When times improve, small and medium-scale manufacturers will find it hard to restart without access to Chinese money.

ECONOMIST: The ethnic Chinese in Indonesia continue to live in fear

Thus loans to small and medium-size businesses took an unnecessarily hard hit.

FORBES: Slay the Basel Accord Beast

For small and medium-sized firms such services are hard to find.

ECONOMIST: For once, a foreign bank may have bought wisely in China

Unlike rich countries, this argument goes, Latin America may gain more in the medium term by defending its hard-won fiscal stability and relying on the outside world for stimulus.

ECONOMIST: Latin America's economies

Italy is mired in recession, with a massive debt burden, and needs to get investment flowing again to hard-hit small and medium-sized businesses.

BBC: Italy experts present reforms in new coalition bid

Even those who accept that Greece's problems are largely self-made are depressed by an austerity plan that seems to offer so little hope for the medium term, and will punish many hard-working and modestly paid ordinary Greeks.

ECONOMIST: The Greek crisis

Medium pacer Paul Hitchcock replaced spinner Jeetan Patel and the hard-hitting Jacob Oram rested a tight hamstring, batsman Daniel Flynn getting a debut.

BBC: England beat Kiwis to seal series

Hard assets will benefit as a hedge from the medium and long-term reduction in purchasing power of various world currencies, he said.

FORBES: Gold ETPs See Greatest Inflows In Third Quarter -- ETF Securities

I've worked long and hard in all my teaching career to be involved in Gaelic-medium education and it's just amazing that we're at this stage.

BBC: Bi-lingual schools thrive in nations

To get Anderson localisation to operate in a random laser has not been easy, mainly because it is hard to find a substance that both acts as a high-gain medium and scatters light very strongly.

ECONOMIST: Microlasers