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Hong Kong and other Chinese cities are driving an economic explosion that's blessing the world as a whole - but threatening many Westerners. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/95572727@N00/953669278/">Trey Ratcliff (Flickr)</a>

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Does the economic growth of poor countries terrify Westerners?

A Vancouver Sun story published Sunday offers a fascinating way of thinking about the scale of China's economic explosion:

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Who makes up the global middle class? Economists aren’t sure

We know that economists don’t always agree on the best path to prosperity.

Failure to adapt to global climate change led to unrest across the Arab World. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/6argoo3a/6253592631/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Saleem-Homsi (Flickr)</a>

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How climate change puts the heat on governments

Incompetent, unjust governance by some of the Middle East’s worst despots brewed a recipe for disaster before the Arab Spring, but it took climate change to turn up the heat.

Finding prime locations to generate solar energy in India is one application of innovative mapping technology. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hjl/54928934/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Photo: hjl (flickr)</a>

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Seeking prosperity? More often than ever, there's a map for that

New mapping innovations are helping communities around the world make their way toward relief and opportunity.

View of Istanbul from Bogazici Universitesi. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cemnaz/306595868/in/photostream/">Cemnaz (flickr)</a>

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From Oregon to Turkey

I'll be waking up at 3:30 tomorrow morning to begin my journey from Portland, Oregon, to Istanbul, Turkey, where I'll be based for the next several months while I embark on a trip of a lifetime.

Markets like these in Egypt bring in local as well as tourist business, helping to increase Egypt's overall economic strength. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9435171@N03/3424964240/sizes/m/in/photostream/">effeietsanders (Flickr)</a>

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Africa May Become First BRIC Continent

Though they are currently considered to be developing economies, the four BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India, and China — are expected to become economically dominant by the year 2050. Now, Jim O'Neill, the econ

What will the growth of the Mongolian mining industry mean for the country's nomadic herders? Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps

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Mines in Mongolia

Mongolia could soon be home to the largest copper mine in the world.

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Guide to the Global Summit

The G-20 is meeting this week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Decaying dams like this one threaten the Russian economy Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/avatar28/3681374288/"> Avatar28 (flickr)</a>

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Russian economy on thin ice

The giant Russian Sayano-Shusheskaya dam recently suffered an accident which killed up to 75 workers and knocked out 2 percent of the national power supply.

Thomas Benke (center) works with Sichuan Research Institute of Environmental Protection chemists and OFSSA staff to set-up the Gas Chromatograph. Photo: Courtesy of Thomas Benke.

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Sister(city)hood Goes Beyond Cultural Exchange

Four years ago, a petrochemical plant on the border of China and Russia spilled 100 metric tons of the toxic chemicals into a tributary of the Amur River.

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The World's Next Breadbasket

Could Africa be the world's next breadbasket?

Tourists snap photos of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, Russia. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fenst/2952204038/">Fenst (flickr)</a>

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A Russian Experience with the Free Market

A major objective of Global Envision is to explore the relationships between market economies and poverty alleviation.

Vologda, Russia. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/borches/292563306/">Borches (flickr)</a>

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Vologda, Russia: Where the jobs are few and the lumber is cheap

One small Russian town is taking an untraditional approach to helping residents cope with the economic crisis: They're practically giving away lumber, according to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal.

Tajik women take on the bulk of responsibility while husbands and sons have left the country for migrant work. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps

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Tajikistan's Hidden Economy

Tajikistan has the highest remittance rate in the world — a recent World Bank report says that around half of the Central Asian country's money

Dubai's Construction Skyline at Night. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeingthings/463684899/">twocentsworth (flickr)</a>

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The Sky's Limits

The financial crisis is crimping construction in the Middle East and other places that had been experiencing a building boom, Der Spiegel reports.

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