- Are China's interest rates too high, or too low?
- Corruption in Indonesia and India may be way higher than estimated: why graft is so hard to calculate.
- As Myanmar's economy develops, its old buildings suffer.
- Vietnam's prime minister has delivered a new year's message on the need for reform, a speech 'unprecedented in its intellectual force and clarity. Among other things, it called for greater democracy, accountability, and transparency, as well as the need for a more competent, disciplined, and market-regarding state.'
- This doesn't seem terribly scientific to me, but FWIW: a map of the world's most and least emotional countries.
- Edward Snowden deserves clemency. No, he doesn't.
- Government spending dragging Japan back to economic health, says the NY Times.
- 'As a historian, he had the finest prose style since Gibbon'. A new book of letters reveals the the private Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Monday links: Vietnam, China interest rates, corruption, Snowden, Japan and more
Published 13 Jan 2014
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