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January 26, 2010
Real estate: China's catch-22
Real estate are the main source for local governments to get money, and the lingering crisis because of excessive spending might be hard to solve, says Victor Shih in NPR. China is having a property crisis of its own, much different from that in the United States, but no less severe.
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Kroeber, Arthur
Managing Director and Head of Research, Dragonomics

Travels from: Beijing

Arthur Kroeber is a respected writer and commentator on Chinese economy and Chinese companies. He has been the managing director and head of research at Dragonomics since 2002.

He began working in Asia in 1987 as a journalist specialising in economic affairs, and has reported from China, India, and several other Asian countries. From 1992 to 2002 he was a correspondent of the Economist Intelligence Unit covering China and South Asia and was the author of numerous research reports on China and India.

Mr Kroeber is a regular contributor to the opinion page of the Financial Times and a consultant to Oxford Analytica. His articles have also appeared in the Economist, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Wired, and other publications.

Mr. Kroeber graduated from Harvard University and had been working as financial report for years.

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