Business Patterns in politics on palm oil June 7, 2019 0 Written by Otto Hospes. Image Credit: Oil palm by CIFOR/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The recent controversy between Indonesia and the EU over the revised EU Renewable Energy Directive…
Asia Sri Lanka’s port development and the role of the BRI May 24, 2019 0 Written by Pabasara Kannangara. Image credit: Katharine Adeney (All Rights Reserved). Sri Lanka is strategically located at the centre of the Indian Ocean and is in…
Development India’s General Elections 2019: The potential electoral consequences of demonetisation April 30, 2019 1 Written by Kunal Sen. In the campaign leading up to the Lok Sabha elections in spring 2014, one of the more important promises that Narendra…
ASEAN Sub-groupings and a shifting role for ASEAN April 10, 2019 0 Written by Mathew Davies. Any long-term watcher of Southeast Asia knows that they have to be prepared to master a number of acronyms and opaque…
China Towards a new understanding of ageing and care in urban China March 12, 2019 0 Written by Jason Powell. There has been a wide range of academic monographs and articles published recently on ageing and care in Asia. Much of…
Bangladesh Designing Better Financial Products for Low-Income Populations October 18, 2018 0 Written by Tasnuba Sinha Financial inclusion has accelerated globally in the past decade. Millions of people have now been brought into the formal financial system…
Banking China’s economic reforms with particular reference to interest rates: Progress and prospects September 25, 2018 0 Written by José R. Sánchez-Fung. China’s reforms since 1978 resulted in considerable success in terms of economic growth and development. However, moving to the next…
China Urban poverty and China’s globalism: what’s the relationship? April 23, 2018 1 Written by Dorothy J. Solinger. China’s Party chief and President, Xi Jinping, has boastfully publicized his regime’s firm intention to eliminate poverty by the year…