21. China's urbanization
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... on the former Soviet Union.  This involved a movement of workers out of the agricultural sector, and into the cities.  By 1960, China's urban population had jumped to about 20%. This massive expansion ...

22. Korea -- Asia's rising star
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... universities to rewarding the acquisition of skills demanded by firms.  Like Japan before it, and China today, Korea has focused its development on the manufacturing sector, and forgotten the importance ...

23. China's reform challenges
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... to shift even more to private sector development, ensuring that markets are mature enough to allocate resources efficiently and that firms are strong and innovative enough to compete internationally.  ...

24. Why did Japan stop growing?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... the value of the yen. This led to a hollowing out of much of its manufacturing sector.  For example, motor vehicle producers shifted production to export markets, including in the US and EU.  And labor-intensive ...

25. Poverty in India
(Panorama/Development)

... services and manufacturing sectors.     The first group substantially excluded from the benefits of growth are the three-quarters of Indians who live in rural areas, the majority of which work in the ...

26. Innovation Asia
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... the world, or new to a sector or market, or new to an agent. Importantly, non-technological innovations are increasingly vital, such as new organizational forms, new marketing approaches, successful design, ...

27. Russia and the East
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... China’s raw material supplier. Almost all big joint projects between these two counties in the last years were in energy sector building oil and gas pipelines from Siberia to China’s borders. This type ...

28. Human security in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... while unemployment is not a major problem in Asia, over 60% of developing Asia's workforce is in the informal sector where they have very few protections and rights.  Human and labor rights abuses are ...

29. Reassessing Asia's economic miracle
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... sectors, when these sectors have been somewhat forgoten in governments' drive to buildup efficient, export-oriented manufacturing sectors. (ii) how to reduce reliance on Western export markets and make ...

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

... by reducing water availability and quality from surface and groundwater sources, while water demand for household and industrial use may simultaneously increase as temperatures rise. Source: ADB Sector ...

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

... in favor of the manufacturing sector, leaving the agricultural sector backward in many areas and the services sector stunted in its development.  Further, since the lion's share of China's exports target ...

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

As countries navigate the path from poverty to prosperity, they typically experience a relative decline in their agricultural sectors, a shift towards manufacturing, and then a rise of their services sectors. ...

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

... areas, urban slums and ethnic and language minorities are much less likely to complete the full education cycle.  Many young people work in the informal sector with poor working conditions and inadequate ...

34. Gender equality and development
(Panorama/Society)

... against women working in certain sectors or occupations could increase labor productivity by as much as 25 per cent in some countries. If women have greater control over household resources, this can ...

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

... have not gone away. In contrast to the highly competitive, export-oriented manufacturing sector, Japan's service and agricultural sectors suffer from low productivity.  And as manufacturing Japan continues ...

36. Emerging Asia's precarious middle class
(Panorama/Society)

... transparency from the public sector, apply pressure for economic reforms, and lay the foundation for a transition to democracy as in the cases of Korea and Taiwan.  Middle class values can also be conducive ...

37. Competing with China?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... of competing with China.  We are both specialising in different sectors, and gain from this trade.  In fact, the gains from trade are greatest when trade is between countries which are different.  It is ...

38. Central Asia Update
(Panorama/Globalization)

... and heavily subsidized by other sectors, including even agriculture, while the quality of the products is not competitive in international market. Farmers in Uzbekistan are forced to sell their harvest ...

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

... only employs at this stage about 1 per cent of the Philippine work force, it is now the country's fastest growing sector.  Together with the rise of creative process outsourcing (such as 3D animation, ...

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

... to living in urban areas, and a similar movement out of the agricultural to manufacturing and service sectors. In 2010, 43% of the Asia-Pacific population lived in urban areas, the second lowest urban ...