All Roads Lead to China:

One of the first programs I worked on was a study of the agricultural landscape in the Jiangsu province.  I was working with a friend to understand how farmers gained access to market information, how they made decisions about crops to plant, what technologies they were using to improve their yields, and how they took [...]

Real quickly. Following my post earlier this week on the World Bank’s call on its Quarterly China update, I have been passed the link where readers can go to see the transcript of the call. In reading through the transcript, there are a few questions that I think were quite interesting, and the responses were [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I threw out the argument that the potential success of Vietnam was severely limited over the next 5 years because their logistics infrastructure was not in place to support large amounts of FDI… Well, as it turns out the World Bank agrees with me, or at least their recent Logistics [...]

Anyone who has lived in China at any point in the last 10 years will attest to the growth of China’s east coast cities. For many who watched China’s rise, one of the most amazing measures was GDP growth, and the fact that China has been able to sustain double digit growth for so many [...]

In my nearly 6 years in China, it has been incredible to see the interest in China (and the money that followed) skyrocket.  It is a topic that I find myself having more and more as friends talk about how easy it was 5 years ago to buy apartments, as we speak to government officials [...]