World Bank chief economist Justin Lin says the global slowdown has prevented up to 90 million people from moving out of poverty.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

Justin Yifu Lin is the director of the China Centre for Economic Research at Peking University.

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Lin, Justin, and Marie examined the semi-conductor industry, where the initial reliance on vacuum tubes was replaced by bipolar technology, which in turn was replaced by complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS).

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