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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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| 12:31a |
Знакомые все рожи
ЖЖ-юзеры разведали: Оказывается "студенты-философы" которые устроили перед выборами секс-перформанс в Ботаническом музее: ( Read more... ) | | 11:33a |
| | 1:16p |
Кончилось ваше время
10 лет назад Международный Валютный Фонд и прочие Мировые Банки-склянки были непререкаемыми авторитетами для всего развивающегося мира. Сегодня над ними смеются даже беднейшие страны Африки, где в качестве финансистов их заместили китайцы: The IMF and the World Bank used to drive the fear of God into government officials and elected leaders, but today they struggle to be listened to even by the poorest countries of Africa. The IMF spent years negotiating a transparency agreement with the Angolan government only to be told hours before the deal was due to be signed, in March 2004, that the authorities in Luanda were no longer interested in the money: they had secured a $2bn soft loan from China. This tale has been repeated across the continent—from Chad to Nigeria, Sudan to Algeria, Ethiopia and Uganda to Zimbabwe.http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10078Туда им и дорога, впрочем. Оттудо же: In February 2007, Hu Jintao proudly announced the creation of a new special economic zone complete with the usual combination of export subsidies, tax breaks and investments in roads, railways and shipping. However, this special economic zone was in the heart of Africa—in the copper-mining belt of Zambia. China is transplanting its growth model into the African continent by building a series of industrial hubs linked by rail, road and shipping lanes to the rest of the world. Zambia will be home to China's "metals hub," providing the People's Republic with copper, cobalt, diamonds, tin and uranium. The second zone will be in Mauritius, providing China with a "trading hub" that will give 40 Chinese businesses preferential access to the 20-member state common market of east and southern Africa stretching from Libya to Zimbabwe, as well as access to the Indian ocean and south Asian markets. The third zone—a "shipping hub"—will probably be in the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam. Nigeria, Liberia and the Cape Verde islands are competing for two other slots. In the same way that eastern Europe was changed by a competition to join the EU, we could see Africa transformed by the competition to attract Chinese investment. | | 3:53p |
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