41. China, Japan and South Korea FTA: Mirage or Possibility?
(Panorama/International Trade)

... apart from its previous strategy of “peaceful rise”. It should not be forgotten that a number of territorial disputes remain open in the South China Sea, and that according to the Stockholm International ...

42. India -- the new frontier?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... poor people. According to TI's 2010 Global Corruption Barometer, 54 per cent of households paid a bribe in a 12 month period to receive basic services. The World Bank conducts very interesting analysis ...

43. Innovating out of crisis
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... according to OECD analysis.  Companies like Microsoft, Nokia, Google, Blackberry (RIM) were all born, or reborn, during an economic downturn. In fact, over half of the companies on the 2009 Fortune 500 ...

44. Global education in Japan
(Panorama/Society)

... from the most cost-efficient location according to its comparative advantage.  For example, the i-Phone was designed in the US, its high-tech components are produced in Japan, Germany, Korea and the US, ...

45. Italy Is Not Game Over
(Panorama/Finance)

... a poor 0.6 percent of growth in 2011 and 0.3 in 2012, according to IMF). The future path of the new government is to be found in the letter that former Prime Minister Berlusoni delivered to the European ...

46. Central and Eastern Europe, and Germany
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... of more than 4% and growth projections for 2011 and 2012 indicate GDP increases of 3.7 and 2 percent respectively, according to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.  Public debt is only ...

47. Kazakhstan and China
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... aware of these benefits and is accordingly doing its best to satisfy China's requests. At the moment, Kazakhstan is one of China's main energy providers (11 million tons of oil reached China in 2010 ...

48. APEC -- the quiet achiever
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

For many years now, APEC has been criticized as a useless talk-fest and publicity stunt.  But according to Australian trade minister, Craig Emerson, APEC has not only been a "quiet achiever", it now has ...

49. Japan's stunted economy
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... national flag carrier, Japan Airlines, stumbles from one government bail-out to another. A rapidly growing are of services trade is higher education.  But according to most rankings, like the Times Higher ...

50. The Korean Paradox
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... public debt representing only roughly a third of the GDP. According to the IMF, Korea posted a 6.2 real GDP growth in 2010 and is expected to reach a 3.9% growth at the end of 2011. Over the past 30 years ...