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Tang Weishang is embarrassed to admit that he might have made a mistake. Just over a year ago, the 27-year-old sales executive thought he could make a better living trading stocks listed on the Shanghai bourse full-time. He started investing in 2002 with $33,700, and he...
The sway of a more assertive nonprofit sector is already being felt in this election cycle. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton last month signed a pledge that commits the next President to investing $50 billion by 2013 to combat HIV. Her commitment came after the pledge's sponsor, the AIDS...
That includes the institution that means the most in the long run. Chile directs more of its public expenditure (almost a fifth) to education and gets more of its kids through primary school (more than 90%) than any other country in the region save Cuba. Investing in people--a concept...
To compete in a cutthroat global market, Woo, 57, is plowing $100 million into a new plant, investing in another in India and employing migrant workers from South Asia and China--a practice that has provoked controversy. In 2005, his Chinese workers protested over low pay. This year an article...
Can bad Africa become good Africa? Ari de Carvalho, a board member of ANIP, Angola's private-investment agency, thinks so. "Right now [the boom] benefits those who finance and carry out the projects," he admits. "But it will benefit the people in the long term." That's a minority...