Category: China
There are 4 entries in this category.
Mar 14, 2008
Legalization and Criminalization of Illicit Trade
Experts in a variety of fields passionately debate how to combat illicit trade in everything from drugs to endangered species to, worst of all, people. There are rational, credible arguments for both criminalizing and aggressively prosecuting those engaged in illicit trade and for legalizing and regulating the trade.
Jun 25, 2007
Tolerance a Boon to Slavery
While poverty is certainly one of the main factors driving the persistence of slavery it is by no means the only one. In fact, while India and China have succeeded spectacularly at reducing poverty, slavery persists and is quite possibly growing. At root is a tolerance for slavery, whether from corrupt government officials, cultural apologists or passive business partners.
Mar 28, 2007
TB Rates Decline, But XDR-TB Lurks in the Wings
The World Health Organization has announced that worldwide tuberculosis cases as a percentage of the population held steady in 2006. Yet more cases of tuberculosis are identified as extensively drug-resistent (XDR-TB).
Jan 24, 2007
Urban Migration: A Solution Bred from No Alternative
More than 200 million Chinese from rural areas are migrating to cities in search of work, often leaving their children behind. While this move toward the city seems inexorable, some creative people are thinking up ways to present the rural poor with alternatives.