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...
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: 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...
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...
The renewed fighting in Myanmar has drawn close to the Chinese border in the past week, and Chinese media are reporting that the government of neighboring...
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...