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...mention other basic tenets of capitalism, like property rights. But the crisis is also coming to a head at a time when the Russian miracle is beginning to lose its luster. At home, even some officials are questioning the realism of the Kremlin's plans to double gdp by 2010. Runs on two banks last week - unrelated to the Yukos affair but worrisome nonetheless - have focused attention on the Putin administration's failure to push through structural reform. Still, adds the World Bank's Ruehl, "foreign portfolio managers have a short memory." If things calm down after the Yukos endgame...
...billion Cuba's estimated GDP...
WOODWARD: In 1850 we spent 80% of GDP on food. Puts things in perspective. It is under 20% now. Is it impossible that we get to where we put 80% on health care...
...size of the U.S.'s and less than half of Japan's). But China's voracious demand for the world's raw materials and its burgeoning consumer markets means that the country has taken on outsized importance as an engine of global economic growth. Since 1995, China's GDP has doubled and its imports have tripled, making it an increasingly important trading partner for export-driven economies such as Japan, where trade with China accounted for 32% of export growth last year...
...World Trade Organization, has more-diverse industries and markets, a more flexible industrial base and a better-trained workforce. Although the country's official growth target of 7% is thought to be difficult to achieve, the median prediction among economists tracked by Bloomberg holds that China's GDP growth will slow to 8.7% this year...