Despite impressive growth, the rising Asian giants have feet of clay

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By Pranab Bardhan



BERKELEY: The media, particularly the financial press, are all agog

over the rise of China and India in the international economy. After

a long period of relative stagnation, these two countries, nearly

two-fifths of the world population, have seen their incomes grow at

remarkably high rates over the last two decades. Journalists have

By Michelle V. Rafter



Such initiatives may be a good way to identify abuses at overseas factories, but they do little to change long-term labor practices, one observer says

By Jim Hightower

If an ideologically incorrect study is done inside the Bush regime, does

it make a noise?

Not if the White House can squelch it, which is exactly what they've

tried to do to a report about labor abuses in Central America. For more

than a year, the Department of Labor has fought ferociously to block the

release of a study showing that working conditions in six Latin American

nations are abysmal and that government officials in the region do

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE

Wal-Mart Stores issued its first response yesterday to a lawsuit that accuses it of allowing sweatshop conditions at overseas factories, saying that the labor rights group that filed the lawsuit on Tuesday had ''a history of presenting opinions as facts.''

After the group, the International Labor Rights Fund, filed the class-action suit in Los Angeles on behalf of employees for Wal-Mart contractors in China, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Swaziland and Indonesia, Wal-Mart said it needed to study the lawsuit before responding.