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...Slowly but surely, Japan has reconstituted its financial sector after its Lost Decade of the 1990s, and now its firms are in a position to expand aggressively abroad. Japanese financial institutions shed some $440 billion in bad debt since the late 1990s and have been barely grazed by the subprime crisis, partly because they were reducing debt as western firms were taking on more and more. Now, the bargains available in the U.S. afford Japanese banks an opportunity to move beyond their mature home market. Japan's economy is the world's second-largest, but it is plagued by slow...
...some in India, of Beijing's growing influence over Kathmandu. Ironically, China backed the monarchy to crush the Maoists during the civil war, but Beijing - unburdened by the divisive rancor which grips India's democracy - has nimbly changed tack, expanding its already significant involvement in Nepal's hydropower sector, while promising rail links between Kathmandu and Lhasa...
Kagame gave several examples of the benefits of mobile phone technology in Rwanda, including TRACnet, a joint public-private partnership that allows decision-makers in the health-care sector to use wireless technology to respond in real time to the treatment needs of AIDS patients...
...market: Neither lower interest rates, nor greatly expanded liquidity helped thaw frozen credit markets. Even after brokered shotgun weddings like those of Merrill Lynch and Bank of America or Bear Stearns and JP Morgan Chase, what Professor Kenneth Rogoff once called the “flagship” American sector, the financial services industry, seems to have no bottom...
...suburban Seattle through his Westwood Management since 1975, is waiting to opt out of his Section 8 contract when it expires because of what he says is unfair treatment from HUD. "We sign a contract to provide housing for people who otherwise wouldn't be housed by the private sector," he says. "HUD's job is to pay us for doing it, but they are consistently late on their payments." Costs and maintenance increases, furthermore, are not being met by HUD's formula, which Chaussee says is way behind market rate. He is now involved in a lawsuit against...