The recent privatization of Malaysia’s largest car company, previously a flagship state enterprise, could herald real change, but much more is needed to rejuvenate the country’s ailing automobile sector.
China needs to enact tighter monetary policies in order to raise household consumption and rebalance toward a more sustainable growth model.
In the absence of clear indications of the direction Kim Jung Un intends to take, firm resistance to provocations will be a steadying influence.
China is becoming an increasingly significant economic partner for Latin America. But its rise is part of a broader, long-term shift towards a world in which emerging markets have greater economic weight.
To set China on a path to sustainable development, its leaders will have to overcome vested interests in order to reform the country's fiscal system and tight controls over land and labor.
The causes of China’s unbalanced growth are often misunderstood in the West. As national and global conditions change, however, the policies that served China well in the past may need to be reconsidered.
Mitt Romney's tough talk on China conceals some assumptions that, if translated into policy, could set the two great powers on a collision course.
By 2030, China has the potential to be a modern, harmonious, and creative high-income society. But achieving this objective will not be easy.
If Beijing wants to deal with the issues that have spawned rising social unrest, it needs to reshape China’s economic institutions and control over basic resources in ways that moderate, rather than exacerbate, disparities.
Rising income, not the one-child policy, has driven down China's fertility rate. The policy has outgrown its limited purpose and should be ended to reverse lingering gender imbalances.