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A government that seemed in its first term to be selfconsciously pragmatic has revealed itself in its second term to be much more ideologically driven. An increasingly obvious sign of that tougher approach has been the Government's apparent conviction that most issues are best entrusted to market forces.
The evidence for this is coming thick and fast. We have seen it in the contract with a private firm to build and run a major prison in Auckland, and in the appointment of a businessman to ensure the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade either replaces diplomats with businessmen or compels them to behave like businessmen.
We have seen it, too, in the sharply increased use of private consultants and contractors for work hitherto undertaken by the public service. The motivation here has been not so much to save money, since private consultants are as the record annual expenditure of $189 million shows an expensive option; rather, the Government believes that it is worth spending extra money because the private sector will inevitably deliver better results.
That belief rests more on ideological preference than hard facts; the proponents of the view that market provision is always best do not always bother too much with looking at the evidence.
A recent example is the recommendation from the chairman of Auckland Council's business advisory panel, Cameron Brewer, that future motorways should be funded from tolls on existing roads an idea, it seems, plucked straight from the pages of a beginner's manual of improbable "freemarket" solutions.
But perhaps the most startling example of the Government's keenness to use private business to pursue its objectives in every aspect of our national life is the decision to contract private firms to build, own and run publicly funded schools for our children. We are not permitted to know the financial details of that arrangement. The only thing we do know is that it is part of the price that Act demanded in return for supporting National in government.
Act was able to "demand" such a price of course only because National arranged it that way, so we must suppose that the initiative is one National wants to take anyway. But there are other, more substantial reasons for looking askance at the socalled "charter" schools.
The "charter" school is, like the privately run prison, an example of a public/private partnership or PPP. The case for such arrangements is that what would normally be funded by the taxpayer is instead financed by private business, with allegedly a saving as a consequence to the public purse.
But a moment's thought would suggest that this is unlikely to be the case. The cost of financing a project will be the same in principle, wherever the funding comes from. While the initial capital cost, under a PPP, is borne by the private investor, that investor will want to cover the cost of capital and in addition earn a return on capital (or profit) over the lifetime of the scheme typically, 25 or 30 years. Not surprisingly,[url=http://www.sport.fr/business/louisvuitton.html]louis vuitton femmes[/url], in countries like the UK where such schemes were pioneered two or three decades ago, recent impartial research has shown that they often cost the taxpayer more over the whole period than if they were built and funded by more conventional methods.
The truth is that the main function of PPPs is to provide, through infrastructure projects, secure and profitable investment opportunities for the Government's friends in the private sector, while ensuring that the greater cost of funding the projects in this way is spread forward over decades to be borne by future taxpayers.
But that is only one of the reasons that we should be wary of such arrangements. It is not just the funding that the Government would prefer to provide from the private sector. It is also the policy direction of the education we provide to our children that the Government wishes to sell to business.
This is, in other words, one more instance though a particularly significant one of the extent to which the market has now invaded virtually every area of our lives. The view that everything has a market price, and should be traded as though it were a commodity, is now deeply entrenched in our daily lives.
How long before prisoners are able to "upgrade" their cells in the new private prisons, as is already being done in some American states? How about buying the right to drive one's car down a bus lane? We're getting perilously close to that in Auckland.
What about the right to shoot endangered species? You can buy that, too, for the threatened black rhino in South Africa. Buying the right to live in New Zealand? Yes, if you've got the money. And how long before pupils at the new charter schools are paid $2 for each book they read which is what privately run schools in Dallas do to boost performance?
If the market makes everything available at the right price, we lose sight of other perhaps more important values. But it will suit some people; those with the most purchasing power will be delighted to find that nothing can be denied them.

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SAIC's 1000 new energy vehicles,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the demonstration run by far the largest scale in last year's Shanghai expo. At the same time,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], SAIC has launched the Roewe hybrid car fuel-saving 20%, in 2012 will launch a plug-in fuel-saving 50% strong mixing cars and pure electric cars. While GM's Chevrolet Volt Dazeng program Volt electric car has entered the industrialization stage. The next few years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], SAIC, and both sides of the joint venture will be based on the joint development of a new generation of electric vehicle platform to push new products.
in Shanghai on 20 September, (reporter Chang Huiying) as the Chinese mainland A shares market is the biggest car company,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Limited by Share Ltd and General Motors Corporation 20 in Shanghai jointly announced, the two sides will jointly develop a new generation of electric vehicle platform,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and jointly promote the popularization and application of electric vehicles in the world.
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at the same time, Shanghai Jiading international electric vehicle demonstration area to more than 10000 of the electric vehicle application demonstration vehicles will be completed next year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], including a plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, pure electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. This year the first batch of Shanghai electric cars has listed in.
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There is a cafe-lined street called Cheongja-dong in Bundang New Town,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Gyeonggi Province. It's real name is actually Jeongja-dong, but the new name was given to reference Cheongdam-dong in the upscale Gangnam area of Seoul, a popular destination for trendy young people.
Just a few years ago Cheongja-dong was a bleak urban wilderness,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with scarcely a cup of coffee or meal to be found. It was transformed into a lively and crowded destination almost by sheer chance. A couple shop owners in the area began to place tables and chairs on two-meter-wide "terraces" in front of their shops. As word got out that there were street cafes like the ones in the Champs-Elysees in Paris, young people began to flock to the area.
Motivated by the growing crowds,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], other shops began building terraces of their own. Once it became known as a terrace street, it turned into a popular destination,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], even drawing people from Gangnam who came to enjoy the atmosphere.
The charm of a destination street like Cheongja-dong, like the brand power of a regional area, is a distinctive character that cannot be found anywhere else. A once insignificant street can become a nationwide attraction through the brand power of its residents' ideas.
In the 1980s,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], traditional marketplaces in Nagahama, a small city in Japan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], saw their customers dwindle after supermarkets opened in the suburbs. The local merchants began to close up shop one after the next. Then some of the remaining business owners fixed their eyes on glass crafts, which were popular with young Japanese women at the time.
They decided to make glass craftsmanship their strategy for survival, and set up a firm called Kurogabe in cooperation with the government in 1988. They also built a glass museum and a workshop for visitors to get hands-on experience. Visitors began to increase, as did the number of shops dealing in glass crafts. From this somewhat extravagant idea, Nagahama has developed a reputation -- a brand -- as Japan's city of glass crafts. Now more than two million tourists visit every year.
It's not necessarily spectacle or size that draws tourists. I visited Kyoto, Japan's ancient former capital, with my family early last year. I want to go back, not for Kinkakuzi Temple with its sumptuous gold decorations,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or for historic sites like the magnificent Kiyomizu-dera Temple from where you can overlook downtown Kyoto,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but for the city's narrow back alleys,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], like Ninenzaka and Sannenzaka.
Lined with time-worn wooden houses, pedestrians browse souvenir shops, cafes, and noodle shops in these areas -- a chance to savor the simple grassroots culture of Japan. Ninenzaka and Sannenzaka are famous attractions, visited by Japanese as well as foreigners.
Japan is not alone. Think of the narrow streets of Dublin,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Ireland, with their brightly-painted house doors of red,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], yellow, and green... the sun-baked white buildings of Santorini, Greece... the medieval alleyways of Toledo, Spain. These residential areas and back alleys with their peculiar and distinctive cultures and atmospheres attract many visitors.
For the same reason, Insa-dong in Seoul is one of the most prominent attractions in Korea, and it leaves a deep impression on foreign visitors. That's because Insa-dong maintains its own distinctive character as a traditional Korean back alley.
Several Korean cities are promising to build super-skyscrapers with more than 100 stories or huge theme parks to rival Disneyland in an effort to foster tourism. We can build skyscrapers, but they'll still be dwarfed by the buildings in Dubai or Pudong in Shanghai. And we can build big theme parks, but they'll still never really compare to Disney World in Orlando or Disneyland in Los Angeles. We should pay attention to the small things,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], like the precious back alleys of Insa-dong, rather than just these outsized projects that take huge amounts of money and time.
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