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

... and the "Cultural Revolution", China's rate of urbanization fell back to 15-16%.  Then urbanization recommenced in earnest when the government started opening up to the global economy, beginning with the ...

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

... make profits which come back to head office -- like when Toyota produces a car in Kentucky, or when Bridgestone makes a tire in Thailand to sell it in India.  Japan has in fact been a leader in the globalization ...

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

... engage in an outright default on its debt.   The failure to deregulate the services sector, a potential growth sector for a mature economy, has also held the economy back.  Japan has heavy government ...

24. Asia's uneven development
(Panorama/Development)

... Laos, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Lastly, a very important MDG is reducing the trend decline in forest cover.  While Asia as a whole has already met this goal, much of South East Asia is going backwards, ...

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

... It may also be the result of almost accidental altercations which escalate rapidly, and which are hard to wind back because of the risk of loss of face. This behavior is most regrettable because ...

26. Innovation Asia
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... because less advanced countries can absorb and assimilate knowledge and technology from other countries (a benefit of backwardness).  But even less advanced countries need to be innovative in assimilating ...

27. Human security in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... the global economy.  The 1997 Asian financial crisis also highlighted the Asia's vulnerability to volatile capital flows which flooded into the region, only to rush straight back out again. Further, ...

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

... though unequally, among Asian peoples. Now, as we look back on several decades of dramatic economic growth, how do we assess East Asia's performance, and what are the main challenges looking ahead? Let's ...

29. Human development in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... about expanding people's freedoms, capabilities and choices. Back in 1990, the UNDP launched its "human development index (HDI)".  It is a summary composite index that measures a country's average achievements ...

30. China: recent political developments
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... in the context of the upcoming change of leadership in China. The economic background of this event has not however been sufficiently highlighted.   Chongqing was and still is the model for a fundamental ...

31. Asian Century Hype
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... Asia is exploiting the benefit of backwardness.  And with a population four times that of the West, the Asian economy should be vastly bigger than the West. Will China and the rest of Asia fully catch ...

32. America and China: Asia's great powers
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... thoughts to share. It is useful to go back to the end of the Cold War to see how we arrived here.  It was thought that world peace had broken out, a new world order had arrived.  The first war of the ...

33. Whither China's economy?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... in favor of the manufacturing sector, leaving the agricultural sector backward in many areas and the services sector stunted in its development.  Further, since the lion's share of China's exports target ...

34. Asia's services challenges
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... just stand alone.  It is a backbone sector with very important linkages with the rest of the economy.  For example, many high-tech manufacturing activities and Asia's complex manufacturing supply chains ...

35. Will China overtake the US?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... in science and technology, in particular: First, successful cases of catchup have involved considerable movement of people, both citizens of the backward country going abroad to learn and then returning, ...

36. An Indo-Pacific Strategy for Australia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... back 20 years, it is on track to become the world's third biggest economy.  It is presently Australia's fourth biggest export destination, but it could overtake Korea in the near future, and even Japan ...

37. Japan's triple crisis -- one year on?
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... interests holding back reform? As the Chinese economy pulls further ahead, Japan will become more and more an economic dependency of China which needs its technology and high quality products.  China's ...

38. Emerging Asia's precarious middle class
(Panorama/Society)

... to possible increases in food or energy prices, or other economic crises, and is at great risk of falling back out of the middle class into poverty.  At the same time, if economic progress continues, the ...

39. Asia’s Development and the Leadership Issue
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... Sony’s Akio Morita to Wipro’s Azim Premji, from Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew to Korea’s Park Chung Hee, inspiring leaders were the backbone of the early stages of each Asian economy, as Michael Schuman writes ...

40. Breaking time for the BRICs?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... about O'Neill's analysis.  Way back in 1997, the OECD produced a very similar report, "The World in 2020", which focused on the "Big 5" of Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and Russia, each of which then ...