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...from Chinese sandstorms, the result of grassland erosion and logging that have helped turn 27% of the country into desert, travels as far as U.S. shores, obscuring visibility in national parks and raising mercury levels in fish. Although the U.S. still produces far more greenhouse gases, particularly in per capita terms, China is the world's second largest polluter. A U.N. report found that emissions from China nearly doubled from 1994 to 2002. "In the next 10 years the problem will become even more serious," predicts Zhu Tong, an environmental-science professor at Peking University, who notes that China...
...Instead, Bern has crafted bilateral deals with Brussels governing trade and commerce. But does Swiss cherry-picking pay off? While economists forecast slow growth this year of a little over 1%, unemployment is 3.7%, well below rates across all 25 E.U. states. And Switzerland 's GDP per capita trumps its near neighbors', according to the O.E.C.D. For firms operating in the country, that's a sign of "stability in the workforce," says Matt Jackson, a Washington-based international corporate location specialist with Deloitte. Foreign firms agree. Steve McCracken, CEO of Ohio-based global packaging firm O-I, last week slammed...
...West is an island with an almost unrivaled literary tradition, stretching back to Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Robert Frost, and even today it houses more Pulitzer Prize winners per capita than any city in the United States...
...Average per capita income in Iraq in 2004, up from $322 in 2003, according to a new U.N. study...
...magnitude of Russia’s post-Communist economic collapse has been greatly overstated because official Soviet statistics were quite inflated. Shleifer further argues that Russia’s woes closely resemble those of middle-income countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia, and Mexico, which all have per capita GDPs that hover around Russia’s of $8,000. Hardly exceptional, the economic problems that addle Russia—from capital flight to debt defaults—are standard fare for these middle income countries...