Full Contents - January 2004


MAGAZINE ARTICLE

  • Privatizing China

  • China's nominally communist government will move further from its ideological roots in 2004 by encouraging domestic and foreign private investors to buy China's remaining State-Owned Enterprises.

  • Technology hype

  • China has taken some giant leaps recently but it still has some way to go before it can call itself a high-tech powerhouse.

REVIEW

  • The end of deflation?

  • China's consumer price index (CPI) rose by 1.8% in October and 3% in November, the fastest in six years, leading some economists to wonder if China's deflationary trend is finally bottoming out.

  • Enhanced versatile red herring

  • In 1999, nine global electronics giants, including Sony and Toshiba, pressured Chinese DVD makers into paying US$9 in retroactive royalties for every player they had previously exported.

  • Insurance homework

  • Time is on the side of foreign players looking to enter the Chinese insurance market.

  • The road to maturity

  • China's stock markets have been plagued by numerous problems since their inception but things are gradually improving.

  • Jane

  • Foreign correspondents in China spend years digging into the detail of the country and the information they uncover and the conclusions they reach are communicated to the world in real-time and then disappear into the archives, never to be seen again. Surprisingly few write books which sum up their experiences, but there is a new exception from Australian journalist Jane Hutcheon.

CULTURE

Book Review

MARKETS

Industry Overview

  • The unemployment race

  • American politicians from both sides of the partisan divide have targeted China as the primary culprit for the 'jobless recovery' in the US.
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