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How to prevent economic Japanification
Asia focus, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 10/02/2020
» At the annual meeting of the American Economic Association last month, eminent economists warned that Western economies risked "Japanification": a future...
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Human capital development lessons from East Asia
Asia focus, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 18/02/2019
» Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Education does not just enable individuals...
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Education in the age of automation
Asia focus, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 24/09/2018
» As digital technologies and automation have advanced, fears about workers' futures have increased. But the end result does not have to be negative. The key is...
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How Asia can tackle US trade wars
News, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 02/04/2018
» Over the past five decades or so, Asia's economies have relied largely on an export-oriented development model to support rapid economic transformation and growth....
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Can Moon's J-nomics save South Korea's economy?
News, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 22/05/2017
» South Korea's new president, Moon Jae-in, a former human-rights lawyer representing the centre-left Democratic Party, has his work cut out for him. Though North...
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The struggle to make more babies
News, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 26/09/2016
» South Korea is facing major demographic challenges. The total fertility rate (the number of children per woman), at 1.24, is one of the lowest in the world, and...
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How slow will China go? Its neighbours offer valuable clues
Business, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 25/07/2016
» China's economic performance over the last few decades has been outstanding. Despite possessing very different institutions than those seen in the advanced economies,...
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Maintaining the Emerging Economy Growth Engine
Business, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 21/03/2016
» The world's emerging economies seem to be losing their dynamism. Countries that only a few years ago were being hailed for their resilience in the face of a global...
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Closing Asia's Emerging Skills Gap
Business, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 18/01/2016
» Asia is facing a human-capital challenge. Over the last three decades, significant gains in workforce size and quality helped Asia to become a hub of global supply...
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Greece should take comfort from Asia's recovery
News, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 18/07/2015
» Asian countries have been watching the Greek crisis unfold with a mixture of envy and schadenfreude. When they experienced their own financial crisis in 1997,...