1. China's foreign investment
(Panorama/Investment)

... have not spent years reducing the ownership of sectors of the economy by our own governments, only to see them bought and controlled by foreign governments instead." The US government now has to consider ...

2. Asian Migration
(Panorama/Migration)

... breath, and food security problems. There are also signs that the growing boom in the energy sectors in the US, Canada and Australia is attracting Asian migrants away from their present bases in the ...

3. Globalization, the word
(Panorama/Globalization)

... spending power.” “Cosmopolitanism is no longer the monopoly of the intellectual and leisure classes; it is becoming the established property and defining characteristic of all sectors everywhere in the ...

4. Singapore in the Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... pollution with large, highly populated countries, in which the industrial sector is still the major source of revenue. In summary, as far as environmental concerns, I can say that Singapore fares rather ...

5. Japan in the Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... to protect certain markets and sectors, preventing them from advancing and developing. While most other developed nations are based around a service economy, Japan lacks a powerful service industry. ...

6. Living on $2 a day
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... in the informal sector.  Thus, you make more on some days, less on others, and often get no income at all.  The government offers you very limited help, and when it does, the quality of assistance is apt ...

7. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... comes from the agricultural sector, the highest of all Asia-Pacific countries, and 70 per cent of the population is employed in agriculture (as development proceeds, countries usually see a relative decline ...

8. Asia's information society
(Panorama/Society)

... movements like the Arab Spring and the second People Power Movement in the Philippines have been facilitated by ICT.  Advanced countries tend to have the most developed ICT sectors.  But governments ...

9. Asia's low quality jobs
(Panorama/Society)

... in 2008, as 714 million were lifted out of poverty.  And yet, over this same period, the share of Asian workers in low quality employment (in the "informal sector") only declined slightly from 69% to 67%, ...

10. Natural disasters in Asia
(Panorama/Environment)

... with economies focused on one sector like tourism or a single crop, can see a 10-15% decline in GDP from a single disaster. Almost half the deaths from natural disasters in Asia during the last 10 years ...

11. Asia's rising inequality
(Panorama/Society)

... moves from the rural/traditional to the urban/modern sector, and the assumption that the per capita income of the latter sector is assumed to be always higher than the former.  At the beginning of the ...

12. Japan's governance problems
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... role of government in a poor country should be to build physical infrastructure, provide its population with a basic education, open up markets and provide coordination for major private sector investments.  ...

13. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Development)

... comes from the agricultural sector, the highest of all Asia-Pacific countries, and 70 per cent of the population is employed in agriculture (as development proceeds, countries usually see a relative decline ...

14. 2012 Conference of Montreal
(Panorama/Globalization)

... in the health sector, the equitable use of resources, welcoming immigrants, the free trade agreements and sustainable development. The 150 international speakers will include: Alan Greenspan, former ...

15. Living on $2 a day
(Panorama/Development)

... in the informal sector.  Thus, you make more on some days, less on others, and often get no income at all.  The government offers you very limited help, and when it does, the quality of assistance is apt ...

16. Trying to do business in China
(Panorama/Investment)

... between English and Chinese, and you should have your own translater. There are two broad categories of foreign investment in China -- wholly foreign-owned enterprise or equity joint ventures.  The sectoral ...

17. World Economy in Grave Danger
(Panorama/Globalization)

... reforms to the US banking sector, as well as the sertious cooperation undertaken by the G20 group. But the most interesting talk was in the corridors.  Something more radical is needed to save Greece ...

18. India's urban squalor
(Panorama/Society)

The movement of people from rural to urban areas (urbanization) and from low-productivity agriculture to the manufacturing and services sectors is, in theory, an important part of the economic development ...

19. State capitalism
(Panorama/Investment)

... the past decade or so with the rise of state-owned or controlled enterprises.  These enterprises are backed by the state, but behave like private-sector multinationals.  The leading practitioner of state ...

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

... not kept on their balance sheets.  This investment is fuelled by finance from a state-controlled banking sector. This situation comes about because the Chinese government suppresses consumption in favour ...