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Tue, October 26, 2021 | 16:32

Is doing business really dead?

Recent days have brought me a storm of emails and calls about the collapse of the World Bank's most widely watched annual report, Doing Business (DB), which ranks countries by how easily and efficiently small businesses can operate in them. On Sept. 16, the bank announced that it would discontinue the report after an independent investigation by the law firm WilmerHale reveal...

2021-10-05 16:57

Inter-Korean arms race

The past month has seen an escalating inter-Korean arms race with both Koreas testing their most advanced military systems.

2021-10-04 13:12

What we learned about Korea's economy during pandemic

The government and the Bank of Korea (BOK) have made vital policy changes aimed at withdrawing the liquidity that they released during the COVID-19 pandemic. The central bank has raised its base rate by 25 basis points, earlier than any other Asian economy, and the government tightened macro-prudential policy in order to control household debt. We believe that these efforts r...

2021-10-04 13:04

AUKUS and South Korea's dilemma

The Biden administration recently agreed to share its nuclear-powered submarine technology with Australia as part of the AUKUS partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The U.S. has called this arrangement a “one-off” deal, and it is the first time the U.S. has shared such technology, since it did so with the United Kingdom in 1958. The decision...

2021-10-04 13:00

To eat or not to eat (dogs)

By Jason LimWhen I lived in Korea in the late 1990s, I remember visiting the city of Jeonju in central Korean, famous for its bibimbap, and walking through a local market lined with dog meat butchers. They had dogs ― fairly large ones ― in cages lining the market street, and would actually be butchering them for customers for specific orders, not unlike the fish in aquariums ...

2021-10-03 17:00

Korea's big tech under scrutiny

Over the past few months, China dominated global headlines with its draconian clampdown on its national champions, notably tech giants like Alibaba. We continue to see the Chinese authorities pressure their big tech with talks of breaking up Alibaba, founded by billionaire Jack Ma. Other measures, including requiring tech companies to hand over user data to the government, th...

2021-10-03 17:00

America's unkept promise

During a tour of Afghanistan in January 2002, Joe Biden, then a United States senator and the chair of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, visited a group of Afghan children studying in a classroom. As he was leaving, a girl bravely pleaded with him for America not to abandon Afghanistan. She told him that she aspired to become a doctor in the future, just like her moth...

2021-09-30 17:15

Lartigue's Law: embrace critics

I can thank critics for some of my greatest personal and professional breakthroughs. I will never forget the newspaper columnist who accused me in a multi-part editorial of writing commentaries to become an “African-American hired gun” for think tanks.

2021-09-30 17:10

Digital equity for all ages

The growing number and share of older persons in the Asia-Pacific region represent success stories of declining birthrates and increasing longevity; the result of advances in social and economic development. This demographic transition is taking place against the backdrop of the accelerating Fourth Industrial Revolution. But COVID-19, with its epicenter now in the Asia-Pacifi...

2021-09-30 17:00

Asia-Pacific is world's most rapidly aging region, but are we ready?

Imagine it is the year 2050. In Asia-Pacific, one in four people will be over the age of 60; three times the number of older persons in 2010. With close to 1.3 billion senior citizens in less than 30 years from now, are countries in the region prepared to fully address the needs of older persons so that they age with dignity?

2021-09-30 16:59

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