ZURICH – It is all too easy to envy China. At current growth rates, the Chinese economy will double in size in only nine years, raising an e…
BEIJING – With China feeling the pressure from large-scale inflows of short-term capital, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE…
LONDON – A changing of the guard is underway at many of the world’s leading central banks. Haruhiko Kuroda is now installed as the governor …
YANGON – Interest in Myanmar (Burma) has become intense. Last month, Thein Sein became the first president of Myanmar to visit the White Hou…
BEIJING – The balance-of-payments figures that China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) released in April should have trigger…
TOKYO – Ms. Watanabe, age 40, is hesitant. Her mother, Mrs. Watanabe, is known for moving the world’s markets with the financial trading tha…
HONG KONG – Too often, debate about the relationship between the state and the market casts them as opposing forces locked in a zero-sum str…
NEW YORK – China’s successful transformation from a middle-income country to a modern, high-income country will depend largely on the reform…
ROME – For more than a decade, Asia’s economies have been on the move – and so have its people. The scale of migration from rural to urban a…
SHANGHAI – When you think about centers of technological innovation, Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Seoul are probably the first places that c…