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China’s Urbanization Unlikely To Lead To Fast Growth of Middle Class: UW Geographer

The number of people living in China’s cities, which last year for the first time surpassed 50 percent of the national population, is considered a boon for the consumer goods market. That is based on the assumption that there will be more families with more disposable income when poor farmers from China’s countryside move to cities and become middle-class industrial and office workers. (more…)

Local Cops on Front Lines Against Product Counterfeiting

By Guest PostFebruary 22, 2012Generalacappp, automaker, car windshields, China, cholesterol drugs, common perception, criminal justice, criminologist, detroit, front line, global market, jeremy wilson, jewelry, justin heinonen, local police, michigan, michigan state university, port of detroit, product counterfeiting, summer, super bowl xl apparel

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Contrary to common perception, state and local police are often on the front lines against product counterfeiting, yet it’s unclear how prepared they are to deal with the growing crime, according to a new report from two Michigan State University criminologists.

Justin Heinonen and Jeremy Wilson found that local and/or state police were involved in nearly half of the identified product counterfeiting cases related to Michigan, which range from jewelry to car windshields to cholesterol drugs. (more…)

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China’s Urbanization Unlikely To Lead To Fast Growth of Middle Class: UW Geographer

Local Cops on Front Lines Against Product Counterfeiting