Blog Posts tagged with : Development
Clear and Clean Thinking on Asia’s Economic Future
Posted by on Apr 11, 2013The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has just published its economic outlook for 2013 – and it makes for sobering reading indeed.The economics are rosy enough: going by conventional “more is better” measures of GDP growth. “Developing Asia is bouncing back” the Report states, with GDP growth growing from 6.1 per cent in 2012 to 6.6 per cent in 2013 and...
Time for some clear – and clean – thinking on the South China Sea
Posted by on Dec 06, 2012Tempers are running very high in East Asia recently, due to a body of water that is, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere, or in the centre of it all. The South China Sea is claimed in varying portions by China, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, and Taiwan. China claims around 90 per cent, ditto for Vietnam and the Philippines. This is a long-...
Blinders on for the economics of energy
Posted by on Sep 04, 2012Several days before Mitt Romney was crowned king of the Republican Party, he outlined his vision for energy for America. As far as visions go, this one is crystal clear: he wants to make America self-sufficient in energy by 2020. To support it, he proposes five key measures, including removing environmental restrictions on coal product...
Life after the MDGs
Posted by on Aug 21, 2012Who remembers the Millennium Development Goals? That is, the actual goals, not the fact that they exist. For those of you who haven’t paid close attention to global development policy, the MDGs were targets established in 2000 [more] in the name of ending poverty by 2015. (For your refresher course, please click here) For the global deve...
Good reads on sustainability
Posted by on May 25, 2012In my post "A beginner’s guide to sustainability”, I promised that part two would be “A reader’s guide to sustainability”. That’s because I’m often asked what books I would recommend to someone who wants a good overview of the key issues on sustainability. It’s a reasonable question, but one that constantly begs a good answer beca...
