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The article discusses the role that private sector businesses play in economic development in China, comparing it with the impact of state capitalism on China's economic conditions. An overview of Chinese industrial state-owned enterprises (SOEs), including their contribution to China's gross domestic product (GDP), is provided.

The article presents a paper published by British economist Ronald Coase which pointed out a glaring omission within companies that standard model of economics did not fit with what goes on within them. The paper has raised different questions including why market transactions emerged if firms exist to reduce transaction costs and what decides how the economy as a whole is organised. Also tackled is the management of ties between a firm and its stakeholders.

The article focuses on paper by Gerhard Toews of the New Economic School according to which regions where enemies of the people (EOTP) were jailed reaping economic benefits from forced migration and mentions economic development of prison sites.

The article offers business news briefs across the world as of March 7, 2020. International Air Transport Association has reported that outbreak of coronavirus has caused demand of airline passenger to grow at slowest. Economy of India has seen growth from revised figures of 2019. Officials of New York have reckoned that residents use plastic bags which clog landfills and entangled in trees.

The article reports on the economic conditions of India as of June 2019. Topics discussed include a paper published by Arvind Subramanian, India's former chief economist, in which he argues that India's growth figures have been greatly overstated, indicators that have slowed sharply since 2011-12, and Subramanian's criticism on a method of calculating from 2011-12 onwards.

The article focuses on a paper by researchers James Hamilton, Ethan Harris, Jan Hatzius, and Kenneth West, published by the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, which dealt with secular stagnation, a type of economic stagnation stemming from a lack of investment. Topics include if the U.S. is experiencing secular stagnation and the economic recovery of the U.S. after the global financial crisis.

The article focuses on researcher Marcella Alsan's paper "The Effect of the Tsetse Fly on African Development," published in a 2015 issue of "American Economic Review," which examines how the tsetse fly impacted where Africans were able to settle throughout history.