The development of the SEZs has undoubtedly been a powerful growth engine for domestic and regional markets in Southeast Asia. It is, however, greatly irresponsible and unethical to overlook their immense social byproducts.
[IT] Dopo un netto deterioramento della stabilità e della sicurezza durante l’ultimo decennio, il bilancio globale del 2020 è rimasto pressoché invariato. Questa potrebbe apparire un’affermazione troppo ottimistica in un anno dominato dalla pandemia di COVID-19, eppure è supportata dai dati contenuti nella 52a edizione del SIPRI Yearbook.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is regarded as the biggest free trade agreement
(FTA) ever signed. This mega deal involves fifteen countries of the Asia-Pacific region: the ASEAN group –
from where the pact officially originated – plus Australia, New Zealand, China, South Korea and Japan. The treaty
is expected to bring substantial advantages for ‘Factory Asia’, particularly for complex global value chains (GVCs)
– that is to say, for those goods and activities having more than one national border crossing in their production
processes.
[IT] Il 1° febbraio 2021 i generali del Myanmar hanno messo fine all’esperimento di democrazia “disciplinata”, a cui loro stessi avevano dato inizio appena dieci anni, prima realizzando un ossimoro politico: un colpo di stato militare quasi “a norma di legge”.
Giovanni B. Andornino (T.wai & University of Turin) is the author, along with Wang Qinghong, of the essay “Philanthropy and Social Innovation in China” in volume 2 of “China and the World: The Long March Towards a Community of Shared Future for Mankind” (Il Mulino, 2021).
