Public finance 13/10/2020 – by Dereje Alemayehu, Hans Dembowski In the driver’s seat African governments must make economies more productive, gear them to sustainability and ensure their own financial viability Read
Political systems 16/09/2020 – by Praveen Jha Fighting poverty The comparison of India with China shows that formal democracy does not necessarily lead to more development-oriented governance Read
Asian giants 15/09/2020 – by Praveen Jha China is ahead of India Statistics show that Communist China has been outperforming formally democratic India for decades Read
Fossil fuel industry 29/04/2020 – by Nora Sausmikat, Quirin Jetschke China continues to finance coal power around the world China’s energy policy is full of contradictions Read
Retirement provisions 24/03/2020 – by Felix Lee From the iron rice bowl to the filial piety law China’s one-child policy is having catastrophic consequences for millions of pensioners Read
Tuberculosis 19/03/2020 – by Roli Mahajan Never disrupt treatment To make the world TB free, funding must increase dramatically Read
Blog 11/02/2020 – by Katja Dombrowski Coronavirus hurts Mauritius though no-one is infected so far Mauritius is a very small country far away from China – but its economy has close ties to that country Read
Air pollution 08/01/2020 – by Aditi Roy Ghatak Blue-sky policy Our Indian contributor is impressed by Beijing’s efforts to curb air pollution Read
Digital surveillance 29/08/2019 – by Felix Lee No one can opt out China introduces points system for rating social behaviour Read
Illicit labour 02/08/2019 – by Sally Atkinson-Sheppard Criminal girls Criminal gangs have similar gender dynamics in Bangladesh and China Read
Global affairs 11/07/2019 – by Doris Fischer, Hans Dembowski Pecking order of nations Arrogant US approach is boosting nationalism in China and undermining multilateral policymaking Read
