Archive for November 2017
The most important book on economic growth to have appeared for many years
Vu Minh Khuong’s The Dynamics of Economic Growth is the most important book on world economic growth to have appeared for many years. It is for that reason (full disclosure) that I did a small amount of work assisting on editing it. The crucial importance of the book is rightly summed up by Professor Dale Jorgenson, of Harvard University,…
Read MoreChina is most promising hope for Third World: Fidel
By far the two largest groups of socialists in the world are in China, in the tradition created by Mao Zedong, and in Latin America – the followers of Fidel Castro. Dialogue between these two currents is therefore of critical importance for the future of socialism in the world. The following article by Ajit Singh outlines the analysis…
Read MoreChina’s increasing impact in Central and Eastern Europe
The Financial Times carried on 27 November a long article on China’s increasing impact in Central and Eastern Europe under the self-explanatory title ‘Eastern Europe’s China pivot’. Unfortunately for copyright reasons it is not possible to republish the article and a subscription to the FT is necessary to read it. However the general analysis…
Read MoreChinese and Latin American socialists meet and honour the achievements of Fidel Castro.
On 27 November socialists from China and Latin America met in China at the fifth Forum on the Left and Socialism in Latin America and the Caribbean and honoured the achievements of Fidel Castro who died one year ago. The article below from Prensa Latina reports the meeting. The great respect of China for Fidel…
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