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Author: Nicole George, UQ As the 2012 Pacific Islands Forum got underway in the Cook Islands, regional media commentary focused on the high political profile of...
Author: Peter Drysdale, Editor, East Asia Forum There have been many studies of China’s regional income inequality, which is commonly asserted to have increased considerably since...
Author: Peter Drysdale, Editor, East Asia Forum After decades of struggle to overcome political repression and deprivation, Myanmar appears on the way to democracy. This achievement...
Author: Pradumna B. Rana, RSIS On 3 May 2012, on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Annual Meeting in Manila, ASEAN+3 took a number...
Author: Chalongphob Sussangkarn, TDRI The Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI) is a regional foreign exchange liquidity support mechanism that developed as a result of the 1997–98 Asian...
Author: Madhu Purnima Kishwar, CSDS ‘Development’ and ‘underdevelopment’ are politically loaded terms. Most ‘underdeveloped’ societies have a colonial past in which their people and resources were...
Author: Jiemian Yang, SIIS The Asian Century, or Pacific Century, has become a catchphrase that places great emphasis on economic dynamism and political power shifts. But...
Author: James Boyers, London In August 2007, India began a tender process to acquire 126 medium-range, multi-role jet fighters to replace its ageing Mirage fleet. In...
Author: Shankaran Nambiar, MIU, Malaysia The Najib government has given renewed focus to Malaysia’s international economic relations, including liberalisation and increasing interaction with the global economy....