http://www.globalasia.org 2012-02-05 13:35:20 All rights reserved. When the US financial crisis triggered the Great Recession that afflicted much of the world in 2008-2009, policy makers in the US and elsewhere clearly understood that their economies needed massive stimulus measures, and fast. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N4_Winter_2011/Jeff_Madrick.html Cover Stories 2011-12-26 09:15:30+0900 Even as the 17 European Union countries that use the euro agreed at a summit in Brussels in December to a treaty that would submit their respective government budgets to greater fiscal discipline, uncertainty persists about whether Europe is finally on a road to recovery from its debt crisis. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N4_Winter_2011/Juergen_von_Hagen.html Cover Stories 2011-12-26 09:15:30+0900 China stands out as a silver lining in the clouds that hang over the global economy, and there is much the country can do to assist a recovery in the US and Europe, such as stimulating demand in its domestic economy. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N4_Winter_2011/Zhang_Yunling.html Cover Stories 2011-12-26 09:15:30+0900 China’s surging growth and huge domestic market have long fueled dreams that once its consumers are unleashed rising demand will help heal ailing Western economies. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N4_Winter_2011/John_Berthelsen.html Cover Stories 2011-12-26 09:15:30+0900 As Europe continues to reel from its financial crisis, policy-makers there would do well to cast an eye on the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 and other emerging market crises of that decade to avoid the pursuit of remedies that will only make things worse, argues Hyun Song Shin. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N4_Winter_2011/Hyun_Song_Shin.html Cover Stories 2011-12-26 09:15:30+0900 While Asia’s leading economies have been largely immune from the current European economic crisis, the long-term prospects are perilous unless the region uses its strength to assist the global economy. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N4_Winter_2011/Choong_Yong_Ahn.html Cover Stories 2011-12-26 09:15:30+0900 No one can dispute the strides Asia has made in bringing strong economic growth to the region over the past five decades, lifting income levels and reducing poverty in country after country. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N3_Fall_2011/David_Arkless.html Cover Stories 2011-09-19 09:15:30+0900 Asia is not without notable examples of women who have made it to the top in the political arena, but that does not mean the gap between male and female participation in politics is anywhere near being closed. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N3_Fall_2011/Hu_Shuli.html Cover Stories 2011-09-19 09:15:30+0900 With human trafficking a continuing problem in Asia, the international community needs to go beyond current ways of thinking and see trafficking from the perspective of the victim. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N3_Fall_2011/Shanthi_Dairiam.html Cover Stories 2011-09-19 09:15:30+0900 Across Asia, the pressures of rapid economic growth and increasing urbanization are reshaping the way Asian women have traditionally defined - or had defined for them - their identity, their roles and their relationships with men. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N3_Fall_2011/Petula_Ho_Sik-ying.html Cover Stories 2011-09-19 09:15:30+0900