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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Economics</title>
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		<title>When Does China Become #1?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/15/when-does-china-become-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/15/when-does-china-become-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post has a handy tool for calculating when China&#8217;s economy becomes the world&#8217;s largest.
The short answer is: not very long from now.

If China grows rapidly, its economy is largest by 2025 EVEN IF the US grows at an improbably fast 4%.
If China slows to 7%, and the US grows at 4%, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle East: Some Stability-Related Data</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/02/middle-east-some-stability-related-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/02/middle-east-some-stability-related-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some patterns are emerging from the Middle East unrest that began in Tunisia.
This chart combines three factors that seem relevant:

Purchasing-power income (from CIA World Factbook)
Levels of economic freedom (from Heritage Foundation)
Levels of civil liberties (from Freedom House)


Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, and Yemen are highly similar when plotted against these variables.

They all have a &#8220;5&#8243; level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mideast Turmoil: A Forecast Compilation</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/01/30/mideast-turmoil-a-forecast-compilation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/01/30/mideast-turmoil-a-forecast-compilation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forecasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a roundup of some of the fast-accumulating forecasts for Egypt and the Middle East, particularly those taking a longer view (including some of my own).
General

Threats to US interests &#8212; &#8220;Were demonstrations to spread in a big way to Jordan and Saudi Arabia, a catastrophe could be looming. A more enlightened, pro-American regime than [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/30/china-rises-in-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Competitiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biotech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>

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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Competitiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International system]]></category>

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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/12/asia-shrinks/</guid>
		<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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