In my daily morning perusal through various blogs and website links, I came across the following project put out by New York-based Human Rights Watch: China's Olympian Human Rights Challenges. Under the 'Reports' section, one can find a decently-sized collection of annual reports from 1996-2008 on issues ranging from state control of religion, Tibetan exiles, China's HIV/AIDS population and, of course, debate over human rights violations in the run-up to the Olympics. Definitely worth a look!
On a somewhat unrelated manner, the folks over at the World Bank's PSD blog have an interesting post on the place of supermarkets in spurring development. This, as commentary on Reardon and Gulati's recent policy brief, The Supermarket Revolution in Developing Countries. I wonder how many times the word "Wal-mart" appears in that one….