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Economics, Policy & Regulation

WILL KURODA SURVIVE JAPAN’S SNAP ELECTION?

Japan | Newsmakers Just weeks after Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan, surprised the world with a bold plan to inflate Japanese assets and weaken the Japanese yen by buying 80 trillion yen ($680 billion) in Japanese bonds, exchange-traded funds and real estate investment trusts, prime minister Shinz Abe upstaged him by calling a snap election for mid-December, two years ahead of schedule.

Features

Recasting India: Entrepreneurship In The World’s Largest Democracy

Book Review Sengupta’s Recasting India envisions India’s real growth drivers as the millions of small entrepreneurs in the country and the "extraordinary enterprise of ordinary people.”

Award Winners

CHINA: A NEW ECONOMY IN THE MAKING

Annual Survey | Stars Of China Something’s changed this year. Midmarket innovators are taking the lead, Internet companies are now world-beaters, and banks are staking their ground in a whole new way.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

A LONG WAY OFF – RISE OF THE RENMINBI

FX Supplement 2014 | Renminbi Expansion Despite media hype, the renminbi still has some way to go before challenging the dollar as a major currency for international trade.

Award Winners

CHINA: BANKS FORCED TO INNOVATE IN FAST-CHANGING MARKET

Annual Survey | Stars Of China Nothing has characterized the recent pressure on traditional banking in China more than the challenge posed by Internet companies to the Big Four Chinese Banks

Banking

FOREIGN BANKS SECURE FOOTHOLD IN MYANMAR

Milestones | Myanmar After five decades of economic isolation, on October 1, Myanmar took its first big step into the global financial system, granting nine foreign lenders preliminary approval to operate in the country.

Banking

INDIA: MILLIONS ACCESS BASIC FINANCIAL SERVICES

Milestones | India In partnership with more than 50 state-run, cooperative and private banks, India’s National Democratic Alliance government has launched the world’s largest financial inclusion project to bring 75 million households into the banking fold by the end of January 2015.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Asia Pacific

WILL KURODA SURVIVE JAPAN’S SNAP ELECTION?

Recasting India: Entrepreneurship In The World’s Largest Democracy

CHINA: A NEW ECONOMY IN THE MAKING

A LONG WAY OFF – RISE OF THE RENMINBI

CHINA: BANKS FORCED TO INNOVATE IN FAST-CHANGING MARKET

FOREIGN BANKS SECURE FOOTHOLD IN MYANMAR

INDIA: MILLIONS ACCESS BASIC FINANCIAL SERVICES

INTERVIEW: IS THE ASIAN GROWTH MIRACLE OVER?

INTERVIEWS WITH THE AWARD WINNERS

MYANMAR’S FIRST CROSS-BORDER, NONRECOURSE PROJECT FINANCING

SAFETY FIRST – SAFEST BANKS IN CHINA

Sri Lanka Lures Foreign Direct Investments