Considering the many similarities between India and Indonesia, a comparative approach to the issues that both countries face can provide potential solutions to their development challenges.
America’s rebalancing strategy must extend to South Asia if it is to succeed.
Urbanization holds the key to a more innovation-driven growth model and sustained consumption demand in China, but the process also presents several challenges.
In China, growth, especially in the past decade, was heavily subsidized by hidden transfers from the household sector in the form of an undervalued currency, low wage growth, and most importantly, low interest rates.
China's weak social safety net has helped to create China's high savings rate primarily because it is the consequence of the erosion of Chinese household wealth.
Policy distortions, shifting labor migration patterns, and higher education enrollments are creating labor shortages and skill-mix problems in China.
China is criticized for becoming more assertive, aggressive, and bullying, but in reality it should be seen as too reactive.
Some observers see Xi's varied contacts with the West and his experience being the son of one of the prominent figures of the revolutionary era as providing clues that he will be more forceful in steering the collective leadership.
As its economy decelerates, India has a golden opportunity to look east and sustain high growth rates for years to come.
To fully rejuvenate its economy, Malaysia needs to become an ethnically blind society run by an ethnically blind government.