Salient to Investors:

Australian study finds China’s one-child policy has produced adults that with personality traits unsuited for starting businesses or managing companies. Those born after the 1979 one-child policy were more pessimistic, nervous, less conscientious, less competitive, more risk averse, and 23 percent less prone to choose an occupation with business risk.

Study author Lisa Cameron at Monash University said trust is an important component of social capital and an important basis for all sorts of commercial transactions and interactions.

Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-10/china-s-one-child-policy-yields-adults-fearing-risk.html.

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