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...Easing the tension depends in part on how successful the government is in curbing the excesses of the economic boom. According to recent reports by China's official news agency, NPC delegates will spend the week discussing topics like poverty alleviation, food safety and better conditions for workers. And last Saturday, Premier Wen Jiabao announced that the country would abolish taxes on farmers next year, two years ahead of schedule. "The Communist Party wants to maintain its monopoly on power," says Joseph Cheng, a political scientist at City University of Hong Kong, "But it is sophisticated and understands that...
...India discovered last year, even its poorest can vote. At the general election, the ruling coalition led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, lauded for its bold economic reforms, suffered a shocking defeat at the polls, partly because of resentment from the poor that they were missing out on the boom. Into office came a government that needed the support of the Communists, and which had promised not to forget those at the bottom of the heap...
...billion, down from 1.5 billion in 1981. While that is progress, much of the one-sixth of humanity in extreme poverty suffers the ravages of AIDS, drought, isolation and civil wars, and is thereby trapped in a vicious cycle of deprivation and death. Moreover, while the economic boom in East Asia has helped reduce the proportion of the extreme poor in that region from 58% in 1981 to 15% in 2001, and in South Asia from 52% to 31%, the situation is deeply entrenched in Africa, where almost half of the continent's population lives in extreme poverty--a proportion...
...Arrest The President”). Although it has its rough spots, A New White. is easily one of the most innovative albums of 2005 so far, in any genre. Like Dose One’s legendary (and relatively impenetrable) Circle LP with producer Boom Bip, this music takes a while to sink in, especially for Drucker neophytes, but rewards repeated listens with some of the most innovative underground music, operating at the futuristic fringes where broad labels become not only arbitrary, but totally irrelevant...
...American consumers at highly competitive prices, fueling the U.S. trade deficit. But overall, the growth of China as a market is still seen as beneficial for the Asian economy, which needs all the help it can get following December's devastating tsunami. Thanks in part to the Chinese boom, Japan, which was stagnant for much of the 1990s, is growing again. China last year overtook the U.S. to become Japan's biggest trading partner. China accounted for 20.1% of Japan's total trade, compared with 18.6% for the U.S. The panelists expect Asian cross-fertilization to continue; indeed, Sachs said...