There are over 1.1 million private housing units in Hong Kong Hong Kong is unlikely to follow Singapore’s example by increasing taxes for owners of luxury...
Author: Frederic Grare, Carnegie Endowment On 4 February, Afghan president Hamid Karzai and Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari met near London at the invitation of British...
Author: Miguel Alberto Gomez, DLSU Security experts at Kaspersky Lab — a Russian anti-virus firm — disclosed the existence of a large-scale cyber espionage operation in...
Author: Arvind Subramanian, PIIE The list of candidates to succeed Pascal Lamy as director-general of the WTO has just been finalised. Astonishingly, not one of...
China’s economy has bounced back. A return to accelerating growth in the fourth quarter breaks seven straight quarters of declining growth and draws a line under...
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,...
Author: Sylvie Démurger, University of Lyon China’s rapid economic development and the government’s policy towards encouraging higher inter-regional labour mobility have led to a massive rural–urban...
Author: Eric Knight, Oxford University Chinese companies are using innovative business models to change the cost structures and capabilities involved in delivering renewable energy technology. Through...