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

... good for everyone on the upside, it is now dragging everyone down, including Asia.  The effect on international trade, investment and finance has been strong. A better managed globalization must be part ...

2. Globalization, the word
(Panorama/Globalization)

... opening of borders to increasingly fast flows of goods, services, finance, people and ideas across international borders; and the changes in institutional and policy regimes at the international and national ...

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

... IT, bio-technology, and finance. Japan must advance in order to grow, and the best way to advance is to invent and create new ideas that can be exported to the rest of the world. Globalization is crucial ...

4. America's Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... engineering, medicine and finance.  In 2010, Asian students accounted for 25 per cent of the 48,069 research doctorates granted at US universities, notably in fields like engineering, math and computer ...

5. China's reform in a bind
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... on the great benefits that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) enjoy -- benefits like virtual exemption from paying taxes and dividends, privileged access to bank finance, and artificially low prices for their ...

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

... $2 in his pocket to deal with anything that might befall him on the road. Hamid and Khadeja are also borrowers, with a debt of $153 to a microfinance institution and interest-free private debts from family, ...

7. Microfinance today
(Panorama/Finance)

This week's invited contributor is Cornell University's Lila Nojima who has shared with us an interesting piece on microfinance. As Lila says, microfinance is one of the major buzz words in both the ...

8. China's reform in a bind
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... on the great benefits that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) enjoy -- benefits like virtual exemption from paying taxes and dividends, privileged access to bank finance, and artificially low prices for their ...

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

... $2 in his pocket to deal with anything that might befall him on the road. Hamid and Khadeja are also borrowers, with a debt of $153 to a microfinance institution and interest-free private debts from family, ...

10. America's Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... engineering, medicine and finance.  In 2010, Asian students accounted for 25 per cent of the 48,069 research doctorates granted at US universities, notably in fields like engineering, math and computer ...

11. Views of Asia's next generation
(Panorama/Society)

... engineering, information technology, and finance that literally did not exist a generation ago. But what are the worries of Asia's youth, and what are their ideas for solving Asia's many challenges? ...

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

... not kept on their balance sheets.  This investment is fuelled by finance from a state-controlled banking sector. This situation comes about because the Chinese government suppresses consumption in favour ...

13. China's urbanization
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... debts as they mortgage municipal landholdings to finance infrastructure through loans from commercial banks. There have been two main drivers of urbanization.  First, there is rural-urban migration.  ...

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

... a male family member. In this context, the EIU seeks to measure women economic opportunity through its index made up of the following components: labor policy and practice; access to finance; education ...

15. Korea -- Asia's rising star
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... burden on workers to finance social spending.  To counter population ageing, it is essential to offer more work opportunities for women, whose participation in the work force is the third lowest in the ...

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

... the US, UK and Canada did at a similar level of development. Let's explore some of the reasons why Japan stopped growing.  Allocating finance through relationships between government, banks and industry ...

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

... and become global centres of finance, business and culture.  But the cases of Kolkata, Djakarta, Dhaka and Manila to name just a few show the downside of urbanisation.  Their vast swathes of slums and ...

18. China's lack of global leadership
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... play a more active role.  First, although China has many things to gripe about in the global system it is still a great beneficiary of the system of open trade, investment and finance, and it does not ...

19. Is China cracking?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... case. Bo is "princeling", being the son of Bo Yibo, who was a finance minister under Mao.  The charismatic and ambitious Bo has had a star-studded career with postings as governor of Liaoning province, ...

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

... And imported capital goods also played a role through the access to technologies embodied in them.  Export revenues created a virtuous circle as they boosted savings which were then used to finance investment ...