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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Economics</title>
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		<title>China Rises in Science</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/30/china-rises-in-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post covered China&#8217;s rising scientific prowess today, revealing both impressive gains and some weak spots.
China is steadily accumulating bragging points:

China has the world&#8217;s second-fastest supercomputer.
China has gone from 14th place in 1995 in publications in scientific and technical journals to 2nd now, behind the US.
A Chinese institute made the largest-ever purchase of high-tech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce Sterling&#8217;s State of the World</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/07/bruce-sterlings-state-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/07/bruce-sterlings-state-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Bruce Sterling offered his &#8220;State of the World 2010&#8221; on The Well this week.  A few excerpts follow.
As a result of &#8220;an emergent, market-driven global financial system that was all about a faith-based market fundamentalism,&#8221; he says, 
we&#8217;ve ended up with our current &#8220;It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life&#8221; Pottersville, where Rupert Murdoch plays our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World in 2010: Economic Forecasts</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/world-in-2010-economic-forecasts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/world-in-2010-economic-forecasts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the Economist&#8217;s World in 2010 conference this week.  The economic outlook was cautiously positive.
Carmen Reinhart, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics, University of Maryland:

A rapid V-shaped recovery is unlikely, as the conditions are not in place.
The revenue hit inflicted by the recession will accelerate the arrival of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paths for China</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/19/paths-for-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/19/paths-for-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zachary Karabell, author of Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World’s Prosperity Depends on It, spoke at New America Foundation this afternoon.
In discussing the deep mutual dependence of the US and Chinese economies, he suggested that two pathways are likely: 

China and the US might be like future EU members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Moves Up the Rankings, Japan Down</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/02/china-moves-up-the-rankings-japan-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/02/china-moves-up-the-rankings-japan-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China is about to become the world&#8217;s second-largest economy, supplanting Japan, the New York Times reports.
This &#8220;will bring an end to a global economic order that has prevailed for 40 years, with ramifications across arenas from trade and diplomacy to, potentially, military power,&#8221; the Times notes.
China is already the second-largest economy measured by purchasing power, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Rising?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/29/china-rising/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/29/china-rising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At New America Foundation today, Minxin Pei and Andres Martinez pursued the question of whether Asia is really on the rise.  Pei was nominally the skeptic, while Martinez was cast as the proponent of the idea, though opinions were not that stark.
International system
Pei suggested that there will not be an &#8220;Asian century&#8221; in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia shrinks</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/12/asia-shrinks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/12/asia-shrinks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ChangeWaves last week noted that the landscape of the world economy has changed overnight.
With a recalculation by the World Bank, China&#8217;s and India&#8217;s economies are now much smaller, at least as measured by purchasing power.
This is how things used to look (click on the graphic to activate):

With the recalculation, the developing Asian economies are rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging market champions</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/06/12/emerging-market-champions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/06/12/emerging-market-champions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Consulting Group has released a report on 100 emerging-market companies with global competetive potential, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Firms from China (44 companies), India (21), Brazil, and Russia constitute most of the group, with Mexico also making a good showing.

Companies like these will be the shock troops for the redistribution of global economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communists, creationists, and competitiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/24/competitiveness-ideology-and-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/24/competitiveness-ideology-and-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 02:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The June 2006 Scientific American notes the 50th anniversary of the resignation of Trofim Lysenko from his position overseeing the Soviet Union&#8217;s agricultural science.
Lysenko famously set back Soviet science by rejecting Mendelian genetics &#8212; the science of genetics &#8212; in favor of the idea that organisms could acquire characteristics during their lifetimes, as the latter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New global e-readiness rankings</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/27/new-global-e-readiness-rankings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/27/new-global-e-readiness-rankings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist Intelligence Unit released its 2006 e-readiness rankings yesterday. The index is a measure of a country&#8217;s readiness for e-business, judged by Internet access, broadband penetration, innovation, information security, and other factors. More telling than the ranking is the country&#8217;s distance from a score of 10.
The ratings are a good indicator of general abilities [...]]]></description>
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