1. Living on $2 a day
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... in the informal sector.  Thus, you make more on some days, less on others, and often get no income at all.  The government offers you very limited help, and when it does, the quality of assistance is apt ...

2. Asia`s social development
(Panorama/Society)

... social insurance, social assistance and child protection).  Japan, New Zealand and Australia are in the 16-18% of GDP range, while most countries are below the region average of 5.2%.  Basically the same ...

3. Natural disasters in Asia
(Panorama/Environment)

... cannot physically stop the occurrence of natural disasters.  But how can we reduce risk?  In short, by following page 54 of the Boy Scout Handbook: "Be Prepared"!  But while global humanitarian assistance ...

4. Living on $2 a day
(Panorama/Development)

... in the informal sector.  Thus, you make more on some days, less on others, and often get no income at all.  The government offers you very limited help, and when it does, the quality of assistance is apt ...

5. Asia's Failed States
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... highest perceived level of corruption in 2011. (viii) Uzbekistan -- 39th Although the United States recently lifted a seven-year restriction on assistance, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited ...

6. Beating global poverty?
(Panorama/Development)

... safety nets, which means that there is insufficient government assistance for the nation's poor.  A big difference with the US is that Japan has a weaker tradition of charitable and civil society organizations ...

7. Youth and development in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

... facilitating the start to a working life, and by giving young people a voice to articulate the kind of assistance they want and a chance to participate in delivering it. Second, we should develop young ...

8. Central Asia Update
(Panorama/Globalization)

... areas as economic assistance and aid is very much appealing. The EBRD projects, the EU programmes, Nordic Development Fund, and other national development agencies such as DFID, GIZ, Swiss Agency for Development ...

9. Asia's financial exodus
(Panorama/Finance)

... development assistance going into developing countries.  This means that for every $1 in economic development assistance which goes into a developing country, $10 is lost via these illicit outflows. Third, ...

10. China, Japan and South Korea FTA: Mirage or Possibility?
(Panorama/International Trade)

... countries, they have acted more ambiguously, often favouring bi-lateral agreements and official development assistance (ODA) as economic and political tools to increase their own influence regionally and ...

11. Global education in Japan
(Panorama/Society)

... issue on the global agenda.  The global community is currently negotiating possible agreements for the "mitigation" of carbon emissions, as well as providing assistance to countries for "adaptation" to ...

12. China: how powerful is she?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... the US at $47,240, and even well below that of Greece ($27,260) whose government would like Chinese assistance!   GDP per capita does not of course mean everything.  But it is a broad indicator of ...

13. OECD countries -- what are they worth now?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... now go, cap in hand, to China asking for financial assistance is the ultimate in political humiliation for the old continent.  I don't need to remind you that China is not democratic, does not respect ...

14. HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... for discussions about social justice and the global economy. How does a wealthy nation determine what they can do to alleviate global poverty? What are the ethical obligations and how can such assistance ...

15. Japan's whaling obsession
(Panorama/Environment)

... whale consumption through marketing campaigns, and school and hospital meals -- consumption of whale meat has not however been increasing.  It provides Official Development Assistance to pro-whaling Caribbean ...

16. Leadership in North East Asia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... motor for its success, its level of imports are low, inward foreign investment is puny, official assistance low and declining, and immigration is almost non-existent.  It accepted a minimal number (less ...

17. Japan's muddled development cooperation
(Panorama/Development)

... assistance to developing countries.   There was once a time, in 2000, when Japan topped the world for the value of its official development assistance (ODA).  But over the past decade, Japan’s ODA ...

18. SME financing and the crisis
(Panorama/Finance)

... great that just the other day, President Barack Obama told bankers to increase loans to SMEs. Obama said that US banks had received extraordinary assistance and demanded they show extraordinary commitment ...

19. Innovation: Not all peaches and cream
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... the benefits of globalization are shared more widely, including through adjustment assistance, they said, and underlined the importance of the OECD’s contribution in identifying policies which can help ...

20. Poverty and Indigenous Populations
(Panorama/Development)

... identification of beneficiary groups, transparent program delivery, and learning from experience.  Such CCT programs provide assistance conditioned on the beneficiary’s actions – that is, the government ...