In the first part of this article, the authors looked at the trade in counterfeit goods in the context of the massive changes taking place in the world economy and suggested that China’s current pre-eminence as the major source of the world’s counterfeits might come under threat from other emerging ‘competitors’. In part two, they …

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Saturday 28 January saw the annual Data Privacy Day1 once again upon us – an annual effort to alert the world to the importance of data protection, which, to date, has had varying degrees of success. Except this year it feels a little different – between the PlayStation Network being hacked2 , the Leveson enquiry3, …

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India’s success story is discernible as new millionaires are being added to 
the number every day, some within a few years of creating their initial fortunes. According to the World Wealth Report compiled by Capgemini and Merrill Lynch, India’s high-net-worth individuals (HNI)1population entered the top 12 in the world for the first time in 2010. …

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