Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Links of the day

How do rich Asians adapt to unbalanced sex ratios?..."Poor regions suffering from serious sex imbalances will face serious problems indeed...Richer regions, though, can import their women from poorer regions. This is already happening on a large scale in China, where not only women from poorer parts of China but ambitious emigrants from Vietnam are entering the marriage market in richer areas. In Taiwan and South Korea, two wealthy countries with pronounced sex ratios in favour of men, the immigration of women from poorer countries--Vietnam, the Philippines, China--has taken on remarkably large dimensions, as Attané notes in the case of Taiwan"...

Northern Ghawar is in decline...detailed analysis of the prospects of a major oil field in Saudi Arabia which appears to be going through a production decline and provides a significant fraction of Saudi Arabia's oil production...

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