41. Australia: beware of Asian Century Hype
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

...  To date, the many fractures in Asia's development models may have affected the quality of growth more than the quantity of growth.  But looking ahead, there are great threats to the sustainability ...

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

... and UNDP, on which this article is based, only serves to remind us that Asia has achieved a lot more economic growth than economic development. Economic growth, the production of goods and services, has ...

43. China's lack of global leadership
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... as it navigates its complex transition.  Three decades of rapid growth have reduced poverty and created lots of prosperity, but have also made it more challenging to maintain stability.  Citizens are more ...

44. Innovation Asia
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... global challenges like climate change or infectious diseases, and to improving the well-being of our citizens. Innovation has always been more important as a source of growth for advanced countries, ...

45. Human security in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... an important part of people's well-being, and therefore should be an objective of development.  Lack of human security can have adverse consequences on economic growth, and therefore development.  And ...

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

Economic growth is a not a guarantee of a nation's development.  Too many resource-rich countries have experienced growth without development, as citizens have gained little in terms of well-being, and ...

47. Human development in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

...  The HDI is very important, because there was a time when economists were just concerned with economic growth.  But there have been too many cases of economic growth without development -- where economic ...

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

... shift in China’s growth pattern, namely a policy shift towards developing interior regions, internal market, production for China’s needs, and home-grown innovation, which would make China less dependent ...

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

... country has ever achieved sustained economic growth or rapid social development without urbanizing. Sources: UN Habitat State of the World's Cities 2010/2011 – Cities for All: Bridging the Urban Divide ...

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

Is the Chinese economy heading for a crash?  Or will the government be able to engineer a continuation of growth?  Or will it surprise us all again by booming along?  No-one can really be sure now, or ...

51. Globalization winners
(Category)

... economic growth of 7 per cent for 25 years or longer in the post World War II period (at this pace, an economy doubles in size every decade)... Read more  ...