By Chau Hoang — To catapult Vietnam up the ranks of the world’s leading economies, Hanoi has resolved to turn the country into a “start-up nation” by 2020. The government plans to implement regulatory and financial measures to coax one…
In this episode, we assess China’s latest Five-Year Plan. For China no document has reflected the legacy of its Soviet-style economic planning and Marxist-Leninist system than the release every five years of a new, comprehensive blueprint for social, economic, and…
By Esther Sainsbury — U.S. president Barack Obama recently said that he was “confident” Congress would pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal in 2016. But with no apparent effective legislative strategy, the conclusion of Obama’s presidency fast approaching, and…
Rajya Sabha elections take place on June 11; Andhra Pradesh is the likely new home of the Westinghouse nuclear power plant; Gujarat announces its start-up policy for the IT industry; Karnataka suspends Uber and Ola; Rajasthan repeals hundreds of obsolete…
The CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies released a new study assessing China’s 13th Five-Year Plan. The report Perfecting China, Inc. by Scott Kennedy and Christopher Johnson was rolled out on May 23, during a public event at CSIS. The…
By Sarah Watson — The ongoing negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a free trade agreement among countries in the Indo-Pacific, took a belligerent tone recently. Indian trade negotiators expressed their intention to take an aggressive posture on…
By Samyukta Balsubramani — India is one of the world’s fastest developers of solar energy and will be the largest driver of solar power expansion over the next 25 years. Moreover, there has been a rapid decline in the price…
By Sarah Watson — India’s Labour Bureau just released its latest quarterly report on employment in eight key sectors, responsible for over a third of India’s gross domestic product (GDP), covering the period from July to September 2015. Although the…
By Jun Saito — The revival of the Japanese economy after World War II has often been referred to as an “economic miracle.” Having started from the ashes of destroyed factories and infrastructure, in less than a quarter-century Japan managed…
By Claire Reade – We face a daunting challenge these days, trying to determine where change in China is possible. We cannot tell for sure why the Third Plenum economic reforms have not moved more effectively to make the market…
