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As the Chinese government seeks to reduce pollution while increasing energy production, the China gas industry is gaining increasing importance. Gas production reached 76.1 billion cubic metres (bcm) in 2008, and with an increasing number of gas reserves in the...

  The jobs market in China has been surging since 1978, when the communist regime opened its doors to foreign investment. The continuous arrival of foreign capital boosted the Chinese economy, making it the fastest growing economy in the world....

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China’s employment stood at 774.80 million persons at the end of 2008. Around 306.54 million were employed in the primary industry, accounting for 39.6% of the workforce. The secondary industry employed 211.09 million...

Among the most encouraging recent developments in India China Economy and India-China ties is the rapid increase in bilateral trade. A few years ago, India Inc had a fear of being swamped by Chinese imports. Today, India enjoys a positive...

  Think about vast population and China is the first country that comes to mind. It is also the world’s most populous country but has achieved tremendous success in controlling China population growth. In mid 2008, the country’s population stood...

Enormous expansion has triggered remarkable progress in the China oil industry. This progress has spanned five decades. In the 1940s, Chinese oil production was a mere 90,000 tons. By 2001, it had ballooned to a staggering figure of 160 million...

According to the recent statistics, the world GDP (comprising 180 economies) has reached at a sum of US $ 46,747 Billions. Top 15 contributors to the world GDP are USA, Japan, Germany, China, UK, France, Italy, Canada, Spain, Brazil, Russia,...

Fiji trade adviceLatest Fiji export, import and trade news have confirmed that Fiji exporters are now being egged on to adopt a more aggressive stance as far as promotion and export of their products in international markets is concerned. Need...

Fiji economy, has in the recent times declined by 3.9 per cent. But still it is expected to recover and expand by 2.2% in 2008. Economic growth is expected to be wide-ranging across most sectors leaving out finance, insurance, real...

Economic growth is measured by certain parameters. These parameters include expenditure on food, housing, power, fuel, and transport and communications. Investments in education and medical facilities are important indicators of economic development. Economic growth is also dependent on population size,...

The Emerging Markets was a term coined by World Bank economist Antoine W. van Agtmael in 1981 in reference to nations undergoing rapid economic growth and industrialization. The term is often used interchangeably with 'emerging and developing economies'. The Emerging...

The World Bank has classified the economies of the world on the basis of income.The groups made are as follows: Lower Income Economies Lower Middle Income Economies Upper Middle Income Economies High Income Economies   The World Bank has classified...

The simple meaning of an "Economy" is that a system which provides living to the peoples. In the congruous manner we mean the world economy, which provides lives to more than six billions of peoples in the world. The GDP...

The term global economic trends mean the way most of the world economy is behaving in a recent period of time within a set of well defined parameters. Global economy or the world economy is largely centred around a few...

The term Global Economy refers to an integrated world economy with unrestricted and free movement of goods, services and labour transnationally. It projects the picture of an increasingly inter-connected world with free movement of capital across countries, also. The concept...