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

Foreign direct investment (FDI) coming from Chinese enterprises, especially state-owned enterprises (SOEs), is making waves in countries like Australia, Canada and the United States. In Canada recently, ...

2. Whither Obama, the global president?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

...  Jacobson took us through the numbers.  Obama already has a solid 237 electoral college votes, and Romney 206.  For the 8 undecided states, Obama seems to have the edge.  While there will be some changes, ...

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

... United States and the United Kingdom. US Chairman of the Federal Reserve once called this period as "The Great Moderation" and OECD Secretary-General Donald Johnston referred to it as the "Age of Globalization".  ...

4. Global citizens
(Panorama/Globalization)

... thoughts of an ageing hippy. But it really is more powerful than many think.  For example, his own country, the United States of America is in desperate of globalizing its thinking and mindset.  Only ...

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

... economic and social portrait of the country and compare it to the United States in some cases as the US represents the ultimate to goal to catch up to. Singapore is a country of about just over 5 million ...

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

... States and Australia. Further, Japan has very high life expectancy and very low infant and child mortality. This places Japan at the same level of development as Western nations. Japan achieved all this ...

7. 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 ...

8. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... on its Failed States Index.  According to Transparency International, Burma is the third most corrupt country in the world, just ahead of North Korea and Somalia, and equal with Afghanistan.  In this context, ...

9. Microfinance today
(Panorama/Finance)

... services, and there is a rapidly growing middle class. This middle class is not the same as the middle class of the United States and western nations. Being middle class in Asia can mean simply living ...

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

...  Asian Development Bank Institute.  ADBI Working Paper Series. How the iPhone Widens the United. States Trade Deficit with the. People's Republic of China. Yuqing Xing and Neal Detert. http://www.adbi.org/files/2010.12.14.wp257.iphone.widens.us.trade.deficit.prc.pdf ...

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

... next generation.   Does inequality matter?  After all, the United States, the richest and most powerful country in the world, is also one of the most unequal.  Of the OECD's 34 member countries, the US ...

12. Tyranny in China and Russia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... if necessary, by force." We must be careful not to provoke Putin. "As states on its southern frontier, like Georgia, have learned, this new Russia is easily provoked. The states on its northern frontier ...

13. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Development)

... on its Failed States Index.  According to Transparency International, Burma is the third most corrupt country in the world, just ahead of North Korea and Somalia, and equal with Afghanistan.  In this context, ...

14. 2012 Conference of Montreal
(Panorama/Globalization)

... Chairman, Federal Reserve (United States); Michel Barnier, Commissioner, Internal Market and Services, European Commission; Christian Noyer, Governor, Bank of France, and Chairman, Bank for International ...

15. 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 ...

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

As Asia sits on top of the world economy, it may be difficult to imagine that this vast unwieldy region is home to more than a handful of the world's "failed states", as estimated by the Fund for Peace ...

17. Human Rights in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

... human rights within the country and abroad. Around 250 people were killed in ongoing clashes between armed Maoists and security forces in several central and eastern states. At least 40 people were killed ...

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

... systems.  Political systems include constitional monarchies, one-party states, federal states, liberal democracies and military dictatorships. Amid these differences, one common element drawing the region ...

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

In this week's invited contribution, Emanuele Schibotto* asks if China's "state capitalism" is in crisis. In 2010, Ian Bremmer's book,  The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and ...

20. State capitalism
(Panorama/Investment)

... capitalism is China, but Russia and some Gulf States are also active.  There is a long history of state capitalism.  Rising powers have always used the state to kick-start economic growth or at least ...