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...less than $30 million provide more than eight out of every 10 jobs in urban China and account for three-quarters of the country's total industrial output. "Small businesses are simply the most important component of China's economy," says Eric Siew of the International Finance Corp. (IFC), the commercial lending arm of the World Bank. The IFC also runs training programs for Chinese bankers...
...from many of the resources that grease the wheels of commerce. Like their counterparts everywhere, China's grassroots entrepreneurs gripe about taxes and bureaucratic obstacles. Their biggest complaint, however, is their inability to get bank loans. In a recent survey of 600 private companies in Sichuan by the IFC, access to financing was cited as the No. 1 problem, far ahead of unfair competition and corruption...
...appropriate that blaxploitation's theatrical tribute came this summer from a pair of popcorn movies: Undercover Brother and Austin Powers in Goldmember (with the foil fatale, Foxxy Cleopatra, played by Beyonce Knowles). But now director Isaac Julien aims to put blaxploitation into the canon with the documentary BaadAsssss Cinema (IFC, Aug. 14, 10 p.m. E.T.), which unashamedly argues that those movies had artistic merit and political force...
...appropriate that blaxploitation's theatrical tribute came this summer from a pair of popcorn movies: Undercover Brother and Austin Powers in Goldmember (with the foil fatale, Foxxy Cleopatra, played by Beyonce Knowles). But now director Isaac Julien aims to put blaxploitation into the canon with the documentary BaadAsssss Cinema (IFC, Aug. 14, 10 p.m. E.T.), which unashamedly argues that those movies had artistic merit and political force...
...IFC suspension prohibits a fraternity from rushing first-years, IFC Judicial Committee Chair Patrick Kremer said...