41. Urbanization in Asia -- 12 things to know in 2012
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

...  7.  Between the years 2000 and 2010, Asia showed the greatest gains in moving people out of slum conditions, with the PRC and India together lifting around 125 million people. However, the absolute number ...

42. An Indo-Pacific Strategy for Australia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... humanities and social sciences.  "Grand Stakes: Australia's Future Between China and India", Rory Medcalf, Senior Research Fellow, Indian Strategic Affairs, School of Social Sciences, UNSW. http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/so-what/ ...

43. Youth and development in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

There is no time like the present for investing in our youth, those between the ages of 12 and 24.  After all, today's youth are tomorrow's workers, entrepreneurs, parents, citizens and leaders.  Indeed, ...

44. Japan's triple crisis -- one year on?
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... and infighting.  Revelations of the close cosy ties between nuclear regulators and industry confirmed the worst impressions of Japan's iron triangle. While the government may have reacted sluggishly, ...

45. Competing with China?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... of competing with China.  We are both specialising in different sectors, and gain from this trade.  In fact, the gains from trade are greatest when trade is between countries which are different.  It is ...

46. Human dignity, water and revolutions in Africa
(Panorama/Development)

... between 2008 and 2010 due to similar hikes in food. A lack of water needed for increased agricultural production to feed rapidly growing populations lay behind those riots. In the run up to the disturbances ...

47. Aborigines' first contact with modernity
(Panorama/Culture)

Perhaps globalization's greatest drama comes from the contact between traditional, indigenous societies and "modernity" or the West. In his brilliant book, "The First Frontier: the occupation of the Sydney ...

48. Central Asia Update
(Panorama/Globalization)

... 2010. A long lasting political battle between opposition parties and then-president K. Bakiev and Family ended with a violent coup that took about 95 people’s lives. The Kyrgyz economy came to the edge ...

49. How the Philippines benefits from Australia's booming links with China
(Panorama/International Trade)

... billion in 2009. All of these of these booming linkages between Australia and China have contributed to the cumulative strengthening of the Australia dollar by almost 20% over the past four years.  This ...

50. Measuring up Asia's economy
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... rate of 1.0% (down from 1.5% in the early 1990s), there are also great disparities in the population growth rates between Asia's different sub-regions -- East and North East Asia, and North and Central ...

51. International Trade
(Category)

The amount of fuss that is stirred up by discussions on international trade is just amazing. Just think about it. A transaction between someone in Seattle and someone in Vancouver is international trade.  ...