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...
Author: Kirill Muradov, HSE Although Russia has intensified its efforts to join the WTO by the end of 2011, membership remains elusive. This may have direct...
Author: Wang Yong, Peking University For those interested in the internationalisation of China’s national currency, the renminbi, and hence anyone interested in the future of the...
Author: Ganeshan Wignaraja, ADB While rapid trade-led growth has enabled China to surge ahead of other developing economies in recent decades, a number of analysts are...
Author: Peter Warr, ANU Since the Asian financial crisis of 1997–98, the countries of East Asia have, in aggregate, run huge annual current account surpluses. The...
Author: Yawei Liu, Carter Centre No Chinese Communist leader has ever said democracy is a bad thing. When asked how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would...