Regional politics, as well as economics, must be considered.

ECONOMIST: Hanoi Bill

Taranco was educated at Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied first economics and then urban-regional economic planning.

UN: Secretary-General

Ted Truman, a long-time Fed staffer now at the Institute for International Economics, remembers staff, governors and regional presidents going to dinners at the house of Mr Greenspan's then girlfriend (now wife).

ECONOMIST: The Federal Reserve

The main complaint was not the U.S. and European economies, but about taxes and fees charged by local governments, regional protectionism and tight credit, said Fan Gang, director of the National Economics Research Institute at the China Reform Foundation, which compiled the data.

FORBES: China Inc. Blames Govt. For Worsening Market