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Green Construction Why rich foreign investors are financing DC's …
Washington City Paper (blog)
Twenty-five million dollars of the financing for the development of the $520 million Marriott Marquis came via a federal visa program called EB-5. Through it, foreigners can trade job-creating investments in American projects for green cards. In other …

Building Golf Courses in China: An Illegal and Booming Industry
Businessweek
… is a barometer for this change and the country's rapid economic rise, but it is also symbolic of the less glamorous realities of a nation's awkward and arduous evolution from developing to developed: corruption, environmental neglect, disputes over …