Australia could get more out of its carbon pricing scheme by focusing its emissions trading efforts on its neighbours rather than Europe. Carbon markets are the forefront of domestic climate policy in Australia. They are now also becoming a core question of diplomacy, as Australia looks to link its emissions trading scheme to that of...

Developing countries in Asia are growing steadily--in some cases rapidly--and becoming increasingly affluent. China, India, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Vietnam, and Lao PDR, all of which were classified by the World Bank as 'low-income' countries (LICs) at some point in the late 1990s/early 2000s, have now graduated to 'lower middle income' (LMIC) status. The international consulting...

Developing countries in Asia are growing steadily--in some cases rapidly--and becoming increasingly affluent. The big challenge for Australian aid policy-makers during the Asian Century will thus be to manage these contradictions emerging from a more affluent Asia. China, India, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Vietnam, and Lao PDR, all of which were classified by the World Bank...

Key Points: Asia literacy – literacy about the region – has been the dominant underlying rationale for public investment in research about Australia’s region leading to a strong focus on country based centres with a considerable area studies and humanities focus. This conventional Asia literacy strategy is prone to rent seeking, and is less effective...

Outlines some of the challenges faced by Asia's economic and political rise and shifts. On 8 July 2011, the Lowy Institute for International Policy hosted its eighth annual New Voices conference. The 2011 conference ‘Dynamic Asia’ adopted an Indo-Pacific regional focus. Never before in modern times have Asia and its future been so globally significant...