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

... by Japanese investments in the 1980s, but which ultimately became a happy experience. Today, Japanese US affiliates employ nearly 700,000 Americans, export products to the value of $60 billion, spend $4.6 ...

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

... We have seen a global financial and economic crisis transform into an employment and social crisis. So this is the world that you, our youth, are inheriting today.  My generation should have left you ...

3. Globalization, the word
(Panorama/Globalization)

... by Ted Levitt’s powerful thinking which is still studied and talked about today – to such an extent that many truly believe that he invented the word.  But unfortunately, globalization also became a lightening ...

4. Globalization, development and culture
(Panorama/Globalization)

... culture of optimism and risk taking also seem to play an important role in entrepreneurship and innovation.  As also seems to be the case today, optimism and risk taking can at times be excessive, leading ...

5. Global citizens
(Panorama/Globalization)

... Newt Gingrich, American politician (AD 2009). But as Mark Gerzon argues in his book, “Global Citizens”, the world of today is in desperate need of global citizens. We human beings are now challenged ...

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

... PewResearchCenter publication, "The Rise of Asian Americans".  After all, the growth and dynamism of the United States has always been driven by successive waves of immigration.  And today, Asian Americans ...

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

... in the world versus China's 91st.  The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index again gives India a very much worse ranking than China. India today has some similarities to China in the pre-reform ...

8. Microfinance today
(Panorama/Finance)

This week's invited contributor is Cornell University's Lila Nojima who has shared with us an interesting piece on microfinance. As Lila says, microfinance is one of the major buzz words in both the ...

9. Asia's information society
(Panorama/Society)

... case of Korea should be a source of inspiration to all countries.  Just half a century ago, its level of development was lower than many African countries.  But today Korea is the world’s most advanced ...

10. Understanding the Rise of China -- Martin Jacques
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... the West fragmented at the end of the Roman Empire, and remains fragmented today, China has remained a single civilization with its values of ancestor worship, family, state, guanxi, Confucian culture ...

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

... PewResearchCenter publication, "The Rise of Asian Americans".  After all, the growth and dynamism of the United States has always been driven by successive waves of immigration.  And today, Asian Americans ...

12. Views of Asia's next generation
(Panorama/Society)

... A generation born from 1978 to the early 1990.  This is Asia's Generation Y or Millennial generation.  They are almost 1.5 billion in number. The parents of today's young Asians knew hunger and revolution.  ...

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

... in the world versus China's 91st.  The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index again gives India a very much worse ranking than China. India today has some similarities to China in the pre-reform ...

14. State capitalism
(Panorama/Investment)

... in the form of the East India Company.  Today, the advanced world has many remnants of state capitalism -- for example, the French government owns 85% of EDF, an energy company, the Japanese government ...

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

The largest migration in world history is now taking place -- from Chinese rural to urban areas.  China's urban population has jumped from about 10% of total in 1949 to about 50% today.  By the year 2030, ...

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

... to overtake Japan's income per capita. Korea's economic catchup has been nothing short of miraculous.  Its income per capita has jumped from less than 20% of Japan's four decades ago to 90% today.  ...

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

... will hurt their economic interests. Third, there are opinion makers who equate today's problems as outcomes of earlier reforms rather than of distortions that remain.  Some for example attribute the ...

18. Japanese business -- from old to new Japan
(Panorama/Investment)

... in consumer end products.  Japan could no longer compete in blow dryers and toasters. The first response of Japanese industry was to offshore large parts of manufacturing, beginning in the 1980s.  Today, ...

19. Innovation Asia
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... be in the form of major breakthrough or disruptive innovation, or incremental innovation, or creative innovation. Today an "open innovation" approach is increasingly common, based on partnerships among ...

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

... is characterized by intense infighting. Successful leadership today means balancing the interests of the factions and being people of compromise rather than real leaders.  This has made the Party more ...