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Author: Pisit Leeahtam, Chiang Mai University After facing two violent street protests in the last two years, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s coalition government started 2011 in...
Author: Yiping Huang, Peking University China’s economic developments in 2011 closely resembled those of 2008: over-heating at the beginning of the year; moderating due to policy...
Author: Rajiv Kumar, FICCI The Luddites have won for the moment, with their recent protests following the Indian government’s decision to allow FDI in the retail...
Author: Kirill Muradov, HSE With the conclusion of the APEC meetings in Honolulu in November, another yearly cycle is about to draw to a close. Soon...
Author: Alicia Mollaun, ANU This year will be remembered as annus horribilis for Pakistan–United States relations. CIA contractor Raymond Davis kicked off the downward slide when...
Author: Andrew Fragomeli, University of Western Australia Barack Obama championed high-quality growth as a key focus of this year’s APEC Summit in Hawaii. But this goal...
Author: Sandy Gordon, ANU Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, would have been more politically comfortable had she left the issue of uranium sales to India rusting...
Author: Stephen Howes, ANU The founding institution within the World Bank Group is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). The only part of the...
Author: Gibson Bateman, New York For the Tamil people of Sri Lanka’s north and east, the end to conflict has not engendered the positive changes one...