Although part of China's growth has been fueled by foreign direct investment, it is internal capital that has driven a surge in property, infrastructure and plant capacity.

FORBES: Side Lines

The following year it bought Jefferson Wells, a specialist accounting-staff firm a purchase that was to prove spectacularly well-timed, just before America's Sarbanes-Oxley act caused a surge in demand for staff to work on internal audits.

ECONOMIST: Manpower