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

Australia is awash with hype about the "Asian Century".  This is natural.  Asia is the world's fastest growing region, and accounts for the lion's share of Australia's exports.  Asia's rapidly urbanising ...

42. Asia's uneven development
(Panorama/Development)

Asia has wowed the world with its massive reduction in the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day, the standard measure of extreme poverty.  The region has thus achieved the first Millennium ...

43. China's lack of global leadership
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... part because Beijing has difficulty controlling the People's Liberation Army which plays its own game.  It may also be in part a game of low-level terrorism to keep the US and its Asian allies off balance.  ...

44. Innovation Asia
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

Asia has been the most dynamic part of the world economy for some time.  And while it has long been considered a region of copycats, Asia is now becoming a more important player in global innovation. Singapore ...

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

This week's invited contributor is my former deputy at the Tokyo-based Asian Development Bank Institute, Turdakun Tashbolotov.  He has an interesting story to share with us about Russia and the East.   ...

46. Human security in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

What is human security?  And what does it mean in the Asian context?  Human security is concerned with both safeguarding and expanding people's vital freedoms -- in particular, the freedom from ...

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

... the natural environment has suffered greatly.  But in the case of Asia, the region's massive reductions in poverty are principally due to its rapid economic growth, whose benefits have been spread widely, ...

48. Human development in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... just not the curious case of Cuba.  In Asia, Japan is ranked as having the region's highest level of human development, even though its income is lower than Hong Kong, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam, ...

49. Multidimensional poverty
(Panorama/Development)

... of half more than the MPI dimensions).  About half of south Asia's population is also MPI poor, and 435 million of these 827 million poor people are severely MPI poor.  In East Asia, only 17 per cent of ...

50. Beating global poverty?
(Panorama/Development)

... to extraordinary reductions in poverty in China and its neighbors.  These past three decades, East Asia has gone from having a much higher rate of poverty than sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia to having ...

51. East Asian Bureau of Economic Research
(Web Links / Civil society organisations)

52. East Asia Forum
(Web Links / Blogs)