Shaky State of North-South Relations
North-South, or developed-emerging economy dealings, are becoming more contentious.
Read more...North-South, or developed-emerging economy dealings, are becoming more contentious.
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Read more...By Michael Pettis, a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a finance professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. Cross posted from China Financial Markets. For the past ten years much of what I have written about debt in China was aimed mainly at trying to convince analysts and policymakers […]
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