The Century for AsiaPEOPLE the necessary competencies in information and communication technology or ICT to flourish in the global new economy.Manila Bulletin
If you chart the Asian century from 1980, which was when China first opened up, we’ve had 40 years, and in the next 40 years we’ll see Asia become much more central to the global economy. It’s already larger than the rest of the world economy combined, but you’re also going t...
he raised the initiatives of joining with others to build a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI). The
Next year, in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, Asian economies will become larger than the rest of the world combined for the first time since the 19th century. Not only is Asia growing richer; as it becomes more integrated, it is also coalescing as a constructive force for global gove...
Asia’s growth stories Interactive The Asian Century, two years on: A look back Podcast How multinationals can capture the Chinese growth opportunity Article Article Interview-McKinsey Quarterly Asia at the speed of light: An interview with the head of ReNew Power ...
The Belt and Road refers to the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. The Belt and Road runs through the continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, connecting the vibrant East Asia economic circle at one end with the developed European economic circle at the other, ...
For most of the 20th century, Asia asked itself what it could learn from the modern, innovating West. Now the question must be reversed. What can the West’s overly indebted and sluggish (经济滞长的) nations learn from a flourishing Asia?Just a few decades ago, Asia’s two giants were...
Analysis of about 170,000 monitoring wells and 1,693 aquifer systems worldwide shows that extensive and often accelerating groundwater declines are widespread in the twenty-first century, but that groundwater levels are recovering in some cases. Scott Jasechko Hansjörg Seybold James W. Kirchner ...
which underwent this change in the 20th century, much of emerging Asia is doing so with slower growth. All this will compound the region’s economic problems. Countries that are growing old before they get rich are a threat to Asia’s rise, says Donghyun Park, an economic adviser at the ...
“The west's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end,” argues Kishore Mahbubani in his latestbook“Has the West Lost It?” Over the past five decades, hundreds of millions of people in Asia have been lifted out of poverty and many Asian economies have graduated to middle-inc...