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

... among youth. While Asia may not be such a hotbed for discontent, the looming lost-decade, caused by the global financial crisis and European sovereign debt crisis, will no doubt foster growing dissatisfaction ...

22. 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 ...

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

... in response to economic crisis.  India has also been able to take advantage of the global boom in business process outsourcing, thanks to its English-literate population, and the many Indians who have ...

24. Why did Japan stop growing?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... the global financial crisis struck, as demand for its exports was badly affected.  The government has since continued to dope up the economy with budget stimulus, with the result that gross public debt ...

25. Poverty in India
(Panorama/Development)

... capita terms.  In reality, the main cause of its poor performance was its inward-looking, socialist policies. About twenty years ago, a financial crisis provided a trigger for launching reforms, which ...

26. Human security in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... today: (i) economic security.  The global financial crisis and European sovereign debt crisis, which have both hit Asia's exports badly, highlight economic security risks to events caused elsewhere in ...

27. Reassessing Asia's economic miracle
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... geese. A financial crisis would push India to start economic reform in the early 1990s.  This opening up enabled India to exploit its comparative advantage in information technology, substantially acquired ...

28. China: recent political developments
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... on the vagaries of international markets. This policy trend came to the fore in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis when US markets for Chinese-made products declined temporarily.  Factories ...

29. Whither China's economy?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... than ever. The China bears argue that the 2008-2009 stimulus in response to the global financial crisis provoked a property bubble and inflation, created loads of debt (especially for local governments) ...

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

... in the technical and trade fields.  When they enter the labor market, young people are usually the last hired in economic good times, and the first fired in times of crisis. In fact, the region's unemployed ...

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

A crisis presents a good opportunity to do all those many things that you should have done a long time ago.  Indeed, following Japan's triple crisis of 11 March 2011, Japanese government and society could ...

32. Emerging Asia's precarious middle class
(Panorama/Society)

Poor countries typically have a tiny rich elite, large impoverished masses, and a very small "middle class".  When development succeeds, society's middle class expands as poor people escape poverty, and ...

33. Is China's economy in the balance?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... see a house of cards that will soon implode in a major financial crisis. East Asian countries see China as the centre of a production sharing network that helped the region to recover from its own financial ...

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

... with unprecedented levels of water stress, it is a necessity if it is to avoid further social and economic crisis in the coming years. Human dignity has been widely acknowledged as the engine for the ...

35. Central Asia Update
(Panorama/Globalization)

... countries still heavily dependent on revenues from exporting natural resources. As the recent financial crisis demonstrated, Central Asian states are still very vulnerable and fragile in the face of global ...

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

... Australian economy has been turning down due to the ongoing euro crisis, and uncertainties about China's future growth path.  In light of these factors, and the Philippines' proven track record, large ...

37. Asia and Europe
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... from Asia." But how fair and balanced are these criticisms of Europe? Of course, Europe has deep problems at the moment with the euro crisis.  But it is still a major player on the global scene and ...

38. Can we really innovate out of crisis?
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

In a recent article (see http://www.mrglobalization.com/change-and-innovation/innovating-out-of-crisis ), we argued that America has a capacity for generating an entrepreneurship- and innovation- driven ...

39. 2012 -- a time to prepare for the long haul
(Panorama/Globalization)

The world's leading economic forecasters have been marking down their growth estimates for 2012 due to the ongoing euro crisis and the prospects of a recession in euro-land this year. Business, government ...

40. China's internal weakness and external strength
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... to China in its international relations (as will Europe now that it is begging China to contribute financially to solving the euro crisis).  And now Chinese overseas investments are spreading beyond US Treasuries ...