What do the following mean for the world economy?
- Data Signals Economic Trouble in China
- "China announced Thursday that growth in imports had unexpectedly come to a screeching halt in April — rising just 0.3 percent from the same period a year earlier, compared with expectations for an 11 percent increase."
- Never Mind Europe. Worry About India.
- Per the article, economic growth in India seems to be slowing, with lowest rates of growth amongst the poor. Here a lot of the problems seem governmental in origin if you buy the article's argument - basically barriers to investment and retroactive taxation. On cell centers: "these economically segregated islands of higher productivity suggest that success is achieved by separating oneself from the broader Indian economy, not by integrating with it."