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"What Happened to India?" by Raghuram Rajan
Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph CHICAGO – Emerging markets around the world – Brazil, China, India, and Russia, to name the largest – are slowing.
"The Indian Miracle Lives" by Shashi Tharoor
Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph NEW DELHI – To hear some people tell it, the bloom is off the Indian economic rose. Hailed until recently as the next big success story, the country has lately been assailed by bad news.
"The Resistible Rise of Asia?" by Brahma Chellaney
Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph NEW DELHI – A favorite theme in international debate nowadays is whether Asia’s rise signifies the West’s decline. But the current focus on economic malaise in Europe and the United States is distracting attention from the many serious challenges that call into question Asia’s continued success. Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph To be sure, today’s ongoing global power shifts are primarily linked to Asia’s phenomenal economic rise, the speed and scale of which have no parallel in world history.
Don't throw out that broken toaster: it's key to our prosperity. Redesigning the economy so that all waste is reused or recycled would be good for business, according to two new reports. For centuries the global economy has been linear. Companies extract resources from the environment, turn them into products and sell them to consumers – who eventually throw them out. As a result we are burning through Earth's natural resources and wasting useful materials .
No-waste circular economy is good business – ask China - environment - 29 February 2012
Burma is at a crossroads. While the country's dramatic (and fragile) political opening is receiving plenty of attention, its leaders are also confronting some stark decisions about their economic future. After decades of economic isolation, the economy of Burma (also known as Myanmar) is badly in need of reforms than can better promote development. The choices that Burma's government makes in the coming months could well determine what the country will look like 30 years from now: an industrialized South Korea or a resource-cursed Nigeria.
Why Burma Shouldn’t Listen to the IMF - By Rick Rowden
"Shock-Proofing Asia’s Economies" by Noeleen Heyzer
Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph BANGKOK – Uncertainty and volatility have quickly become the “new normal” of the global economy. For several reasons, this turbulent external environment poses the most significant threat to Asia-Pacific growth in 2012.
"Asia Exposed" by Stephen S. Roach
Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph NEW HAVEN – Asian authorities were understandably smug in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Growth in the region slowed sharply, as might be expected of export-led economies confronted with the sharpest collapse in global trade since the 1930’s.