China
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The Great Cities of 2025
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The cities of the developing world are taking off. The cities of the Global North ought to get on board, or risk being left behind.
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Hangzhou: Urban Development and China’s Transitional Economy
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The “Geneva of the Orient” provides a case-study of economic development in China.
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China’s Thirst for Energy
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China’s insatiable thirst for energy means climate change is inevitable.
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Gas’s Golden Age: The World Energy Outlook
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The future of natural gas is bright. Switching to gas, though, is no panacea.
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The View of the Eurozone Crisis From China
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A Chinese economist says that his nation is more vulnerable to a Eurozone collapse than the U.S. is.
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More Palatable and Less Effective
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GDP-linked carbon intensity targets lure wary parties to the climate negotiating table. But are these targets any more than a tease?
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Income Inequality Despite Economic Growth
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Emerging economies are facing the same type of income inequality that recent protests have highlighted in developed countries.
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It’s Not Too Late for the MDGs
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Opinions vary within the policy community about whether developing nations are disappointingly off-track to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the 2015 deadline set by the United Nations.
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iFlating the U.S. Trade Deficit with China
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While designed and marketed in Cupertino, California, the iPhone is estimated to have contributed $1.9 billion to the U.S. trade deficit with China in 2009. This is the finding of Yuqing Xing and Neal Detert, two economists with the Asian Development Bank Institute.