Archive for the ‘China Graphs’ Category

Graphic China: Global City Comparison

Friday, April 18th, 2008

I mentioned this before in a previous article, but I still crack up when I think of what an Indian friend of mine said to me recently. We were talking about how fast China has been developing its industries when he wise-cracked: "India could do with twenty years of no ...

Improving Business Environment May Not Be Best for China BPO

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

New Venture Outsourcing Blog has an insightful report about AT Kearney's study on the competitiveness of various countries in shared services such as IT- and Business Process Outsourcing, call centers and the like. Chris Harris, author of the blog, digs beneath the numbers and observes, "... you can see that ...

Graphic China: Foreign Direct Investment Clusters

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

The World Bank showed in its 2006 report “China Governance, Investment Climate, and Harmonious Society: Competitiveness Enhancements for 120 Cities in China” that a great deal of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China clusters in areas in which the GDP per capita for the location is about rmb8,000 (US$1,100) (see ...

Graphic China: Shanghai Moves Up the Value Chain

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

I took some numbers from the Shanghai Municipal Statistics Bureau representing the contribution of industry categories to the Shanghai economy and put them in a spreadsheet. The graph to the left is the result. Primary industries involve the processing of natural resources such as iron, coal and wood. Light industry ...