1. China's foreign investment
(Panorama/Investment)

... the second, service firms followed those resource pioneers. And the most recent wave has been targeting new technology, brands, management skills, and customers in advanced markets. Indeed, outward FDI ...

2. Globalization and the challenges of our youth
(Panorama/Society)

... a truly global economy, "economic globalization".  Many Latin American countries emerged from their debt crisis, opened markets and stablized their economies.  South Africa abolished apartheid.  Following ...

3. Globalization, the word
(Panorama/Globalization)

... for the Harvard Business Review entitled “The Globalization of Markets”?   We will never really know who invented the word “globalization”.  The word could have rolled off anyone’s lips.  It is a word ...

4. Japan in the Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... hindering growth. Free and open markets are a key to economic growth; following the law of comparative advantage, each nation should specialize in what it produces most efficiently. Japan, however, continues ...

5. India's paradoxes
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... of Indian nuclear weapons. The "land of Bhārata" leads the emerging world in terms of multinational companies dominating international markets.  Tata with its over 100 operating companies in communications ...

6. Microfinance today
(Panorama/Finance)

... Pradesh, India, when large numbers of suicides were committed by micro-borrowers. Andhra Pradesh had been one of the largest microfinance markets, and due to irresponsible actions by the banks, suffered ...

7. Food security in Asia
(Panorama/Environment)

... rice -- staple crops for much of the world -- made matters worse, disrupting markets and harming both producers and consumers.  The 2007-2008 food price crisis pushed 44 million people globally below ...

8. Japan's governance problems
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... role of government in a poor country should be to build physical infrastructure, provide its population with a basic education, open up markets and provide coordination for major private sector investments.  ...

9. Sen on development on youtube
(Panorama/Development)

... society; (iii) flourishing markets are necessary, but in some instances, must be restrained.  (iv) we must also have redress against markets, when things go wrong -- in this context, freedom of information ...

10. China: is “state capitalism” in crisis?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... outcome”. Such a system combines great openness towards international trade and markets with a strong political leverage on domestic economy.  Bremmer argues that the Chinese model is not only bearing ...

11. India's paradoxes
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... of Indian nuclear weapons. The "land of Bhārata" leads the emerging world in terms of multinational companies dominating international markets.  Tata with its over 100 operating companies in communications ...

12. The Economist on China
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... from implicit subsidies, sheltered markets and politically encouraged loans.  Another driver of investment has been infrastructure ventures under the control of provincial or municipal authorities, but ...

13. Women's economic opportunity in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

... and training; women's legal and social status; and the general business environment.  Sweden, Belgium and Norway are the top 3 countries.  These countries have particularly open labor markets for women, ...

14. China's reform challenges
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... to shift even more to private sector development, ensuring that markets are mature enough to allocate resources efficiently and that firms are strong and innovative enough to compete internationally.  ...

15. Japanese business -- from old to new Japan
(Panorama/Investment)

... some 20% of Japanese manufacturing is located outside Japan (for cars, it is 51%; for electronics it is over 30%).  So while Japanese companies export less from home, they still reach foreign markets and ...

16. Why did Japan stop growing?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... markets in the US and elsewhere.  Again, like China, a fixed and under-valued exchange rate helped gave Japan a competitive edge.  But financial globalization and the collapse of the fixed exchange rate ...

17. Australia: beware of Asian Century Hype
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... itself for the burden of an ageing population.  Most other Asian countries face more difficult challenges as they need to rebalance their growth away from Western export markets at an earlier stage in ...

18. Innovation Asia
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... as China and India to access global talent and take advantage of their proximity to target markets, and lower costs. As a result, developing countries are benefiting from new products and services that ...

19. Russia and the East
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... talks with ASEAN on various aspects of economic cooperation and political and security issues. Russia’s goals here are similar to what in the APEC - to open new markets, and try to link its Far East region ...

20. Reassessing Asia's economic miracle
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... maintaining an undervalued exchange rate, protecting the local market, providing first class infrastructure, and educated and training its diligent work force.  Open markets in the US and Europe also played ...