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The Economics of the Korea Crisis
It would be understandable if the more than week-long war-like rhetoric on the Korean peninsula had long ago spooked investors [...]
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China’s Yuan: Can it Challenge the Dollar?
China has long had the ambition of seeing its currency, the yuan, challenge the hegemony of the U.S. dollar. If [...]
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Who Wants to be a Millionaire: Asia-Pacific Edition
Choose your birthplace carefully if you wish to be among the millionaires of the Asia-Pacific region. This is the obvious [...]
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Vietnam’s Economy: Sabotaged From Within
Last year saw a number of Vietnamese state-owned enterprise officials being arrested for economic crimes or “irregularities” at the companies [...]
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The Next Step in Burma’s Economic Opening
Burma’s fate continues to draw a lot of attention and a lot of economic interest. The country’s strategic location, combined [...]
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China’s Credit Dilemma
The October monetary statistics for China, released last Friday by the People’s Bank of China, show the second consecutive month [...]
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‘Shadow Banking’ in China
Xiao Gang, Chairman of the Bank of China (one of the “big 4” banks the Chinese government controlls), published an [...]
