There's no putting Asia's Gini back in the bottle

India's relations with Denmark have been frozen since 2011 following the Danish High Court ruling against the extradition of Kim Davies in connection with the incident of 1995. In a rare display of anger, India froze senior official-level contacts ...

In this year's Global Peace Index (GPI), Singapore is the 16th most peaceful out of 162 countries, seven places up from last year's ranking. Singapore, Japan and Bhutan are the three Asian countries among the top 20 in the world. Singapore's GPI ...

Reducing inequality should be the main focus of China's future growth strategies Rationality is not a personality trait associated with stock investors en masse. And so it proved recently when global markets plunged in response to news that ...

This CAI paper is part 2 of a two-part series. It follows on from part 1, titled, Africa and South America part 1: Perspectives on inter-regional cooperation. In this second part of the series, insights derived from Brazil's experiences over the ...

The American political scene since 2000 is conventionally depicted in high colour. For much native—not to speak of foreign—opinion, the country has cartwheeled from brutish reaction under one ruler, presiding over disaster at home and abroad, to ...

The case of the newborn baby freed from a sewer pipe in China last month that has horrified and transfixed the world is the tip of an iceberg in more senses than one. A Beijing newspaper reports that the hospital which specialises in treating ...

Krishnan Srinivasan is a former Indian foreign secretary and fellow at SCAS, Uppsala Many dire predictions about China's rise have proved wrong China is overheating, over-cooling, facing a middle-income trap; manufacturing is slowing, corruption is ...

Emerging from the ranks of one of the world's poorest nations to second only to the United States, China is destined for a place in the history books. But history may also record the heavy price paid by the Chinese people and will continue to pay ...

| The poster boy of Indian entrepreneurs of the 21st century, Narayana Murthy, is back in business at Infosys the third biggest Indian tech firm with a renewed mission to reverse the slide that had happened in his absence. Of course the economic ...