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CHINA: Rural unemployment a challenge
State job creation schemes and social security initiatives have thus far prioritised the urban...
ChinaINTERNATIONAL: 'Realistic' regional trade deals gain
In recent years trade liberalisation has gathered considerable momentum, but mainly through...
InternationalINDIA: Patent Law augurs pharmaceutical shake-up
The new legislation seeks to bring India's laws on intellectual property laws into line with...
IndiaINTERNATIONAL: Labour standards
The global economic slowdown will stimulate a renewed wave of investment in low-factor-cost...
InternationalINTERNATIONAL: Firms face TRIPs 'loopholes'
Proposals were tabled at the June meetings of the WTO's intellectual property rights council on...
InternationalINTERNATIONAL: Security first, Africa second for G8
Leaders of the top-seven industrialised economies and Russia ended their summit yesterday....
InternationalCHINA: Enterprise groups face bureaucratic battles
Enterprise groups form part of an overall policy objective of consolidating key industries...
ChinaCHINA: Retail banking opens gradually
International banks' access to 964 billion dollars in household savings, as well as the...
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