August 22, 2008
According to the experts, Beijing's air quality is 30 percent worse than that of smoggy Los Angeles. But as Associate Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward explains, the same economic development that dirties China's air also lifts tens of millions of people a year out of poverty and into the middle class.
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