Resource shortages are opportunities for profit. The greater the shortage, the greater the opportunity. China needs water and lots of it. It’s a key resource for growth. There is a huge shortage of water in China. A person in Beijing has access to less water than a person in Israel.* The water that is available […]
Category Archives: China
China: Resources and Growth
September 8, 2006 – 8:57 am
Growth requires resources and the rest of the world does not understand the real story of resources in China. From water to minerals to ore to oil to electricity to land to renewable resources like lumber, China faces constraints on resources that are little understood and unappreciated by most of the rest of the world. […]
Growth and Migration: Opportunity or Problem?
August 31, 2006 – 11:12 am
The massive rural to urban migration currently occurring in China is both an opportunity and a problem. One of the underlying societal phenomena that gets little notice outside China is the huge migration from the impoverished rural area’s to urban areas. This migration, like all migrations before it, is the result of fairly simple economics. […]
Business in China: A Modern Day Frontier
August 26, 2006 – 1:30 am
China; the promised land of modern-day business. one-point-three billion customers. You gotta get there. If you don’t have a synergistic, forward-looking, first-mover advantage taking strategy that you’re already implementing, then you’re hopelessly late.
I’ve been here long enough now to get my feet on the ground – barely – and maybe all that’s true or maybe […]
