Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest speech at Davos sends out a signal to the world that India is raising its status as an eminent power to determine the fate of the region and beyond. With a steady decline in the United States’ commitment to deliver public goods or services
What is it about trade agreements and TPP (now called CPTPP)? Why is final agreement often not final agreement and why do they risk unravelling?
Asian voters know open markets have lifted billions of them out of poverty
It was snowing heavily in Tokyo on Monday and through into Tuesday, as Canadian negotiators sat down with their counterparts from 10 other countries to try to solve the issues in the way of a deal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Pro-free-trade economist Michael Reddell argues the new version of the TPP is full of fishhooks and there's little evidence it will benefit New Zealanders.
Depending on the outcome, the United States and the world could begin the serious work needed to find new trade arrangements that acknowledge the relative waning of U.S. economic power and the rise of the rest. Or this month could mark the unraveling of the rules that have shaped global commerce for the past quarter century.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is back, even after being spurned by the biggest of its 12 intended members. When President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. a year ago, the prospects for the trade pact looked bleak. Instead, leaders from Japan’s Shinzo Abe to Canada’s Justin Trudeau worked through a series of disputes to forge an agreement to keep the framework alive. And while the hope is that the U.S. will return to the fold, the TPP -- with a new, tongue-twister of a name -- will prove an economic and political force in its own right. And one that doesn’t include China.
Vietnam’s leadership has strongly re-affirmed the important role that foreign direct investment has played and will be playing as one of the mainstays in Vietnam’s socio-economic development.
The strong development of industrial parks would make a large contribution to the domestic property market, according to experts.
Despite the best efforts of the global policymakers, we are eight years removed from the global financial crisis and still haven’t enjoyed the broad-based rebound we need to create a world that is safe and more prosperous. Yes, the stimulus provided by the central banks helped stabilize the Western economies, but where’s the catalyst that gets us back to the robust growth we enjoyed in prior decades?
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