21. India's paradoxes
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... biotech employer, with a presence in 75 countries.   Suzlon is the world's third largest supplier of wind turbines, spread across 21 countries.  The list could go on.  Then there is Bollywood, which is ...

22. State capitalism
(Panorama/Investment)

... to strengthen the state and its elite members, rather than to serve the welfare of citizens and society, and thus may contain the seeds of its own destruction. State capitalism seems like an oxymoron.  ...

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

... and the "Cultural Revolution", China's rate of urbanization fell back to 15-16%.  Then urbanization recommenced in earnest when the government started opening up to the global economy, beginning with the ...

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

... In this regard, China also has a long reform agenda if it wants to avoid the "middle income trap" and go on to becoming a high income country.  This reform agenda includes: (a) Strengthening the foundation ...

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

... now represents over 200% of GDP.  Then came the triple whammy of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis which knocked the country over again.  By 2010, Japan's nominal GDP was lower that that of 1994. ...

26. Poverty in India
(Panorama/Development)

... boosted growth.  Then the US dot.com crisis about a decade ago enticed many Indian IT workers based in the US to return home, providing a boost for the country's IT outsourcing industry.  Thus, despite ...

27. Is China cracking?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... from academics, writers, artists and journalists, some of whom are in jail, under house arrest or in exile overseas.  Then there is the vast, scattered array of protests by peasants against land grabs ...

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

... of the SCO, Russian then-President Dmitry Medvedev proposed further enlargement of the organization, inviting India as a member country. In his article Putin wrote that growing political partnership with ...

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

... And imported capital goods also played a role through the access to technologies embodied in them.  Export revenues created a virtuous circle as they boosted savings which were then used to finance investment ...

30. Asian Century Hype
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... states, especially Venice.  Western Europe then overtook China (the leading Asian economy) in per capita GDP in the 14th century. Western Europe then continued its rise thanks to Portugal, Spain, and ...

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

... Kurds.  And then came the counter-insurgency wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  The US has been scarred by these endeavors, and has already left Afghanistan mentally.  The US approach to Libya, a limited liability ...

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

... and that the government won't be able to pump the economy up again in response to the weakening of European export markets. Then there are the bulls who argue that the Chinese government still has plenty ...

33. 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. ...

34. Is Australia merely America's poodle in the Asia-Pacific?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... basically identified China has a threat. In this context, Australia has agreed to a major strengthening in its long-term alliance with the US by buying 12 new submarines and allowing the rotation of ...

35. 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, ...

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

... development of China. But much effort will need to be employed to strengthen Australia's relationship with India.  It is a country whose little knowledge of Australia is out-dated, which has very few ...

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

... not achieved comparable results. In terms of improving the quality of life, even the Middle East and North Africa did relatively much better then East Asia in the last 50 years. Publications by the Asia ...

38. Breaking time for the BRICs?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

...  His universe of dynamic economies then expanded to the "next eleven" of Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Turkey and Vietnam.  And in his most recent ...

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

... investment. In the process, China’s trade surplus should then be moderated, making it easier for the US and Europe to generate the surpluses needed to revive growth. But this view about China’s unbalanced ...

40. Central Asia Update
(Panorama/Globalization)

... 2010. A long lasting political battle between opposition parties and then-president K. Bakiev and Family ended with a violent coup that took about 95 people’s lives. The Kyrgyz economy came to the edge ...