21. Trying to do business in China
(Panorama/Investment)

... And while there are very many examples of good Chinese factories, there are also very many which are not good. The seven deadly sins of Chinese factories are: (i) short-term focus -- low reinvestment, ...

22. America's Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... good conditions for raising children. Respondents rated their country of origin as being superior on just one of seven measures tested in the survey—strength of family ties. We should not think that ...

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

... 177th, you have to look a good way down the list to find the best ranked Asian countries.  They are Singapore 157th, South Korea 156th, Japan 151st, Mongolia 129th, Brunei 123rd, Malaysia 110th, Vietnam ...

24. World Economy in Grave Danger
(Panorama/Globalization)

... and the other European bad boys -- and ultimately to save the euro.  The European Central Bank could buy up all the region's toxic debt.  A good dose of inflation would also help erode the debt.  Pushing ...

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

... into postindustrial societies that require workers to produce ideas rather than basic manufactured goods. Another problem of concern for young Asians is unequal opportunities for education for different ...

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

... Mao era.  At that time, China had the nuclear bomb and satellite technology, but had over 90% of its population living on less than $1 a day.  Deng Xiaoping had the good sense to see the necessity of economic ...

27. State capitalism
(Panorama/Investment)

... equipment and Haier in white goods. State capitalists are also managing huge pools of capital in the form of sovereign wealth funds like the Kuwait Investment Authority, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, ...

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

... of producers, many of them state-owned.  It keeps the currency undervalued, which makes imports expensive and exports cheap, thereby discouraging the consumption of foreign goods and encouraging production ...

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

... the quality of life. The fourth is effective and good urban governance including efficiency, integrity, transparency, and responsiveness to citizen needs by using the energy and capabilities of private ...

30. Women's economic opportunity in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

... opportunities for women still lag behind those for men. The Economist Intelligence Unit's women's economic opportunity index makes a good attempt at measuring this.  In particular, it shows that Asia, ...

31. Korea -- Asia's rising star
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... industrial structure.  The economy benefited from an export-oriented strategy, good education and sound macroeconomic management. The development strategy initially focused on the country's comparative ...

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

... the local business environment. (iv) Domestic market integration.  A single national market was achieved by removing barriers to the movement of goods, labor and capital, and by major infrastructure ...

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

... by developed countries to be good development partners.  The concern at the time was that, while globalization was a very positive force, too many people in developing countries were being bypassed by ...

34. Innovation Asia
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... school INSEAD defines innovation as "the implementation of a new or significantly improved product (good or service), a new process, a new marketing method, or a new organizational method in business practices, ...

35. Russia and the East
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... it could create a strong base in which Russian companies could join the technological supply chain process along with Asian companies in the future. It would create good incentives for big Russian enterprises ...

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

... And imported capital goods also played a role through the access to technologies embodied in them.  Export revenues created a virtuous circle as they boosted savings which were then used to finance investment ...

37. Human development in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... Australia, Netherlands, and United States.  New Zealand comes in fifth, ahead of a number of countries with higher gross national income, thanks to its high life expectancy and good education performance. ...

38. Multidimensional poverty
(Panorama/Development)

... a very useful indicator of the vivid nature and intensity of poverty, and is a good complement to measures of consumption poverty which provide no qualitative information. It is estimated that 1.65 billion ...

39. Beating global poverty?
(Panorama/Development)

... while against the $2.00 poverty line, the decline is very modest, from 72% to 69%. -- Latin America and the Caribbean has always had a much lower poverty rate, but has also made good progress over the ...

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

... it is to be hoped that his many good initiatives will continue.  ...