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www.andrewmok.ca 16 PUTTING DOWN ROOTS | Chinese students abroad weigh returning to the motherland
18 POSTCARD FROM TOKYO | Te global economy is now at the mercy of politics, writes Frederic Neumann 22 HOT SEAT | Bill Dodson on whether climate change will bring on China’s “Sputnik moment” 26 MONEY AND DRUGS | L.E.K. Consulting on where the pharmaceutical industry should put its money 37 BET THE SPEND | Investing in metals grows trickier in the post-boom era 45 TO BE OR NOT TO BE | Benelux rescues its union from redundancy
MONTH IN REVIEW 10 NEWS ROUNDUP | GDP slips, the stock market dips and Lenovo grips No. 1 10 CHINA BY NUMBERS | $1.2m: Prize money for China’s first Nobel in literature
12 SECOND THOUGHTS | A new Pew poll shows more Chinese worry about the ills of development
AFTER THE CLOSE 48 COMPANY INDEX 48 LISTINGS 52 INDICATORS 54 CHINA BUZZ | “Tis is shaping up to be an election to select the person who gets to apologize to China.”
4 China Economic Review • November 2012
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