The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warned that what had been some of the world’s strongest economies — China, Russia and Germany — are now deteriorating the most quickly, and that the entire global system is succumbing to what it called a “deep slowdown.”
China’s exports dropped almost 3 percent last month, their biggest decline in a decade, and there are estimates that unemployment is now as high as 9 percent in urban areas and 20 percent in rural areas.
Marcus Mabry, the international business editor of the The New York Times, joins Martin Savidge to discuss the OECD’s report, how the deterioration of major world economies will impact the U.S. and stimulus plans abroad.
01/25/2009 :: 12:39:39 AM
Dave Says:
annjell… you’ve got it wrong. It’s the natural flow of a nation’s economic roots. From agrarian to industrial to service. When labor costs get too high in an industrial-based nation, factories move to nations with cheaper labor. It’s all part of the process. No one’s to blame… it’s just a matter of global economics.