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...Inamdar, chief investment officer at SRM Realty Advisors in New Delhi. China, where construction of commercial and residential projects has been especially rampant, may be facing "an imminent bust of a real estate bubble," Merrill Lynch warned in a September report. A recent survey of households by China's central bank found only 13% were planning to buy property, the lowest figure since the survey started in 1999. In the wealthy industrial city of Shenzhen, reports suggest property prices may have fallen 30% from recent highs...
...banquet of financial products to the country's rising middle class, whose members began tapping credit cards, consumer loans and installment plans to buy automobiles, washing machines, vacations - all those trappings of upward mobility that the few who could afford them once proudly purchased with cash. The country's central bank estimates that the amount of personal loans held by Indians nearly doubled from 2005 to 2007, to $106 billion; the country's credit-card industry has been growing at an average annual rate of nearly 30%. "There was an environment that was building up irrational exuberance," says Alam Srinivas...
...There's no question that the public was paying attention. In central Beijing, throngs of onlookers blocked traffic as they gathered to watch the spacewalk on giant outdoor TV screens. Decades from now, a generation of Chinese probably will not remember how many gold medals their country won. They may well recall when Zhai floated 213 miles above Earth...
...Maternal Deaths Thanks to Vivienne Walt for the thought-provoking article on maternal mortality in Freetown and the whole developing world [Sept. 29]. This issue is a priority for our people, and we will be committed to staying the course until we see results. But governments definitely have a central role. Keep up the good work! Rashid Abdulai, Freetown, Sierra Leone...
Thanks to Vivienne Walt for the thought-provoking article on maternal mortality in Freetown and the whole developing world [Sept. 29]. This issue is a priority for our people, and we will be committed to staying the course until we see results. But governments definitely have a central role. Keep up the good work! Rashid Abdulai, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE...