41. Asia's services challenges
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... Tokyo only ranks as number 5, after London, New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore in The Global Financial Centres Index.  Both Hong Kong and Singapore are ranked above Japan in the World Economic Forum's ...

42. Is China's economy in the balance?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... see a house of cards that will soon implode in a major financial crisis. East Asian countries see China as the centre of a production sharing network that helped the region to recover from its own financial ...

43. Central Asia Update
(Panorama/Globalization)

... countries still heavily dependent on revenues from exporting natural resources. As the recent financial crisis demonstrated, Central Asian states are still very vulnerable and fragile in the face of global ...

44. How the Philippines benefits from Australia's booming links with China
(Panorama/International Trade)

... banking, financial and telecommunications institutions have been announcing their intention to accelerate offshoring of business processing services to the Philippines. Although business process offshoring ...

45. Asia and Europe
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... military conflict can cause more economic damage than any financial crisis. References: McKibbon, Warwick.  Catching Europe's Ills.  Financial Review.  6 February 2012. http://afr.com/p/opinion/catching_europe_ills_TZbKINq8hwjOxdsprFWfjI ...

46. 2012 -- a time to prepare for the long haul
(Panorama/Globalization)

... leading to the global financial crisis was substantially financed by a global credit bubble and buildup in debt. Thus many of these world's leading economies now have excessive levels of private and government ...

47. Australia to the UN Security Council?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... weapons, and working to save the Antarctic environment from mining and oil drilling; being a key player in the financial sanctions strategy which finally brought down apartheid in South Africa; and helping ...

48. China's internal weakness and external strength
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... to China in its international relations (as will Europe now that it is begging China to contribute financially to solving the euro crisis).  And now Chinese overseas investments are spreading beyond US Treasuries ...

49. Is Australia's economy already heading south?
(Panorama/Globalization)

... since November 2011. What to do? When the global financial crisis struck in late 2008, the Australian government acted decisively, and stimulated the economy.  This, together with export demand from ...

50. Philippines' challenges
(Panorama/Development)

... development, financial services, accounting and medical services. But the service outsourcing industry employs only about 1% of the total labor force and is biased toward relatively skilled workers. ...

51. Global Financial Integrity Project
(Web Links / Civil society organisations)

52. Financial Times
(Web Links / Media )

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

Promoting global financial stability ...

54. Governing globalization
(Category)

We all look to government to help us whenever there is a problem -- like an international conflict, financial crisis, natural disaster or even an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In reality, we always ...