Marijn Nieuwenhuis, from the University of Warwick's DepartmentofPolitics and International Studies, and contributing author to the book "Shanghai New Towns, " explained that the city's boom began in the early 1990s with the construction of the Pudong commercial district.
Dr David Hine, a tutorial fellow at Oxford University's DepartmentofPolitics and International Relations, also suggests Mr Berlusconi is "highly unlikely" to end up in prison.