The slowdown is posing perhaps the most sustained challenge to President Xi Jinping’s agenda in over a decade in power. He now faces a tangle of difficult choices.
Tag: Small Business
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The Ground-Floor Window Into What’s Ailing Downtowns
City centers may have to be reimagined to solve the problem of vacant storefronts.
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Staking the Future on a Stretch of Sidewalk in Brooklyn
Immigrant street vendors have been setting up shop on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park for decades. A pecking order loosely allocates the spaces, but the setup is not worry free.
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She Rose From Poverty as China Prospered. Then It Made Her Poor Again.
Sun Junli is one of many small-business owners, the backbone of China’s economy, who lost everything to a change in government policy.
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China’s Property Crisis Is Rippling Through the Economy
As a real estate meltdown ripples through the economy, small businesses and workers are owed hundreds of billions of dollars, and new projects have dried up.