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

... industry. To explore these potentials the governments of these two countries established the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation ...

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

... Burma any more), and it is not clear that even China appreciates this friendship. In a way China is closer to the US than to any other country through its trade and finance linkages.  The Cold War was ...

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

... and production networks could not function effectively without efficient logistics, transport, telecomunications, trade finance and business process services. The services sector can now also be a fast ...

24. Is Australia merely America's poodle in the Asia-Pacific?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... Malacca Straits which carry 40% of global trade and 50% of energy trade.  The Malacca Straits and South China Sea are also vital conduits for Australia's trade. The US is responding to China's increased ...

25. Will China overtake the US?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... as the US. There are many factors which can facilitate the catchup or convergence process such as better policy and institutional frameworks, openness to trade and investment, and improvements in human ...

26. An Indo-Pacific Strategy for Australia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... Australia needs to follow a two-pronged approach.  First, we should engage and enmesh China and India in Australia through open trade and investment, and close strategic partnerships.  We need to give ...

27. China, India and Indonesia -- safety first, please
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... too many eggs in the China basket, and needs to diversify. Good recommendation, yes!  But ... it is also relevant that Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) considers both Indonesia ...

28. Youth and development in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

... in the technical and trade fields.  When they enter the labor market, young people are usually the last hired in economic good times, and the first fired in times of crisis. In fact, the region's unemployed ...

29. Gender equality and development
(Panorama/Society)

... Yes indeed! First, trade openness, and the diffusion of new information and communications technologies have translated into more jobs and stronger connections to markets for women, increasing their ...

30. Asia’s Development and the Leadership Issue
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... Development Bank have shown that inequality has been on the rise throughout the region during the past two decades.  Even Japan, a country where a relatively equal income distribution was its trademark ...

31. Competing with China?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... from this trade whereby we sell China high value added goods and services, in return for buying China's lower value added products.  A similar story could be told for other Western countries.  Here are ...

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

... also seen as driving its trade surpluses with the US and the EU. Compared with other countries, China’s consumption to GDP ratio is exceptionally low, suggesting that consumers are being repressed. China’s ...

33. Human dignity, water and revolutions in Africa
(Panorama/Development)

... Trying to separate the Sahel from North Africa or the Horn of Africa from the Arabian Peninsula would reduce the effectiveness of any concerted action in a region bound by historical trade and migratory ...

34. Central Asia Update
(Panorama/Globalization)

... important location. However in modern era it lost its central role of being a bridge between the East and West, as the East and West found it easier, cheaper and faster to trade and communicate through ...

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

East Asia's substantially market-led economic integration is a very complex process and is leading to some surprising effects.  One example is that of Australia's booming trade and investment with China, ...

36. 2012 -- a time to prepare for the long haul
(Panorama/Globalization)

... countries.  Much is made of the rapid growth in intra-regional trade in East Asia.  But a large share of this is trade in parts and components along supply chains whose final products are sold in Western ...

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

... Keating Labor Governments from 1983 to 1996 brought a renewed period of activism including: helping to create APEC, and finalise the Uruguay Round trade negotiations; working against chemical and nuclear ...

38. Asia's financial exodus
(Panorama/Finance)

... do illicit financial outflows actually occur?  The GFI identifies two types.  First, there is trade mispricing.  Second, there are unrecorded capital flows like the transfer of the proceeds of bribery, ...

39. Bribery and corruption in Asia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... that the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry —which has responsibility for Japan’s foreign bribery offence—takes a stronger role in ensuring the effective implementation of the Anti-Bribery Convention ...

40. Korea and Japan: a tale of two countries
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... trade, greater protections for investors and creditors, easier and cheaper business start-up, and smoother permiting, driven most recently by the Presidential Council on National Competitiveness. -- following ...