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

... Burma any more), and it is not clear that even China appreciates this friendship. In a way China is closer to the US than to any other country through its trade and finance linkages.  The Cold War was ...

22. Urbanization in Asia -- 12 things to know in 2012
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... on water supply, sanitation, waste management, and urban transport; and urban shelter programs of slum upgrading, land development, housing, and housing finance. Source: ADB Strategy 2020: Working for ...

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

... they are subsidized in many ways -- cheap land, energy, finance, tax breaks, low wages -- and they are also subsidized by China's exchange rate which is kept artificially low. These subsized exports ...

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

... hamburgers at McDonalds are low-skilled, many service jobs require the highest of skills -- in sectors like finance, health, education, research, engineering, telecommunications, logistics, and so on. ...

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

... to offshore production to elsewhere in Asia in response to the high yen, a competitive services sector (75 per cent of the economy) is necessary in areas from finance to retail to take the lead in the ...

26. How the Philippines benefits from Australia's booming links with China
(Panorama/International Trade)

... customer relations, information technology, back-office support and form processing, finance and human resources. In this context, the Philippines has emerged as the top offshoring destination for Australian ...

27. 2012 -- a time to prepare for the long haul
(Panorama/Globalization)

... on unsustainable finances in a number of other euro economies. Euro governments have spent a year or more trying to play catch-up.  As they persist in negotiating among themselves, they are in fact trying ...

28. China's rebalancing imperative
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... they are subsidized in many ways -- cheap land, energy, finance, tax breaks, low wages -- and they are also subsidized by China's exchange rate which is kept artificially low. These subsized exports ...

29. Innovating out of crisis
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... improving access to finance; providing education and training for entrepreneurship, especially to engineers and other technicians who have entrepreneurial aspirations; and promoting partnerships between ...

30. OECD and Asia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, India, and Indonesia.  Many of these Asian countries are also major players in the areas of investment, finance, carbon emissions, etc, and school ...

31. Global education in Japan
(Panorama/Society)

... I taught in the Faculty of Liberal Arts all dealt with various aspects of "globalization".  These courses included Issues in Economic Development, International Trade, International Finance, Economic Development, ...

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

... give the Chinese government finance for overseas investment, both economically and politically motivated. But these foreign exchange reserves are a costly investment, as they earn a very low rate of ...

33. Australia: Beware of the Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... for resource super profits tax. There is quite rightly lots of talk about creating a sovereign wealth fund for Australia's future.  And this should be financed by a resource super profits tax.  It ...

34. Occupy Wall Street
(Panorama/Society)

... like finance, consulting, computer design, that is, the higher skilled areas.  But this employment expansion was almost entirely offset by reductions in lower value added manufacturing employment, as these ...

35. Time for the Asia-Pacific region to lead
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... the Asia-Pacific region to show if it can lead the global economy.    Footnotes: (1)          This G20 was initially a group of finance ministers and central bank governors established following ...

36. What's wrong with Japan?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... refuse to finance the relocation, leaving everyone and everything where they are now.     More fundamentally, Japan needs to get more realistic about the security situation in North East as China greatly ...

37. America's debt crisis -- making sense of the debate
(Panorama/Finance)

... by Congress to issue debt to finance federal government deficits provided that a ceiling, determined by Congress, is not exceeded. Now that financing the US deficit is hitting the present celing of $14.3 ...

38. Japan's strangulation by taxation
(Panorama/Finance)

...    Coming back to the present, the reconstruction of all the areas damaged by the triple disaster will be expensive.  There is an emerging consensus that it cannot be financed by even further additions ...

39. Globalization, war and peace
(Panorama/Globalization)

... an occasion when he was Australia's finance minister some 20 years ago, and when his Japanese counterpart, Kiichi Miyazawa, asked him whether "the Chinese would attack us".  This symbolized the complete ...

40. The old world’s ageing companies
(Panorama/Investment)

... in banking and finance; 17 per cent in manufacturing; 14 per cent in oil, gas and mining; 13 per cent in consumer products and services; and 10 per cent in energy services and utilities;   -- For the ...