Tag: Japan

Economic Development Links

Apr 8, 2014

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1. You Decide: Save the People or Save the Planet #StopTheMyth 2. New York Times: The End of the ‘Developing World’ BILL GATES, in his foundation’s annual letter, declared that “the terms ‘developing countries’ and ‘developed countries’ have outlived their usefulness.” He’s right. If we want to understand the modern global economy, we need a…
Demography Links

Apr 1, 2014

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1. Washington Post: Robert Samuelson: America’s demographic denial … For proof, see Paul Taylor’s new book, “The Next America.” Taylor oversees many of the Pew Research Center’s opinion surveys. His masterful synthesis of polls shows that three familiar mega-trends lie at the core of America’s political and social stalemate. First, immigration. By 2050, immigrants and…
Demography Links

Jan 11, 2014

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1. New York Times: Why Are Americans Staying Put? … “This decline in migration has been going on for a long time now, through all sorts of ups and downs in the housing market,” said Greg Kaplan of Princeton University, who, along with Sam Schulhofer-Wohl of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, has studied the…
Demography Links

Oct 28, 2013

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1. A look at global population trends in the Christian Science Monitor. "Too many people is a big problem, but too few is a concern as well." "The story of the 21st century has been one of falling birthrates, rising standards of living, and a revolution in food production. But the global picture is uneven:…
Saturday Links

Jun 8, 2013

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1. Loved this one: 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other. Here is one example. 2. In print and on stage, the Bible makes surprise comeback in secular Norway 3. Japan enters the African aid game: Japan $1 billion aid earmarked for northern Africa 4. The Economist had a…
Saturday Links

Feb 23, 2013

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1. Christian History magazine has an entire issue devoted to Christians in the New Industrial Economy: The World Changed, the Church Responded. It is a priceless collection of essays on how various religious traditions responded to (or failed to) the challenges of the Industrial Revolution. Issue 104 examines the impact of automation on Europe and…
Saturday Links

Dec 22, 2012

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(Like the Kruse Kronicle on Facebook if you want links to daily posts to appear in your Facebook feed.) 1. Several articles I saw this week reflect on data presented in The Pew Forum's The Global Religious Landscape: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Major Religious Groups as of 2010. Here…
Anti-nuclear madness grips developed world

Nov 26, 2012

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in Environment, Public Policy, Technology (Energy)

Orange County Register: Anti-nuclear madness grips developed world Gwynn Dyer, an independent journalist, writes: After the loss of 10 million American lives in the Three-Mile Island calamity in 1979, the death of 2 billion in the Chernobyl holocaust in 1986 and, now, the abandonment of all of northern Japan following the death of millions in…
China Replaced Japan in 2010 as No. 2 Economy

Feb 14, 2011

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in China, Economic News, Globalization, International Affairs

New York Times: China Replaced Japan in 2010 as No. 2 Economy TOKYO — Japan’s economy contracted in the fourth quarter when compared with the previous three months, though analysts are optimistic about the country’s prospects for the rest of the year. Japan’s gross domestic product fell 0.3 percent in the October-December quarter as the…
Some see a tea party brewing in Japan’s hinterland

Feb 11, 2011

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in International Affairs, Politics

The Economist: Maverick as hell … The national media dismisses the election results as a provincial fuss, saying that voters were simply fed up with Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), along with its main rival, and will back any alternative, however quirky. Yet the vote bodes ill for Mr Kan ahead…