41. Innovation Asia
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... industries, companies, national and regional governments, and research organizations and academia.  But what is most important about innovation is that it is the key to improving productivity, to solving ...

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

... unacceptable and a blow to national pride as Russia is still seen as a successor of the USSR which was a “mentor and big brother” of Communist China in the not so distant past. Russia is still a military ...

43. Human security in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... human security include the state, but also international organizations, NGOs and local communities -- in contrast to the idea of state security where the state has a monopoly on the rights and means to ...

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

... was possible.  And ultimately, it showed the Chinese Communist Party the intellectual bankruptcy of central planning.  Nationalism was a major motivational force for economic growth in Asia as countries ...

45. Human development in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... in three basic aspects of human development, namely, health, knowledge, and income.  Health is measured by life expectancy, knowledge by mean years of schooling, and income by gross national income in ...

46. Multidimensional poverty
(Panorama/Development)

... and the CIS 0.011. The MPI analysis highlights the severity of poverty in South Asia where the poorest 26 sub-national regions have a higher combined MPI, and more MPI people, than Sub-Saharan Africa. ...

47. Beating global poverty?
(Panorama/Development)

... day is the average of the national poverty lines found in the poorest 10-20 countries.  $2 a day is the median of the national poverty lines of all developing countries. It is now estimated that both ...

48. 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 ...

49. America and China: Asia's great powers
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... external intervention in other countries.  They all abstained from the UN Security Council vote on Libya.  They are more concerned with domestic issues than international responsibility. Being a great ...

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

... growth is unbalanced is partly related to the first.  Workers have been receiving a low and declining share of the national pie, with the result that private consumption is very low.  If workers were given ...

51. Lowy Institute for International Policy
(Web Links / Civil society organisations)

52. Spiegel Online International
(Web Links / Media )

53. International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
(Web Links / Civil society organisations)

54. Amnesty International
(Web Links / Civil society organisations)

55. Greenpeace
(Web Links / Civil society organisations)

56. Japan Institute of International Affairs
(Web Links / Civil society organisations)

57. French Institute of International Relations
(Web Links / Civil society organisations)

58. Peterson Institute for International Economics
(Web Links / Civil society organisations)

59. International Labour Organisation
(Web Links / Intergovernmental organisations)

60. International Monetary Fund
(Web Links / Intergovernmental organisations)

Promoting global financial stability