41. Multidimensional poverty
(Panorama/Development)

... Poverty Index estimated by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) is based on the multiple "deprivations" that a poor person faces with respect to education, health and living standards. ...

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

... wars.  They are messy and never ending, and requiring nation-building and humanitarian intervention.  Terrorism is now being better tackled by good intelligence, good police work, drones and targeted killings. ...

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

... Philippines.  A number of Asian economies are also very active in the export of health and education services. And while human services like health and education can strengthen the economy, they also ...

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

... as the US. There are many factors which can facilitate the catchup or convergence process such as better policy and institutional frameworks, openness to trade and investment, and improvements in human ...

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

... humanities and social sciences.  "Grand Stakes: Australia's Future Between China and India", Rory Medcalf, Senior Research Fellow, Indian Strategic Affairs, School of Social Sciences, UNSW. http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/so-what/ ...

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

... us in its 2007 World Development Report. First, we should broaden the opportunities for developing human capital by expanding access to and improving the quality of education and health services, by ...

47. 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 ...

48. Human dignity, water and revolutions in Africa
(Panorama/Development)

This week's invited contributor is Andrew Wigley, a public affairs consultant and researcher, from Stellenbosch University in South Africa.  As he analyses the issue of human dignity, water and revolutions ...

49. 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 ...

50. 2012 -- a time to prepare for the long haul
(Panorama/Globalization)

... political tensions due to the wide income gap between rich and poor, labour unrest, human rights' abuses, rampant corruption, land grabs, and environmental damage.  Thus, with a change of leadership coming ...

51. Globalization
(Category)

If the truth be known, we have been living globalization for an awefully long time. Humankind started its long march out of Africa and across the globe around 50,000 years ago. Trade routes like the Silk ...

52. Migration
(Category)

... is perhaps the oldest dimension of globalisation. Migrants are the human face of globalization... Read more  ...

53. Culture
(Category)

... say will change them". True, cultural diversity is deep.  It is the product of the first great divergence in the history of humankind... Read more  ...