Services and commodities have fueled Indonesia's recent growth, but only manufacturing can create high quality jobs and help the country escape the middle-income trap.
The driving force behind the U.S. deficits and China’s surpluses lies not in exchange rates but in structural factors that built up over time.
China needs to tap the repressed potential in its private sector and speed urbanization.
A new worldwide monetary contraction could reverse many of the advances in globalization that the international community takes for granted.
Southeast Asia should guard against a potentially dangerous spillover from the Eurozone crisis by trimming sovereign debt and reigning in spending.
Popular myths about China's banking sector distract policymakers from the real reforms needed to change the country's growth model.
Thailand's new rice policy risks hemorrhaging public funds at a time when its economy desperately needs to improve its international competitiveness.
A soft landing for the Chinese economy may be difficult to engineer, as Beijing has exhausted many of the policy instruments necessary to revive growth.
Myanmar has recently taken rapid steps to liberalize its state-controlled economy in addition to its political reforms.
Spain had a stronger fiscal position and healthier bank balance sheets than many of its peers when the crisis began, but it still may end up having to leave the euro and restructure its external debt.