Authors: Stephen Howes, Robin Davies and Ashlee Betteridge, ANU There’s a strong and welcome trend toward appointing the leaders of major international organisations through competitive processes...
Author: Jonathan Pincus, Harvard University The tight monetary policy that Vietnam introduced in 2011 has revealed deep fissures in the country’s political economy. These fissures have...
Benjamin Cha, managing director of HKR International. By Sofie Lisby Since the development of discovery Bay in Hong kong in the late 1970s, Hkr International has...
Author: Trevor Wilson, ANU Australia hosted a high-level government delegation from Myanmar this week, led by President Thein Sein. Thein Sein’s ambitious program of economic and...
Author: Gary Hawke, NZIER The best headline among the usual profusion of journalistic reviews of New Zealand in 2012 is ‘Trivial Pursuits: The big news of...
Author: Gregory Chin, York University and CIGI Without political fanfare, China took two more steps in internationalising its currency in early December 2012. On 4 December,...
A sea elf mascot named Qingqing and an emblem named "Colorful Floriculture" have been unveiled for the 2014 Qingdao International Horticulture Expo that will be held...
Author: Edward J. Lincoln, GWU If there is one conclusion that economists can draw with any certainty about the future of the Japanese economy, it is...
Since its establishment in 1991, the Xi'an High-Tech Industries Development Zone in Northwest China's Shaanxi province has made big strides toward its goal of becoming a...