The blog’s new series on the likely demographic impact on the world’s Top 5 economies toda...
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ReadThe blog’s pre-Budget Outlook review of the major auto markets concludes today with Japan and ...
ReadJapan’s new government has embarked on a desperate gamble to restore economic growth after 2 d...
ReadWe are now nearly at the end of May, and still there is no sign of a sustained recovery in demand. T...
ReadStock market investors in Japan are feeling very pleased. The Nikkei share index has risen 40% since...
ReadThe blog’s 6 monthly review of global stock markets highlights a very unusual pattern since gl...
ReadThe arrival of the internet should make it easier to source key data from around the world. But inst...
ReadOn 29 June 1987, the blog was in S Korea on a business trip. With its ICI Korea colleagues, it arriv...
ReadChina’s economic growth has become more and more unbalanced over the past 10 years, as we disc...
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