{"id":2579,"date":"2014-01-25T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T01:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2014-01-26T22:03:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T13:03:01","slug":"the-economist-january-25-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2579","title":{"rendered":"The Economist (January 25, 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn some ways, China\u2019s market is still the world\u2019s most enticing. Although it accounts for only around 8% of private consumption in the world, it contributed more than any other country to the growth of consumption in 2011-13.\u201d But China is proving vexing to foreign firms as they find themselves subject to government whims, strong local competition, a tighter labor market and slowing growth. Some are scaling down. Others stumbling or even pulling out. \u201cChina is still a rich prize. Firms that can boost productivity, improve governance and respond to local tastes can still prosper. But the golden years are over.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn some ways, China\u2019s market is still the world\u2019s most enticing. Although it accounts for only around 8% of private consumption in the world, it contributed more than any other country to the growth of consumption in 2011-13.\u201d But China is proving vexing to foreign firms as they find themselves subject to government whims, strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,420,2036,3234,3235,3236,530,161,215,2306,110,2440],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-china","tag-competition","tag-consumption","tag-enticing","tag-foreign-firms","tag-golden-years","tag-governance","tag-government","tag-growth","tag-labor-market","tag-productivity","tag-slowing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}