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25 October 2010. South Tyrol, a German- and Italian-speaking region of mountains and valleys, rivals Italy's most productive regions, highly industrialized Lombardy, and the Valle d'Aosta, in GDP per capita. It is so prosperous that it can pay its governor...

  19 October 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com This site has frequently stressed India’s potential to become one of the key players of the 21st century, not just in Asia, but the entire global political economy....

 19 October 2010. In Asia, it's a truism that, as Chairman Mao put it, "the wind comes from the East", at least as far as the world economy is concerned. But what was so shocking about the most recent IMF meeting...

7 October 2010. Companies in China’s industrial heartland are toiling to reinvent their businesses, fearing that the low-cost manufacturing that helped propel the nation’s economic ascent is fast becoming obsolete. The TAL Group, which operates an immense garment-making plant in...

5 October 2010. As the run-up to the Commonwealth Games made painfully clear, India's strength does NOT seem to be in engineering and construction. Despite this nation’s rise as a technology titan with some of the world’s best engineering minds, India’s...

 28 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com At this point, only a fool would predict when the latest conflict between China and Japan is going to be over. Most everyone thought it would be finished last...

 27 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com From a strictly economic point of view, the structural change in the world economy is summed up by the term for the most “advanced” “emerging” nations, BRIC: Brazil /...

  21 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com Of the many elements that have gone into China’s stunning – and stunningly fast – economic growth, there is little doubt that the population-limiting “one child policy” has...

 15 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com Even before coming aboard here at EconomyWatch, we have long argued that one of the major aspects of the American crisis was the intellectual emptiness of those vaunted centers...

 13 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com The tiny West African nation of Benin has been a rare success story in a continent not full of them. It has long taken pride in its domestication of...

7 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com As we noted last week, there are several intriguing aspects to Germany’s current economic growth, which is not fantastic in absolute terms – 2.2% in the second quarter –...

  2 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com In most countries, the traditional “workers’ holiday” is May 1, usually known as May Day. In the eternal spirit of US “exceptionalism”, however, Labor Day is a three-day...

  31 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com One of the most striking developments of the Eurozone crisis has been the emergence of what might be called a “tough” Germany. As readers of this site know,...

25 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com One of our constant themes here at EconomyWatch is the importance of co-operation, both in general, and between emerging economic powers like, say, China and India. We believe this...

 23 August 2010. After years of being known for inefficiency, corruption and instability, Indonesia is emerging from the global financial crisis with a surprising new reputation — economic golden child. The country’s economy, the largest in Southeast Asia, grew at...