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

... Agency Agreement in cooperation with the Russian satellite navigation system. Another big umbrella of agreements was achieved in the Integrated Long-Term Program of Cooperation in Science and Technology, ...

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

... geese. A financial crisis would push India to start economic reform in the early 1990s.  This opening up enabled India to exploit its comparative advantage in information technology, substantially acquired ...

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

... have been beneficial to China in terms of providing export revenues and helping China lift its production standards and absorb foreign technology.  But these subsidies are now becoming costly as they sidetrack ...

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

... in science and technology, in particular: First, successful cases of catchup have involved considerable movement of people, both citizens of the backward country going abroad to learn and then returning, ...

25. Gender equality and development
(Panorama/Society)

... who have died young as a result of discriminatory access to health care or nutrition, or have been killed as infants, or were never born due to sex-selective abortions, a grotesque perversion of technology.  ...

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

... interests holding back reform? As the Chinese economy pulls further ahead, Japan will become more and more an economic dependency of China which needs its technology and high quality products.  China's ...

27. Asia’s Development and the Leadership Issue
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... paramount importance of rapid growth to eliminate extreme poverty conditions and climb the technology ladder. At present, Asian political and economic actors should equally realize that for sound economic ...

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

... and aid from wealthier Arab states and OECD nations to help provide technology, such as more efficient irrigation and recycling systems. Fourth, raising investment and providing sources of funding is ...

29. 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 ...

30. SINO-INDIAN ECONOMIC STRATEGIC DIALOGUE: BEYOND THE BEIJING ROUND
(Panorama/International Trade)

... 2010, is likely to grow further. What is more disturbing is the slow growth of exports to China, and little progress in addressing long-persisting difficulties in diversifying exports in information technology, ...

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

... have been beneficial to China in terms of providing export revenues and helping China lift its production standards and absorb foreign technology.  But the subsidies are costly in that they sidetrack China's ...

32. Questions on Japan
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... workers have a very strong work ethic.  The greatest economic strength of Japan is in the development of manufacturing high technology, including for energy efficiency and environmental protection.  Following ...

33. Global education in Japan
(Panorama/Society)

... is now emerging as one of the greatest challenges on the global agenda.  It seems that the combination of open markets, information and communications technology, and weak governance in many countries ...

34. Chinese investment is coming fast
(Panorama/Investment)

... strategy to improve the security of natural resource supply (notably for minerals and food), to gain access to new markets, to acquire technology, brands and know-how, and to improve domestic competitiveness.  ...

35. Central and Eastern Europe, and Germany
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... point of view. Germany is the major European destination of Russian energy resources, and it an indispensable supplier of the technology the Kremlin needs for its economic modernization efforts. What's more, ...

36. Is an Asian Century Possible?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... close reading of this report, there seems to be lots of pessimism. The report highlights the process of economic catchup, where economies are essentially absorbing knowledge and technology from the rest ...

37. Japan's stunted economy
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... Education Supplement (THES), the world's leading universities are in the US (places like California Institute of Technology, Harvard, Stanford and Princeton), and the UK (Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial ...

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

... opportunities and challenges of the Asian Century for Australia; opportunities for a significant deepening of our engagement with Asia across the board, including in the economy, science and technology ...

39. America's Pacific Century
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... on open US markets and technology.  But there is much more to do to strengthen and consolidate this important economic partnership.  Clinton highlights the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement which will ...

40. Steve Jobs, the true Mr Globalization
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... in curiosity, and out of curiosity comes everything".  He even worried about the future of boredom -- "All the technology stuff is wonderful, but having nothing to do can be wonderful, too". As we reflect ...