Global Economy

Where Apple Products Are Born: A Rare Glimpse Inside Foxconn’s Factory Gates

The 1.4 mile-square Longhua complex, with its 140,000 employees, speaks to Shenzhen’s identity as a global manufacturing hub. The city, once a fishing village in the Pearl River Delta region, was designated as a special economic zone in 1980. Its population swelled from 30,000 to more than 10 million as rural workers migrated to the fast-growing city in search of opportunity.

Though Woo notes, by way of context, that 12 suicides per one million employees is lower than the U.S. suicide rate of 13 per 100,000

What will it take for the euro zone to cut Greece loose?

Confronting big economic challenges

The eurozone is still flirting with disaster

What To Buy If Greece Exits The Euro Zone

A mishap should not seal Greece’s fate

Latin America’s Real Corruption Crisis

European manufacturers getting more positive amid lower euro

Are Equities Overvalued?

Profit at iPhone Assembler Foxconn Rose 22% Last Year

Opinion: An inside look at China’s ‘new normal’ economy

Double digit unemployment predicted even if eurozone recovers

Tencent, Foxconn & China Harmony Unite to Build Smart Cars - Analyst Blog

Could Europe lose Greece to Russia?

With New Nonstick Coating, the Wait, and Waste, Is Over

Singapore, the Nation That Lee Kuan Yew Built, Questions Its Direction

Battling a low birthrate among its citizens, the government opened the floodgates to foreign labor over the past decade and a half. More than a third of the 5.5 million people living in Singapore today are not citizens.The number of nonresident immigrants has more than doubled since 2000, to nearly 1.6 million from 754,000. The number of foreigners given permanent resident status also nearly doubled during the same period, to just over 500,000.

Japan: Lessons from a hyperaging society

The bailout crisis: Germany’s view of how Greece fell from grace

QE Undermines the ECB’s Crisis-Fighting Ability