21. Clinton on democracy in Asia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... rights of citizens to choose their leaders, to govern without accountability, to corrupt the economic progress of the country and take the riches onto themselves." "Those who oppose democracy rely on ...

22. Japan's governance problems
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... and pursued with the same single-minded determination that drove Japan’s postwar economic miracle.  With such a powerful mandate, nuclear power became an unstoppable force, immune to scrutiny by civil ...

23. China's reform in a bind
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... strong leadership. In other words, China's economic reform process is being increasingly blocked by the country's many political interest groups. Political reform itself is also on the agenda.  Even ...

24. Democracy in Asia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... political forces in Europe have not yet profited from economic dislocation as might have been feared, populism and anti-immigrant sentiment are on the rise. -- Eastern Europe experienced another decline ...

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

... order; predatory on their own society and dependent for their stability, not on institutions, but ... on the capacity of the economic machine to distribute enough riches to enough people." He has very ...

26. Sen on development on youtube
(Panorama/Development)

... human lives, or in other terms removing "unfreedoms" -- these deprivations or unfreedoms can be economic, social, environmental and political in nature. The key to removing these deprivations is developing ...

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

... to transform economic weight into political power.  China now has the world's second biggest economy, but is more concerned with maintaining internal stability than projecting international power.  And ...

28. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Development)

...  The US and most other Western countries imposed sanctions.  Most neighboring Asian countries pursued a policy of engagement, especially China which developed very close economic and political ties.  ...

29. 2012 Conference of Montreal
(Panorama/Globalization)

... highlights online at www.mrglobalization.com.   The 2012 edition of the Conference of Montreal will tackle key global challenges like the economic and financial crisis, the accessibility innovations ...

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

... to the economically punch-drunk America rejuvenates that economy, and launches it off on a new Asian-driven America century. What is the Asian Century hypothesis?  For half a century now, Asia has ...

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

... failure risk elements such as extensive corruption and criminal behavior, inability to collect taxes or otherwise draw on citizen support, large-scale involuntary dislocation of the population, sharp economic ...

32. 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 ...

33. 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, ...

34. 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 ...

35. 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 ...

36. India's urban squalor
(Panorama/Society)

The movement of people from rural to urban areas (urbanization) and from low-productivity agriculture to the manufacturing and services sectors is, in theory, an important part of the economic development ...

37. 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 ...

38. State capitalism
(Panorama/Investment)

... capitalism is China, but Russia and some Gulf States are also active.  There is a long history of state capitalism.  Rising powers have always used the state to kick-start economic growth or at least ...

39. 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 ...

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

... establishment in 1980 of special economic zones in four coastal cities.  Economic reform has continued progressively, leading to substantial industrialization in urban areas, with the result that about ...