21. Australia: beware of Asian Century Hype
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... itself for the burden of an ageing population.  Most other Asian countries face more difficult challenges as they need to rebalance their growth away from Western export markets at an earlier stage in ...

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

... advanced regions in the western part of the country. For instance, now the total population of the region including nine administrative subjects with a territory almost equivalent to the size of the whole ...

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

... income. And after the Meiji opening of Japan, the government sent "learning missions" abroad to absorb as much Western knowledge as possible.  For example, the Iwakura mission spent two years (1871-73) ...

24. China: recent political developments
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... and few rights. The labour reserves are in western China, but the jobs are in coastal China, so many people migrate to the coast.  But these people cannot settle where jobs are because of the legal urban-rural ...

25. Asian Century Hype
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... 19th century. All of this is true.  But what is overlooked in these discussions is that the level of Western economic development, as measured by GDP per capita, overtook China in the 14th century, some ...

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

... natural resource exports come from our Indian Ocean side in Western Australia.  And we share many strategic concerns in the Indian Ocean.  Moreover, Australian and India have shared concerns over the future ...

27. China, India and Indonesia -- safety first, please
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... against these groups. Police have stated publicly that terrorist suspects remain at large and that they may seek to attack Western targets." In short, Indonesia is not a very safe place in which to do ...

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

... mobile phones. This surging demand for middle class products promises to be a strong motor for domestic-demand driven growth, and also for more luxury goods produced by Western companies, and for tourism. ...

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

... in The Miracle (Harper, 2009). Think about it. Why did Indonesian PhD scholars educated in the US, the so-called 'Berkeley Mafia', who understood and got to know Western democratic values, decide to ...

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

As a recent returnee to Australia from Asia, I am constantly asked whether Australia and other Western countries can still compete with China. What is the answer?  In fact, this question basically rests ...

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

... realities stem partly from the fact that the China growth model does not fit the western stereotype. China’s economic institutions are fragile yet implementation of policies is strong. The costs of key ...

32. Central Asia Update
(Panorama/Globalization)

... in Zhanaozen, a small town in oil rich western part of Kazakhstan, where workers strike in one oil company led to clash with police and 10-15 people were killed. This case demonstrated that the situation ...

33. Asia and Europe
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... success has greatly benefited from openness to Western markets and access to Western knowledge.  The children of virtually all Asia leaders, including North Korea, are educated in Western countries. And ...

34. 2012 -- a time to prepare for the long haul
(Panorama/Globalization)

... model It is no coincidence that the big, long boom in China, other emerging Asian economies and Australia coincided with the global credit bubble.  Asia's export-driven growth has mainly targeted Western ...

35. Is Australia's economy already heading south?
(Panorama/Globalization)

... problems.  Further, in Australia's patchwork economy, mining states like Western Australia and Queensland are doing much better than the rest of the nation, and Sydney may no longer be representative of ...

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

... with 45% of the developing world's illicit financial outflows, followed by the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with 19%, developing Europe with 17%, Western Hemishere with 15% and Africa with 5%.  ...

37. IMF and Asia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... ever forgive and forget.  Needless to say, the devaluation of the "Western brand" by the global financial crisis does not help kindle positive attitudes to Western-dominated organizations like the IMF. ...

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

... the reduction in demand for their exports to Western markets. In response to the crisis-induced sudden drop in exports, China stoked up its economy with fiscal and monetary expansion.  While this inflated ...

39. OECD and Asia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... of the Western European group and Turkey).  The countries behind the iron curtain declined the invitation to join.  The rest of the world was on a very different radar screen from the Marshall Plan.  From ...

40. Questions on Japan
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... is just arithmetic.  This should be interpreted positively in the sense that the success of these countries reflects their adoption of market-oriented policies long employed by Western countries.  The ...