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Growing Capacity, Inc.: World Investment Report focuses on global value chains
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Thursday, June 27, 2013. World Investment Report focuses on global value chains. UNCTAD has just ( on June 26, 2013) published its annual World Investment Report. This year on the subject Global Value Chains: Investment and Trade for Development. Below I cite text selectively from the Key Messages section at the beginning of the report, interspersed with my own commentary from the point of view of Growing Capacity, Inc. ( in bold. Continuing a steady upward trend. What was the impact of FDI on GDP growth?
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Decline of bees forces China's apple farmers to pollinate by hand
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China and the world discuss the environment. Sign up for our newsletter. Decline of bees forces China's apple farmers to pollinate by hand. The decline of wild bees in China threatens more than just its apple and pear harvests, says pollination expert Dave Goulson. In the last 50 years, the global human population has nearly doubled, while the average calories consumed per person has increased by about 30%. S weekly newsletter includes the latest updates on Chinas environmental crisis. Globally, about 75...
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Growing Capacity, Inc.: What do you think?
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Saturday, April 5, 2014. What do you think? There are plenty of (my) opinions in the posts below. But what are your ideas on global development? Look through historical and recent posts and see if you agree with what I have said there. You can respond by appending a brief comment to the post. You are also welcome to send me a think piece - a paragraph or a page - for me to publish on the blog. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What do you think? Indonesia's GDP and FDI success story. Multilateral Frame...
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Cleantech's dirty fight: how the US and China are restricting green trade | chinadialogue
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China and the world discuss the environment. Sign up for our newsletter. As trade tensions escalate between America and China, reckless policies on clean technology are stoking the flames – at everyone’s expense, writes Yuhan Zhang. The United States and China have cooperated with each other on clean technology for years. China is “beating” it in the clean revolution, and will profit handsomely. Despite a steep trade imbalance with China, the United States imposes significant restrictions on exports of h...
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中外对话 主题 > 安全 | China Dialogue Topics > Security
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China and the world discuss the environment. Sign up for our newsletter. Four killed as Bangladesh villagers oppose coal-fired power plant. Villagers demonstrating against a new Chinese-built coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh have been shot by police, writes Pinaki Roy. OPINION: World benefits if China and IEA can work together. China should become a full participant in the work of the International Energy Agency, says the organisation's new head Fatih Birol. Timeline: China’s chemical disasters.
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China faces long battle to clean up its polluted soil | China Dialogue
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China and the world discuss the environment. Sign up for our newsletter. China faces long battle to clean up its polluted soil. Low-quality technology, lack of funding and unclear evaluation standards mean that cleaning up China's toxic soils will be an ongoing struggle. The severity and extent of heavy metal pollution in China means that that expensive clean-up techniques are unlikely to be widely applied. Image by Li Feng. With the support of the. Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Luo Jinzhi has col...
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A new approach to boosting forests in China | China Dialogue
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China and the world discuss the environment. Sign up for our newsletter. A new approach to boosting forests in China. Could a project to restore tree diversity in the Miyun Reservoir basin offer an alternative to China's failing monoculture forests? Landowners in the Miyun basin will be trained to plant, care for and monitor trees (Image by 老信天翁. However, these gains have been tempered by a focus on quantity over quality. Most of the restoration in China has occurred through the establishment of mono...
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My top climate science reads
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China and the world discuss the environment. Sign up for our newsletter. My top climate science reads. Leading climate scientist Richard Betts recommends five key publications to understanding climate change. Richard Betts is a climate scientist at the. Met Office Hadley Centre. And the University of Exeter. He leads a research team examining the impacts of climate change and was a. For the fourth and fifth assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He shared with. This was anot...
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Growing Capacity, Inc.: Five dangers the internet poses to a sustainable world
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Thursday, August 15, 2013. Five dangers the internet poses to a sustainable world. It's time to slay the sacred cow that the internet is a force only for good. This article was published in The Guardian on Friday August 9th, 2013. It represents the opinion of the author and is published on the Growing Capacity Blog unchanged by permission of the author.]. In recent months the world has been consumed by the tit for tat internet spying allegations between the US and China. There are four dangers, besides s...
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