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Wikiprogress ProgBlog: October 2014
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Monday, 6 October 2014. What's new in this year's Global AgeWatch Index? This post by the Jane Scobie, Director of Communication and Advocacy at Help Age International provides an overview of the 2014 Global AgeWatch Index. This blog is part of the Wikiprogress series on ‘Engaging Citizens with Well-being Statistics’. What happens to people when they get to 60? New questions and insights. What makes China and Bangladesh rank higher than India? How do people fare in the lowest ranked countries -. Two new ...
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China in Africa: The Real Story: How Many Africans are Studying in China?
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010. How Many Africans are Studying in China? In recent years, I've been pleased to see a lot of African students attending conferences and workshops on China-Africa topics in Beijing and Shanghai. Now I think that the turnout has actually been quite low, if a report by Antoaneta Becker. That 12,000 African students were currently studying in China under government scholarship, with perhaps 8000 more studying under their own funding. Here are the official numbers. Do the math.
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China in Africa: The Real Story: 新年快乐 Happy Chinese New Year!
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015. 新年快乐 Happy Chinese New Year! Chinese New Year in Johannesburg. Image © Cornell Tukiri. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Chinese in Africa: The Economist Gets Some Things Right, Some Wrong. The Economists April 20, 2011, report on China and Africa (with the catchy subtitle Africans are asking whether China is makin. Chinese-Built Angolan "Ghost Town" Wakes Up? Africa's New AU Building: How Many Chinese Workers? Eating Bitter to Taste Sweetness (guest post). China's For...
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China in Africa: The Real Story: Africa's New AU Building: How Many Chinese Workers?
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Monday, January 30, 2012. Africa's New AU Building: How Many Chinese Workers? A couple of days ago, Yoon Jung Park at Howard University forwarded a very thoughtful article. By Howard University grad Chika Ezeanya, reacting to the just-opened $200 million African Union headquarters building in Addis Ababa, a "gift" from the dragon. Her mixture of frustration and disgust at the symbolism of the African Union accepting the donation of this building was almost tangible and very nicely phrased. Said the exact...
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China in Africa: The Real Story: China and Industrial Policy in the South
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015. China and Industrial Policy in the South. The Huajian factory outside Addis Ababa [ The Economist. What I'm reading: A new paper by Daniel Poon at UNCTAD: China's Development Trajectory: a Strategic Opening for Industrial Policy in the South. UNCTAD, December 2014. This paper helps frame the work on Chinese industrial investment in Ethiopia that we are doing at SAIS-CARI. January 29, 2015 at 1:29 AM. Labor intensive factories are leaving China. Garment factories (or so call...
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China in Africa: The Real Story: African Roads: Why So Many Chinese Contractors?
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015. African Roads: Why So Many Chinese Contractors? Thika Road, Nairobi credit: theeastafrican.co.ke. Sitting in yet another airport, after yet another delayed flight, after yet another conference on China and Africa. Pondering this question: African governments routinely award road construction contracts to Chinese and other foreign companies: South African, Italian, and so on. Why is this the case? Is constructing infrastructure too hard for us Africans? March 12, 2015 at 9:05 AM.
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ShiftingWealth
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Interview des NDR mit Helmut Reisen zur Neuen Entwicklungsbank (BRICS-Bank). Helmut Reisen erörtert, ob sich die BRICS-Bank neben den etablierten multilateralen Entwicklungsbanken durchsetzen wird. Re-Measuring the World: China's Global Development Impact. Empirical evidence confronts these concerns and reveals: China is stimulating growth and reducing poverty in Africa and other poor regions. Shifting Wealth: The power of China and India. China's impact on global wages and inflation will change soon.
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ShiftingWealth
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Ist ein international anerkannter Experte zu Schwellenländern, Entwicklungsfinanzierung und Währungspolitik. Der langjährige Forschungsdirektor des OECD-Entwicklungszentrums (bis September 2012) ist Titularprofessor an der wirtschaftswissen-schaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Basel und Assoziierter Wissenschaftler am. Deutschen Institut für Entwicklungspolitik,. Bonn In Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika gut vernetzt, ist Helmut Reisen Gründungs-mitglied des OECD Emerging Markets Network (EmNet), das aus ...
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Wikiprogress ProgBlog: July 2014
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Friday, 11 July 2014. Counting Pennies: A new PISA report compares students’ financial know-how. This blog is written by Wikichild. The post presents findings from the latest PISA report. Highlighting the links between students' financial literacy levels and their socio-economic background. It is a part of the Wikiprogress. Spotlight on Education and Skills. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. At the PISA launch. On Wednesday, the OECD launched Volume VI of the PISA 2012 results. You can take the test here.
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