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

... OECD, China is assessed to have the highest FDI regulatory restrictiveness ranking of the 54 countries covered, and much higher than Australia, Canada or the US. In other words, the Chinese government ...

2. Asian Migration
(Panorama/Migration)

The US, Canada, UK and Australia are blessed with a wave of skilled migrants from Asia, according to a recent OECD report. Continental Europe, Japan and Korea are missing out on this dynamic. The ...

3. Globalization and the challenges of our youth
(Panorama/Society)

... and Development (OECD), the word globalization was never used, for the simple reason that the global economy was not yet globalized. It was divided into three distinct groups -- advanced, communist ...

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

... with OECD levels, Japan can exploit their higher incomes by becoming an attractive vacation destination. Tourism is a major industry and focusing on the sector, Japan will not only bring money in, but ...

5. America's Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... accounts for almost 60 per cent of the world's population.  And as most advanced OECD countries in the economic doldrums, with the notable exceptions of Canada and Australia, dynamically emerging Asia ...

6. Human capital in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

... demands for skilled labor, the region also suffers from a gap between education outputs and labor market needs that is widening more rapidly than in other developing regions.   OECD's PISA Programme ...

7. Asia`s social development
(Panorama/Society)

Discussions in the Asia-Pacific focus substantially on the region's economic development.  Thankfully, the OECD's excellent publication "Society at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2011" provides us with some much ...

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

... from 19% to 17% in Latin America and 7% to 4% in the OECD countries.  Although developing Asia is widely touted as the factory of the world, industrial employment only rose from 17% in 1990 to 24% in 2008.  ...

9. Food security in Asia
(Panorama/Environment)

... the OECD average, and also have the forms of support that most distort production and trade still represent the vast majority of the support.  If only these two countries could take agricultural reform ...

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

... not included in this study, a separate report of the OECD shows that inequality is also rising in Japan, a trend which is also common among most OECD countries. The changes in developing Asia's inequality ...

11. America's Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... accounts for almost 60 per cent of the world's population.  And as most advanced OECD countries in the economic doldrums, with the notable exceptions of Canada and Australia, dynamically emerging Asia ...

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

... China” , OECD Regional Development Working Papers, 2009/1, OECD publishing, © OECD. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/28/21/42607972.pdf World Bank.  "China 2030" www.worldbank.org  ...

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

... debt crises.  Korea recovered faster and more vigorously than most OECD countries and enjoys a low unemployment rate of 3.4% and modest government debt.  While growth slowed in late 2011, reflecting the ...

14. Beating global poverty?
(Panorama/Development)

... a record high of 16.0 percent in 2009 (or some 20 million people), twice the rate of two decades ago.  An OECD study of 2008 reports that Japan's relative poverty rate was the fourth highest of the 30 ...

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

... making it “green”. He had a stint as Minister for Commerce, during which he took part in the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, representing China there for the first time and displaying his excellent English ...

16. Asian Century Hype
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... Economy: a millennial perspective".  Development Centre Studies.  OECD http://www.oecd.org/document/15/0,3746,en_2649_33731_2744207_1_1_1_1,00.html  ...

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

...  But these figures imply that emerging Asia is underperforming in services trade and thus overall services performance.  Why?  Analysis by the OECD and World Bank suggest that emerging Asia (excluding ...

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

... in the world, with average per capita growth rates of 6 percent. One example gives the picture of the so-called miracle: South Korea, only as rich as Ghana in 1960, is now a OECD member posting GDP per ...

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

... about O'Neill's analysis.  Way back in 1997, the OECD produced a very similar report, "The World in 2020", which focused on the "Big 5" of Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and Russia, each of which then ...

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

... at the OECD Observer.   Apprehensions about China’s unbalanced growth process concern everybody, but its causes are often misunderstood.  What can the Chinese leadership do to rebalance investment ...