41. Innovation in Japan?
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... innovator.  It mainly imitated and improved products and processes that had been developed by other countries.  This took place in large scale operations in companies, and within closed networks of companies, ...

42. Trade’s developmental magic
(Panorama/International Trade)

... provokes structural change.  You just have to adjust.   Back when international trade theory was first developed.  Factories in each country typically produced the totality of a product.  Toyota or ...

43. Why Asia needs better developed bond markets?
(Panorama/Finance)

Ever since the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, the region has been saying that it needs better developed local currency bond markets.  But while much progress has been, it is most certainly not sufficient.     ...

44. Urbanization and labor markets in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

... like China and India.  Michael Todaro has developed a refined version of the Lewis model based on expected rather than actual wages differentials between the country and the city. -- Urbanization ...

45. New Structural Economics and Development
(Panorama/Development)

... developed its power resources to the utmost”.   In this context, the market-failure thesis became the core of development economics after World War II.  Economists advocated that the state should overcome ...

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

... and dynamic. For example, Microsoft may be a software giant today, but it started off in typical SME fashion, as a dream developed by a young student with the help of family and friends.   More close ...

47. Inequality in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... measure of income inequality is the “Gini coefficient” developed by Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini.  The Gini coefficient is a measure of the inequality of a distribution, a value of ...

48. Poverty reduction and development in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... that girls and boys reach the last grade of primary education, in reducing child mortality, in improving maternal health provision and in providing basic sanitation.  Moreover, the region’s 14 least developed ...

49. An Asian Century?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... really explored thoroughly is the case of Japan, Asia's most developed economy, whose GDP per capita is still about one-third lower than the US and the advanced economies of northern Europe.  Whille many ...

50. Press Freedom in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

The reduction these past few decades in the number of Asia's citizens living in absolute poverty (that is, under $1.25 a day) is astounding.  But how developed is Asia really when freedom of the press ...