What is the main motivation behind the self-employment boom?

BBC: Behind the Budget challenge

Sure enough, ethnic-Han Chinese, many of them recent migrants hoping to profit from a train-related tourism boom, were the main targets of the violence in Lhasa.

ECONOMIST: Tibet

While six of Australia's top ten export markets are already in recession, the chief impact has come from the slowdown in one that is not: China, its biggest trading partner, and the main driver of a minerals boom that has fed fat company-tax revenues.

ECONOMIST: Kevin Rudd shops for a recovery

At home, the main risk is that lower interest rates will prolong the house-price boom.

ECONOMIST: The Bank of England yanks down its growth forecast

The boom in ethanol has been driven by three main components--a blenders' credit that creates an incentive for producers who add ethanol to their fuel, an import tariff that keeps out foreign competitors, and a renewable fuels standard that sets the level of production.

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