Wednesday, August 01, 2012
The recent drop in China’s GDP growth has raised concerns with many who hoped the country’s economy would underpin a global financial recovery. For China’s government, the speed at which it becomes a ‘new entrant’ in the global financial markets needs to be balanced by its necessity to protect the region’s economic stability.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
In 1967, the American psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to determine how many acquaintances it would take to pass a letter between two randomly selected people. He concluded that it took six steps or fewer to connect any two people in the world and coined the term ‘six degrees of separation’. Rapid technological progress and the advent of social networks have further reduced the number of hops required to connect different people and organizations around the globe.
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