plan, which is required for all students, even those with family health plans, was a product of the current Massachusetts healthcare bill that includes a personal mandate,. Students now incur a minimum of an additional $1000 per year cost added on the term bill, and roughly triple that for those who subscribe to Harvard’s Blue...