The 12th Five Year Plan of China, approved by the National People?s Congress a few weeks ago, is being intensely…
It is unfair to compare tragedies in terms of their costs and impacts. But the scale of some tragedies is…
If the directions of economic policy proposed at the fourth session of the 11th National People?s Congress are successfully implemented,…
Is Asia getting caught in the ?middle income? trap? Unnoticed by many, some countries of Asia, which began their economic…
President Hu Jintao sounded a warning note during his lunar New Year visit to North China?s Hebei province. He urged…
No other growth story has captured the imagination of economists and socio-political analysts over the last couple of decades as…
Asia?s rise up the economic ladder has been accompanied by a few embarrassments. The latest is the revelation about the…
Is China an urban country or rural? Like quite a few other aspects of its economy, urbanisation in China also…
The story of SBI would hardly have figured in India?s contemporary management and industrial organisation literature had Rajesh Chakrabarti not…
Foreign aid has been the preserve of a group of rich and high-income countries. The Paris Club or the OECD…
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is visiting India after five years. While this is a stand-alone state visit, many have failed…
Whatever be the outcome from Cancun, it is unlikely to make a major difference to the struggle against climate change.…
Oil, gas and coal are three critical natural resources playing major roles in economic growth. All three are essential for…
The G-20 is more important and the balance of power remains with rich nations.
Cancun is in news again. Seven years ago, this coastal city in eastern Mexico was the venue for the 5th…
India will soon sign a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement with Malaysia. This will be the second bilateral CECA that it…
Mandarin is the most widely spoken language in the world followed by English. This, however, needs to be interpreted with…
FDI is often employed as the criterion for evaluating a country?s economic integration with the rest of the world. Both…
