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

... modern city with great infrastructure (well-planned road system, efficient airport, busiest port in the world, state-of-the-art tertiary educative facilities, convenient public transport system, housing ...

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

... tape, lousy infrastructure, and the limits imposed by poverty and discrimination against women. Notwithstanding India's much vaunted democratic credentials, it scores well behind China on most economic ...

3. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... from China which has been virtually colonizing parts of the country through its investment and infrastructure projects, notably the Myitsone hydroelectric project which has recently been suspended.  Burmese ...

4. Microfinance today
(Panorama/Finance)

... microfinance diverts resources from ore important poverty alleviation projects, such as education and infrastructure. Others assert that there is a low demand for the goods produced by microenterprises. ...

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

... Frequency, which took effect on Julu 2010.  The two laws aim to encourage all economic and private sectors to develop their telecommunication services, investments and infrastructure.  In Indonesia and ...

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

... in building infrastructure -- Great Wall, Grand Canal and today the Three Gorges Dam. The West, which has ruled the world for 200 years, thinks of itself as cosmopolitan.  But in reality, the West is ...

7. Natural disasters in Asia
(Panorama/Environment)

... good PR thanks to the CNN effect.   The ADB proposes three lines of very useful action. First, we need to reduce populations exposure to natural disasters by: accelerating infrastructure improvements ...

8. Food security in Asia
(Panorama/Environment)

... is also leading to sever droughts, floods and storms, which destroy crops, pasture lands, livestock, transport and agricultural infrastructure, and household assets. The ADB proposes a very useful set ...

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

... role of government in a poor country should be to build physical infrastructure, provide its population with a basic education, open up markets and provide coordination for major private sector investments.  ...

10. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Development)

... from China which has been virtually colonizing parts of the country through its investment and infrastructure projects, notably the Myitsone hydroelectric project which has recently been suspended.  Burmese ...

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

... government is showing no leadership.  The country continues to be dogged by masive corruption, and poor infrastructure, and recent anti-foreign investment laws are only making things worse. The emerging ...

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

... tape, lousy infrastructure, and the limits imposed by poverty and discrimination against women. Notwithstanding India's much vaunted democratic credentials, it scores well behind China on most economic ...

13. State capitalism
(Panorama/Investment)

... will become less competitive.  State capitalism works better in areas like infrastructure than in consumer goods. State capitalism only works well when directed by a competent state.  Many Asian countries ...

14. The Economist on China
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... Spending on plant, machinery, buildings and infrastructure accounted for about half of China's GDP in 2011.  But too much of this investment is undertaken by state-owned enterprises (SOEs) which benefit ...

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

... 50% of China's population now lives in urban areas. Recognizing that new sources of revenue were needed by local governments to upgrade severely under-invested urban infrastructure, the central government ...

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

... shocks. (iii) Interregional competition.  China built on its strong local governments at various levels by allowing them to compete in attracting investment, developing infrastructure, and improving ...

17. Poverty in India
(Panorama/Development)

... the country's massive corruption, appalling infrastructure, and nightmare of a bureaucracy, the country has managed to grow very strongly.  It was also able to benefit from the period of strong global ...

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

... and development, and infrastructure.  Moreover, business and government need to engage more seriously with the whole region in the Asian Century project, whose successful realisation is still very much ...

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

... that accept and even encourage unfair distributions of wealth and social resources. (ii) expand access to primary health care with supporting basic infrastructure such as connectivity to roads, electricity ...

20. Innovation Asia
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... Index" which comprises an innovation input sub-index (based on institutions, human capital and research, infrastructure, and market and business sophistication) and an innovation output sub-index (made ...