This article is about the life expectancy in the UK. Life expectancy is an important signal of the development. This article shows that the UK is well developed.
This article is about the Botswana Bureau of Standards working on developing a new quality of standard for bottled waters (both domestically produced and foreign imports). This is a form of trade barrier as foreign exporters may have to raise their quality of bottled water to the new standard in order to export.
Japan, as we know, was devastated by the earthquake last year. This article is just thanking the world for all the aid. This article indirectly shows that the right sort of aid to a country with a stable political sector will ultimately help the country.
This article talks about Obama (US) submitting a free trade agreement to Panama, Columbia and Korea (South, I believe). The free trade agreement would benefit the different nations, as well as raise issues in different ways as two of the countries are developing and one is a developed country.
This article discusses China's income distribution gap. It also relates to the methods used and the dishonesty China has presented previously. Philosophically, there should be no income gap because of the basic concepts of communism, but this is not the case.
This is an article about how there is more FDI going towards Nigeria and other parts of Africa. This will help the African nations if the politics around the investment are controlled. Usually there will be a increase in the wealthier population and an increase in the poorer population without much growth to the middle class
I think that this article is very relevant to our Week 5 topic demand not only because it is about Apple but the fact that they constantly develop new technologies to increase consumer demands.
This article is about Shanghai (China) setting a record of having the average life expectancy up to 82.13 years of age from a previous record of 81.73 years of age. It is also said in the article that the mortality rate of infants, and adults have both decreased.