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

... for leadership transition." China and Russia are fundamentally unstable. "In the case of China, the wealth is based on control of cheap labour supply chains in global manufacturing and the steady growth ...

22. Asian Century on Youtube
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... efficiency, entrepreneurship/innovation/technology, financial systems, governance/institutions, and moving from growth to well-being. -- At the regional level, issues include development cooperation, ...

23. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Development)

... urban areas (up from 25 per cent, twenty years ago). Burma has managed an average annual economic growth of more than 10 per cent over the past decade, and more than 5 per cent in the past three years.  ...

24. 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 ...

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

... to prosecute perpetrators of human rights abuses during the country's war for independence. Despite impressive economic growth, the country's economy remains almost entirely dependent on oil exports. A ...

26. Human Rights in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

... human rights highlights vividly the growing tensions between Asia's miraculous economic growth and the region's poor human rights record.  Set out below are some key extracts from this report. As winds ...

27. Burma: some Nobel thoughts
(Panorama/Society)

... political and economic growth that is balanced and sustainable. The potential of our country is enormous. This should be nurtured and developed to create not just a more prosperous but also a more harmonious, ...

28. Mirage of Incredible India
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... quite rightly paints a dire portrait of an India with weakening growth, and high inflation and budget deficit.  Since the impressive reforms undertaken two decades ago, reform has basically ground to a ...

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

... is only making enemies at home and abroad, and she has elections coming up next year. More fundamentally, a serious growth strategy is necessary, and Europe still has to correct the fundamental divergances ...

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

... a long way to go in winning this space race of education when it comes to quality rather than test scores.  Despite recent years of economic growth, the eduction system is archaic. Tiger cubs who have ...

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

... War.  'State capitalism' then saw new life when the Chinese leadership decided to rethink its development model in 1978. For three decades this model delivered extraordinary economic growth, but now it ...

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

... economic growth the past two decades, this will not been sufficient to enable India to achieve most of the Millenium Development Goals by 2015.  Indeed, an alarming 80% of Indians live on less than $2 ...

33. State capitalism
(Panorama/Investment)

... in its special report of 21 January 2012, state capitalism also has many shortcomings, especially for advanced countries which depend on innovation-driven growth.  In fact, state capitalism serves more ...

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

... market rate for their loans and land.  And China could have achieved the same rate of economic growth over the past three decades with half the rate of investment, had that investment been undertaken by ...

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

... The influx in the 1990s of foreign investment in manufacturing in many coastal cities, and the resulting real estate boom, has largely driven China's ecoonomic growth for the past couple of decades. Town ...

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

... for men. Organizations like the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank are forever harping on about "inclusive growth".  Perhaps the most important contribution that could be made to this lofty goal ...

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

... debt crises.  Korea recovered faster and more vigorously than most OECD countries and enjoys a low unemployment rate of 3.4% and modest government debt.  While growth slowed in late 2011, reflecting the ...

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

... be easy, it is essential for China to become a modern, harmonious, and creative high-income society. China's economic performance these past three decades has been spectacular.  Annual GDP growth rate ...

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

Japan's very strong economic growth from the 1950s through to the 1980s was a virtual miracle.  Its stagnation for the past two decades seems a mystery.  How did it all happen? In the period up to ...

40. Poverty in India
(Panorama/Development)

Over the past two decades, India has become one of the stars of the world economy thanks to its rapid growth.  At the same time, India will not manage to realize the Millennium Development Goal of reducing ...