This article was originally drafted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy for Issue 13 of the newsletter “Asian Trends Monitoring Bulletin” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. There have been a number of large-scale rural electrification projects around […]

The story is an example of how China’s booming economy, as well as lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty, has also generated unrest. read more

              The commodification of Africa’s universities and the policies of mass recruitment of new students are alarming given the limited number of institutions to accommodate the mass influx of learners from secondary schools to tertiary institutions and onto the labour market. With the whole […]

Fu Jun, Professor at the School of Government and Executive Dean at Peking University, on the role that China could play in global governance.  

It is no secret that ‘good governance’ and democratisation are top priorities of development agendas in the Pacific region. While numerous Pacific nations have made the transition to ‘democracy’, at least in technical terms, its realities have proved less than ideal and far from participatory. Perhaps not surprisingly, given the […]