41. Doing business in Asia
(Panorama/Investment)

... several waves of regulatory reform including through lower and simpler taxes, easier trade, greater protections for investors and creditors, easier and cheaper business start-up, and smoother permiting, ...

42. China's elites and development
(Panorama/Society)

... their societies. Globalization is having diverse impacts on elites.  International trade and investment usually benefit business and government elites more than poor people.  But globalization also constrains ...

43. Birth of CELAC, a new regional body
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

...  CELAC, as any other initiative aimed at fostering multilateral dialogue, has to be positively welcomed. The benefits which the organization could provide are remarkable – just think of increasing trade ...

44. SINO-INDIAN ECONOMIC STRATEGIC DIALOGUE: BEYOND THE BEIJING ROUND
(Panorama/International Trade)

It was trade that helped China and India to take their political-military relationships out of woods beginning with late eighties and enabled them to keep sweeping tensions under the friendship rug.  In ...

45. China, Japan and South Korea FTA: Mirage or Possibility?
(Panorama/International Trade)

In this week's invited contribution, Laura Rizzotto and Marco Vadagnini, who are students at the London School of Economics, discuss the possibility of a single free trade bloc grouping China, Japan and ...

46. India -- the new frontier?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

Barry O'Farrell, Premier of New South Wales, Australia, has just returned from a trade and investment mission to India, singing the praises of this emerging economy in a major speech yesterday at the Lowy ...

47. OECD and Asia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... more importantly a close neighbor of the US, with which it was negotiating a North American Free Trade Agreement.  In the next few years, four central European countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland ...

48. Questions on Japan
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... of the economy would be necessary for it to become a market leader for trade in financial, education, health, tourism, consulting and other services.  Turning now to politics, Japan has never been able ...

49. Global education in Japan
(Panorama/Society)

... I taught in the Faculty of Liberal Arts all dealt with various aspects of "globalization".  These courses included Issues in Economic Development, International Trade, International Finance, Economic Development, ...

50. Thought leadership for Australia
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... a vibrant, dynamic and interesting cultural life. Sinodinos goes beyond Australia's present preoccupation with resources trade and investment.  He argues for policies to encourage "smart manufacturing" to ...

51. Tim Harcourt's Economists' Corner
(Web Links / Blogs)

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

53. World Trade Organisation
(Web Links / Intergovernmental organisations)

54. International Trade
(Category)

The amount of fuss that is stirred up by discussions on international trade is just amazing. Just think about it. A transaction between someone in Seattle and someone in Vancouver is international trade.  ...

55. Globalization
(Category)

If the truth be known, we have been living globalization for an awefully long time. Humankind started its long march out of Africa and across the globe around 50,000 years ago. Trade routes like the Silk ...