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

... two decades of strong economic growth and poverty reduction.  This was especially the case in Asia where good education systems, and strong and effective governance were also key elements.  And the strong ...

2. Singapore in the Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

After many decades of great success, how can Singapore contribute to the Asian Century?  Lorraine Bergeron, an invited contributor from Tokyo's Sophia University, shares with us her views. The 21st ...

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

... other race group from 2000 to 2010 (by 46 per cent) and its numbers roughly quadrupled from 1980 to 2010.  In the coming decades, it is projected by Pew that the Asian American population will continue ...

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

... economic growth the past two decades, this will not been sufficient to enable India to achieve most of the Millenium Development Goals by 2015.  Indeed, an alarming 80% of Indians live on less than $2 ...

5. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... (These figures are, like most data concerning Burma, highly questionable, and most likely overstated.)  Over the past two decades, exports have grown strongly, rising from 5 to 35 per cent of GDP. Burma's ...

6. Economic growth prospects in Asia
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... high growth rates these past few decades, this is a reflection of how far behind China was, as well as of course its excellent policy reforms.     Poorer countries can absorb knowledge and technology ...

7. Human capital in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

... Asia has shown strong growth in educational attainment in the past 4 decades compared with other regions, according to analysis by the Asian Development Bank.  In 2010, its population aged 15 and over ...

8. Natural disasters in Asia
(Panorama/Environment)

... a small, weak economy for decades, and weak governance can impede risk reduction.  Looking ahead, as climate change shifts patterns in weather-related disasters, the poor and economically vulnerable will ...

9. Clinton on democracy in Asia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... that improve the lives of citizens." "And consider all that has been achieved in Burma. After decades of military rule, the government there released political prisoners, passed laws allowing the formation ...

10. Japan's governance problems
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... power installations is planned in the coming decades. Watch out for more disasters on the way. Reference: The official report of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission ...

11. Democracy in Asia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... Myanmar and North Korea to Laos, Vietnam and China—are still entrenched authoritarian regimes, the past couple of decades have seen the spread of democracy in the region overall. Over the past decade, ...

12. Democracy in China?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... to a democratic systems these past couple of decades. Just last week marked 15 years since Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule.  China's President Hu Jintao made the trip to Hong Kong to swear in businessman ...

13. Asian Century on Youtube
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... been in a deep funk for two decades and has never made the transition to a domestic demand- and innovation-driven economy. -- building trusting relations between the region's big players, namely China, ...

14. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Development)

... (These figures are, like most data concerning Burma, highly questionable, and most likely overstated.)  Over the past two decades, exports have grown strongly, rising from 5 to 35 per cent of GDP. Burma's ...

15. Trying to do business in China
(Panorama/Investment)

... system.  Courst are slow, expensive and public, and outside the very big Chinese cities, judges are not very high quality.  Indeed, China only has a couple of decades of judicial experience which means ...

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

... other race group from 2000 to 2010 (by 46 per cent) and its numbers roughly quadrupled from 1980 to 2010.  In the coming decades, it is projected by Pew that the Asian American population will continue ...

17. Asia's Failed States
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... for 46 years, Kim Il Sung, in 1994; and the world's worst famine in decades, which led to the starvation of hundreds of thousands of people. The year 2011 saw both the ascension of Kim Jong Un, after the ...

18. Mirage of Incredible India
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... quite rightly paints a dire portrait of an India with weakening growth, and high inflation and budget deficit.  Since the impressive reforms undertaken two decades ago, reform has basically ground to a ...

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

... and the Philippines have large and growing populations, putting a heavy burden on sustained economic growth.  Asia will remain the largest contributor to global population growth in the next four decades.  ...

20. China: is “state capitalism” in crisis?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... War.  'State capitalism' then saw new life when the Chinese leadership decided to rethink its development model in 1978. For three decades this model delivered extraordinary economic growth, but now it ...