41. Is China's economy in the balance?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... growth may be misleading. Few pause to ask why these GDP numbers are so inconsistent with the prevailing impression that households have been indulging in a buying spree for years. How can one reconcile ...

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

... prices of a basket of food commodities, peaked at the beginning of 2011. Unrest has been simmering south of the Sahara as well. Before the Arab Spring, riots erupted in a number of African countries ...

43. Aborigines' first contact with modernity
(Panorama/Culture)

... style. Reference: Turbet, Peter.  The First Frontier: the occupation of the Sydney region, 1788 to 1816. http://www.isbs.com/partnumber.asp?cid=27358&pnid=332118  ...

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

... China into second place for the highest number of international tourists to Australia. Chinese foreign direct investment is also making its mark in Australia.  While the stock of foreign direct investment ...

45. Measuring up Asia's economy
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... of the regional population in poverty. In absolute terms, the numbers of the poverty-stricken in the region declined from about 1.6 billion in 1990 to 0.9 billion in 2008, while the total population grew ...

46. 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 ...

47. Australia to the UN Security Council?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... from 1975 to 1983 not only continued these Labor policies, but reinforced them.  A major initiative was embracing Vietnamese refugees, a large number of whom were welcomed as migrants. The Hawke and ...

48. New global thinking needed
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... thus refreshing that think tanks are exploding in number in the BRICS, as indicated in the recent report by the University of Pennsylvania. The Global Go To Think Tanks Report 2011 provides an excellent ...

49. Asia's financial exodus
(Panorama/Finance)

... at a time when large numbers of Chinese citizens do not have adequate housing. As we have suggested in other articles, China may be a lot more fragile than many people think.   References: Illicit ...

50. IMF and Asia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

Almost 15 years after botching up the Asian financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund is still persona non grata in Asia.  Presumably that is why the IMF's new number 2, David Lipton, was sent ...