Why the shift of economic gravity to Asia is not a power shift
Author: Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto China and India are the world’s only large economies with positive growth in 2009. Future projections show China catching up with the U.S. economy by 2020...
View ArticleObama’s Asia Pacific presidency still not out of the woods at home
Author: Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto The central domestic challenge for America in 2010 is economic. Unemployment is above 10 per cent and probably has not yet peaked, the recovery in economic...
View ArticleThe G8/G20 in Canada—what can we expect?
Author: Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto The G20 meeting this weekend in Canada has a heavy agenda and high expectations. Leaders face a serious challenge to demonstrate determination to follow...
View ArticleThe G20 after Toronto: Now for the hard part
Author: Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto The Toronto meeting of G20 leaders on June 26-27 was a stop on the road to Seoul. Leaders took a few significant steps forward but not enough has yet been...
View ArticleCatch-22 for the G20
Author: Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto The G20 Seoul Summit will be the first such global economic meeting to be hosted by a non-G7 country. In their continued focus on the significant agenda for...
View ArticleDid the Seoul G20 summit deliver?
Author: Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto G20 leaders remained focused on their global recovery agenda, at their Summit in Seoul, but as the sense of urgency in the crisis fades so too does the...
View ArticleChina and global economic governance: History matters
Author: Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto China’s embrace of global institutions and their rules and norms has helped guide its spectacular economic growth and integration into the world economy. But...
View ArticleAsia’s evolving economic institutions: Roles and future prospects
Author: Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto With no clear leader and few strong incentives for deep integration, Asian cooperation for the foreseeable future is likely to be intergovernmental, with...
View ArticleWill Asia step up to the global challenges of 2012?
Author: Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto The euro crisis hijacked the G20 Summit in Cannes — even by late December Europe’s leaders still had not fully diagnosed the problem, but without an accurate...
View ArticleStriking a balance: Asian institutions and global influence
Author: Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto Asia’s rapid economic ascent raises expectations in the rest of the world of greater political influence, even leadership, by Asian countries and questions...
View ArticleCreating architecture to sustain Asia’s spectacular progress
Author: Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto Economic institutions, international and national, are key factors in Asian development strategies. Those economies which have exhausted the growth gained...
View ArticleClimbing the value chain
Authors: Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto, and Tom Westland, IHEID Domestic financial liberalisation and market opening have progressed at different speeds in Asian economies over the past four...
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