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Jaswant Singh

The Road to Asian Unity

NEW DELHI – Asia’s lack of institutions to ameliorate regional tensions is often lamented. But greater Asian unity may be arising by the bac…
Howard Davies

Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show

PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a funda…
Mahmoud Mohieldin

Getting Cities Right

WASHINGTON, DC – The developing world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with the number of city dwellers set to reach four billion in 2030…
Paul R. Ehrlich

The Food Threat to Human Civilization

PALO ALTO – Humanity faces a growing complex of serious, highly interconnected environmental problems, including much-discussed challenges l…

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Kanayo F. Nwanze May 18, 2013

Harnessing the Remittance Boom

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…
Richard Cooper, Richard Dobbs May 14, 2013

China’s E-Tail Revolution

SHANGHAI – When you think about centers of technological innovation, Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Seoul are probably the first places that c…
Shahid Javed Burki May 3, 2013

Pakistan’s Tipping Point

LAHORE – Pakistan’s moment of political truth is fast approaching. On May 11, some 40-50 million voters will elect a new national assembly. …
Mohamed A. El-Erian May 3, 2013

The Japanese Experiment

NEWPORT BEACH – After years of tweaks, Japan has now initiated a major shift in its policy paradigm, with reactions ranging from great optim…
Zhang Monan May 1, 2013

Controlling China’s Currency

BEIJING – It is indisputable that China is over-issuing currency. But the reasons behind China’s massive liquidity growth – and the most eff…
Raghuram Rajan Apr. 30, 2013

Why India Slowed

NEW DELHI – For a country as poor as India, growth should be what Americans call a “no-brainer.” It is largely a matter of providing public …
Martin Feldstein Apr. 29, 2013

China’s New Path

CAMBRIDGE – The opaque nature of China’s government makes it difficult to see where Chinese economic policy is heading, and thus how the Chi…
Stephen S. Roach Apr. 27, 2013

Long Live China’s Slowdown

NEW HAVEN – At 7.7%, China’s annual GDP growth in the first quarter of this year was slower than many expected. While the data were hardly d…
Andrew Sheng, Xiao Geng Apr. 22, 2013

Lending in the Dark

HONG KONG – The proliferation of China’s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow-banking system has been raising fears of possible…
Zhang Jun Apr. 18, 2013

Can China Adapt?

SHANGHAI – China’s “Two Sessions” – the annual gatherings of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative …

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