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 28 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com At this point, only a fool would predict when the latest conflict between China and Japan is going to be over. Most everyone thought it would be finished last...

 27 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com From a strictly economic point of view, the structural change in the world economy is summed up by the term for the most “advanced” “emerging” nations, BRIC: Brazil /...

  21 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com Of the many elements that have gone into China’s stunning – and stunningly fast – economic growth, there is little doubt that the population-limiting “one child policy” has...

 15 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com Even before coming aboard here at EconomyWatch, we have long argued that one of the major aspects of the American crisis was the intellectual emptiness of those vaunted centers...

 13 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com The tiny West African nation of Benin has been a rare success story in a continent not full of them. It has long taken pride in its domestication of...

7 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com As we noted last week, there are several intriguing aspects to Germany’s current economic growth, which is not fantastic in absolute terms – 2.2% in the second quarter –...

  2 September 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com In most countries, the traditional “workers’ holiday” is May 1, usually known as May Day. In the eternal spirit of US “exceptionalism”, however, Labor Day is a three-day...

  31 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com One of the most striking developments of the Eurozone crisis has been the emergence of what might be called a “tough” Germany. As readers of this site know,...

25 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com One of our constant themes here at EconomyWatch is the importance of co-operation, both in general, and between emerging economic powers like, say, China and India. We believe this...

 23 August 2010. After years of being known for inefficiency, corruption and instability, Indonesia is emerging from the global financial crisis with a surprising new reputation — economic golden child. The country’s economy, the largest in Southeast Asia, grew at...

 18 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com At this particular time, one of the fabulous things for a Westerner living in Asia, or, indeed, anywhere outside the “developed” world, is the opportunity to see concretely the...

 17 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com Many lifetimes ago, I had the pleasure of advising the Master’s Thesis of a brilliant young man named Andres Edwards,  17 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political...

 16 August 2010. Israeli business executives here in Istanbul like to point out that most of the angry Turks who protested Israel’s deadly raid on a Turkish-led flotilla to Gaza this past spring do not know that their cellphones, personal...

13 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com We wrote yesterday about how India has been engaging in an "infrastructure confrontation" with China in the Himalayan region near Rohtang Pass. Today, we see how India's "other" -...

12 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com We have often said one of the most important conditions for a positive future in both Asia and the world in general is a good relationship between India and...