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"Across the whole of the west of China, you can see the government straining every sinew to keep the economy growing, but the collapsing ecosystem means there's only so much they can do."

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"With so many options to choose from, people find it difficult to choose at all."

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Frontline follows the ups and downs of a few members of the young generation pushing China's forward at an unprecedented pace.

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[Found via Thomas Williams] A 2006 documentary by Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson family fortune, on the growing gap between the wealthiest of the US and the average (and below-average) citizens.

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What does the recession look like, across the US? Yet another fantastic graphic from NYT.

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Oster takes a provocative approach to examining the African AIDS epidemic from an economist's perspective. Her correlation between exports and AIDS proliferation really astounded me.

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Hans Rosling, you are the man. Another must-watch TED talk by the master of world statistics.

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The economics of a single block of Chinatown known as the bah-see zhan (Bus Stop). Typical NY Times Magazine style, well written.

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala discusses the very positive economic growth in Africa too infrequently reported.

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A little bit longwinded, but the bit on designing a Chinese city at the end is very interesting, so feel free to skip ahead to that.

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Brief, layman NYT summary of why the US economy has spiraled downhill as a result of subprime mortgages.

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PacBio is hoping to unleash yet another revolutionary sequencing technology in 2010 that uses sophisticated optics to sequence DNA as it's copied from a single strand. This is nuts.

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A map of the world where country size is proportional to oil fields.

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The animation for this video is as awing as the prices for advertising.

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Ashraf Ghani, who served as Finance Minister for Afghanistan in 2001, presents another call for foreign investment, rather than foreign aid. His detracting comments on micro-investments are interesting.

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Another talk demonstrating the empowerment of poor by private investment and business provides the necessary steps to ending poverty. Short and to the point without leaving out personal connections.

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Investment by private company into poor countries provides greater positive economic impact than government aid, as demonstrated by Quadir in this TED talk.

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A really interesting, entertaining, enlightening talk by Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt on the economics of inner city gangs. A must-watch!

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Another brilliant case of really smart people coming up with really viable, simple solutions to really big problems.

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