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...region's population stands at roughly 1.1 million, nearly 90% of its pre-Katrina level. But many of the people who've returned to the city have found neighborhoods without restaurants or supermarkets. In the case of New Orleans East, once the hub of the city's black middle class, the main library remains closed, as does the hospital...
...Main Street. Perhaps we should take to the high seas instead. There may be no better measure of the reach, depth and potential duration of the global economic slowdown than the fast-sinking fortunes of the shipping industry. From the historic docks of Rotterdam to China's booming trading hub of Ningbo, troubling symptoms abound. The Baltic Dry Index, which tracks the cost of shipping raw materials, has plummeted from an all-time high of 11,793 last May to below 800, a 22-year low. The daily rental rate for the largest bulk carriers plunged from $234,000 last...
...earn fortunes. Transparency International's latest corruption index places Guinea 173 out of 180 countries. Guineans have to bribe officials in order to receive water, electricity, and basic health care, the group said. With policing and the court system in a shambles, Guinea has also become a major hub for Latin American cocaine traffickers, who increasingly use West Africa as the conduit to the lucrative cocaine market in nearby Europe. When TIME visited neighboring Guinea Bissau in 2007, several Colombian cocaine traffickers were operating there, but those traffickers have since moved to Conakry, and several Colombians have recently been found...
...foreign government buildings in the autonomous northern regions of Puntland and Somaliland); a departure point for hundreds of thousands of refugees (a refugee camp over the border in Kenya is now the biggest in the world); a center for human trafficking to the Middle East; and a hub of the illegal arms and drugs trade...
...Factory closures in the manufacturing regions of southern China are now a daily event, and local governments have stepped in to pay the wages of some workers left jobless after bosses have fled. Courts in the Guangdong province toy hub of Dongguan are reportedly working without days off to handle the crush of bankruptcies and unpaid wage cases. Demonstrations by terminated workers have spread fears of economic related social unrest, a key concern for the central government...