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Author: Pedro Cerdan-Infantes, World Bank Indonesia has made an extraordinary commitment to education in the past decade. Since 2002 the government has had a constitutional mandate...
Since the 1980s, China’s economy has grown rapidly with an average annual growth rate of real GDP at about 10 percent. Today, the Chinese economy is...
Last week the Government of Canada kicked the CNOOC-Nexen can down the road for another 30 days, delaying the decision for up to a month after...
Author: Jeffrey Choi, ANU During the recent APEC Summit in Russia, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda faced each other amidst...
Author: Jayant Menon, ADB It was not long ago that the Malaysian development story was hailed as a model of FDI-driven, export-led industrialisation worthy of emulation...
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: Arthur Alexander, Georgetown University Japanese companies’ obsessive attachment to investment carries serious negative consequences because investment does not pay as well as it could. Too...
Author: Li Mingjiang, RSIS The past few years have been particularly eventful for the South China Sea dispute. The tensions and related diplomatic pressures exerted on...
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...