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

... economic growth the past two decades, this will not been sufficient to enable India to achieve most of the Millenium Development Goals by 2015.  Indeed, an alarming 80% of Indians live on less than $2 ...

22. State capitalism
(Panorama/Investment)

... a few decades ago).  The Chinese state is the biggest shareholder in the country's 150 biggest companies and guides and goads thousands more.  In particular, it directs money to favored industries and ...

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

... market rate for their loans and land.  And China could have achieved the same rate of economic growth over the past three decades with half the rate of investment, had that investment been undertaken by ...

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

... The influx in the 1990s of foreign investment in manufacturing in many coastal cities, and the resulting real estate boom, has largely driven China's ecoonomic growth for the past couple of decades. Town ...

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

Japan's economy has been in a deep funk for two decades.  China is in desperate need of a new economic and political model.  At the same time, Korea keeps going from strength to strength, and is on track ...

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

... be easy, it is essential for China to become a modern, harmonious, and creative high-income society. China's economic performance these past three decades has been spectacular.  Annual GDP growth rate ...

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

... to win is specialization and excellence in a few clearly defined core strengths, to build a competitive advantage over global competitors. And after decades of economic stagnation, many Japanese corporations ...

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

Japan's very strong economic growth from the 1950s through to the 1980s was a virtual miracle.  Its stagnation for the past two decades seems a mystery.  How did it all happen? In the period up to ...

29. Poverty in India
(Panorama/Development)

Over the past two decades, India has become one of the stars of the world economy thanks to its rapid growth.  At the same time, India will not manage to realize the Millennium Development Goal of reducing ...

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

... economy has been in a deep funk for two decades.  Japan never made the transition to a domestic-demand and innovation-driven economy.  Rather it spent its way to a massive public debt, and failed to prepare ...

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

China has emerged rapidly as a global economic power.  It is the world's leading exporter, with the world's second biggest economy which has been growing by around 10% annually for over three decades. ...

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

... Chinese Communist Party. President HU Jintao and Premier WEN Jiabao are forever highlighting the risk that corruption presents to the Party. The Party has evolved greatly over the decades, and the days ...

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

... two “Asian elephants” will become a cornerstone element in Russia’s foreign policy in Asia for the next decades or even centuries. This year Russia is hosting the 24th APEC Summit in Vladivostok in the ...

34. Human security in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... want, the freedom from fear, and the freedom to take actions on one's own behalf. Over the past couple of decades, human security analysis has come to the fore in light of terrorist attacks, civil war, ...

35. 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 ...

36. Human development in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... but also clearly ahead of Sub-Saharan Africa. Over the past three decades, both developing East Asia and the Pacific, and South Asia are the regions with the fastest rates of improvement, about a 1.4% ...

37. Beating global poverty?
(Panorama/Development)

... to extraordinary reductions in poverty in China and its neighbors.  These past three decades, East Asia has gone from having a much higher rate of poverty than sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia to having ...

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

... shows that it is easier said that done.  In recent decades, only a handful of the world's developing countries, mainly in East Asia, have made much progress in catching up to the US.  And many of those ...

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

...  These past few decades, the Asia-Pacific region has undergone the most rapid economic transformation that any part of the world has ever seen.  In this context, the region's youth are very much a bridging ...

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

... costly ageing process which drives up health and pension costs.  The decades long option of raising the nation's consumption tax now has a head of steam (and may cost the head of the prime minister), but ...