Asia A bright future for China’s cashless payment systems in Indonesia March 26, 2020 0 Image Credit: Support Alipay and WeChat Pay by N509FZ/ Wikimedia Commons, Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Written by Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat. There has been much…
Asia Pakistan and the foreign remittance sector March 23, 2020 0 Image credit: Currency Exchange by Images Money /Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Arhama Siddiqa. Remittances make up around 86 per cent of the secondary income balance of…
China Challenging times for China’s economy: The need for change and effective leadership February 28, 2020 0 Image Credit: Foxconn - Milwaukee by Robert Geiger/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Chris Rowley. The phenomenal speed and size of China’s economic growth…
Belt and Road Initiative Job insecurity, labour contestation and everyday resistance at the Chinese-built Lamu port site in Kenya February 26, 2020 1 Image Credit: Image provided by the author. Written by Elisa Gambino. Approaching the berth area of the Lamu port construction site one morning, the shouts…
Belt and Road Initiative Can the BRI resolve China’s economic woes? February 19, 2020 0 Image credit: China by tonynetone/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Sriparna Pathak. The terms most commonly associated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are…
Asian tigers Hong Kong’s balancing act: Fiscal conservatism, northbound financial flows and poverty June 5, 2019 0 Written by Damian Tobin. Image Credit: Hong Kong – 3 Giants in the Fog by D. Julien/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. Recent GDP data for Hong…
Asia Does China want to globalise the renminbi? May 20, 2019 1 Written by Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat. Image credit: Dennis Sylvester Hurd/Flick, license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 In recent years there seems to have been an ongoing effort on the part…
China China’s banks are struggling – but don’t blame just them April 19, 2019 0 Written by Sara Hsu. China’s banks are facing strong headwinds as the authorities attempt to keep their risks down and liquidity up. The crackdown on shadow…
ASEAN Thailand’s 2019 election: what’s in it for regional economic integration? November 12, 2018 0 Written by Kaewkamol Karen Pitakdumrongkit. In May 2014 the Thai military staged a coup which overthrew the democratically elected government. After long delays, the Kingdom is…
China Responses to the sharing economy in Japan and China July 12, 2018 0 Written by Tomoo Marukawa. The concept of “sharing economy” was first proposed by Botsman and Rogers’ book “What’s Mine is Yours,” which was published in…
