An empty chair at Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, International Human Rights Day
Today is a stark reminder that China still has a long way to go when it comes to human rights. It is International Human Rights Day and also the day for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize. For the first...
View ArticleChina: Philanthropy on the rise but human rights on the decline?
Two stories out of China: Bill Gates lauds the Chinese for becoming more philanthropic, though many might say they could hardly have become less so. In Xinhua, Gates says: Many people he met in China...
View ArticleLocal Tibetans call for more attention to conflict with China
To mark the start of the Tibetan New Year, Losar, some of Seattle’s Tibetan community demonstrated downtown against China with colorful flags, angry chants and coffins. “The situation in Tibet right...
View ArticleBrazil, China and other “emerging” nations want to take the lead on aid and...
The group of nations known (by wonks anyway) as BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — are fast moving away from being recipients of foreign assistance and toward taking a more active...
View ArticleDambisa Moyo on Daily Show, on why China is better overseas than US
The economist Dambisa Moyo promotes her new book, Winner Take All, on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Those who would expect Stewart to challenge Moyo’s somewhat simplistic and rose-colored...
View ArticleSinking BRICS? How the emerging nations may, or may not, tip the global balance
A meeting of the major middle-income countries in South Africa garnered plenty of attention, but produced little in terms of actual policies. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS)...
View ArticleMedia eagerly covers bird flu outbreak in China
I don't mean to make light of the possibility that a handful of human deaths in China apparently caused by a new strain of bird flu could produce a global flu pandemic. But there is a tendency in the...
View ArticleChina’s Colonizing Africa? Not so Much
When people take a break from debating whether Africa is or is not rising, they like to talk about China. The emerging economic powerhouse is making its mark on Sub Saharan Africa by support port...
View ArticleAttempting to put more ‘Green’ into the heart of development
Developing countries need long term economic growth to continue toward a path toward prosperity. The aid buzzword sustainability is often used to describe maintaining progress, but the Organization for...
View ArticleScientists identify China’s mysteriously massive cancer burden
A new study of health trends in China finds, perhaps unsurprisingly, that rapid economic development over the past few decades has been accompanied by a decline in 'diseases of poverty' like malaria...
View ArticleChina’s Great Leap towards Rapid Urbanization
Here’s the plan. China wants to move 250,000,000 people out of its rural areas and into cities within the next 15 years. There are 316 million people in the United States. China’s plan is to move...
View ArticleEmerging markets turn into a pumpkin for investors
WSJ When the global economy took a massive hit in late 2008 it was the emerging markets, countries like India, China and Brazil, that picked up the slack for the older Western powers. These countries...
View ArticleIs the US now a legitimate player in Africa?
President Obama wrapped up his tour of sub-Saharan Africa. His $7 billion initiative to increase electricity access in the region called Power Africa was the biggest news from the visit. Some saw the...
View ArticleSplash founder explains why he wants to kill off his charity
Eric Stowe wants to kill off his charity. The founder of Splash, a Seattle-based organization that brings clean water to communities, defines the success of his work as reaching a point where everyone...
View ArticleBRICS rapid growth slowing down, may have been unique
The main feature of the new issue of The Economist is on the emerging economies. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa make up the group better known as the BRICS. In the wake of the 2008...
View ArticleVisualizing tobacco’s impact on children in China
Guest post by Katie Leach-Kemon, a policy translation specialist from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. January 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the US...
View ArticleUS financial policy to cause short term problems for emerging economies
The recovery of the United States is not great news for emerging economies. The tide of investments that increased over the past few years is heading back out. The news is great for people living in...
View ArticleWhy Congo prefers Chinese investment over Western aid
The Chinese are gaining ground in Africa while Western powers, and corporations, struggle to catch up. Last week, China’s official news service reported on the success of a joint effort of the Chinese...
View ArticleWhy is the Gates Foundation still in China?
The China office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of its biggest – second only, in size and staffing, to that of the philanthropy’s India office. China and India GDP Yet China,...
View ArticleAfrica’s environmental troublemakers: who emits the most carbon?
Alright, this one should not have been that hard. South Africa is far and away the leader in carbon dioxide emissions for the continent of Africa. Its 499,016 Kilotons is more than double than than of...
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