ASEAN The BRI and the Asian region: Impacts and responses February 26, 2020 0 Image Credit: International Conference on Belt and Road Initiative by UNCTAD/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 By Amitendu Palit. China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI) has…
Business Government support or private investment? Developing community-based tourism on Taiwan’s east coast September 9, 2019 0 Written by Giulia Mengato Image credit: Hualien, Taiwan by P /Flickr, license CC BY 2.0 While corporations are typically singled out as the main perpetrators of exploitation, governments have…
Africa The Chinese model in Africa and its wider challenge August 27, 2019 2 Image Credit: Fancy a climb? by Carsten ten Brink/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. By Tom Harper. Throughout its history, China’s rulers have often sought to present it as…
Bangladesh Towards a better performing and more ethical civil service in Bangladesh March 22, 2019 0 Written by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, Taiabur Rahman, Kazi Maruful Islam, Christian Schuster and Kim Sass Mikkelsen. Effective governance is essential for economic development and hence it…
China Five years on: The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration March 15, 2019 0 Written by Jon Taylor. In February 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the creation of the ‘Jing-Jin-Ji’ (JJJ) metropolitan region in order to integrate the economies…
China The interaction between urbanisation and house prices in China March 13, 2019 0 Written by Wei Bu and Yunyun Luo. Over the past decade, the rate of urbanisation in China has increased from 29.92 per cent in 1997…
China PRD, YRD and JJJ: The rise of Alphabet China March 8, 2019 0 Written by Salvatore Babones. China has been the economic success story of the century (so far). Although its growth may now be slowing, China's gross…
China China’s X-Factor: managing change November 23, 2018 0 Written by Hugh Peyman. ‘What does China have that enables it to grow so fast for so long?’ I was asked in London some five…
China Chinese development finance and the Andean Amazonian infrastructure boom November 1, 2018 0 Written by Rebecca Ray. Diplomatic ties may be fraying between the US and China, but the United States' traditional economic partners in Latin America are…
Africa Will Africa be able to make use of Chinese development finance for sustainable development? October 17, 2018 0 Written by Marina Rudyak. Africa’s population is expected to double by 2050. Already today, 60% of Africans are below the age of 25. To give them…
