East-West Center in the News

(2011-07-12) -- Also appears in: Andhra News, Hindustan Times, India Talkies, New Kerala, News Track India

(2011-07-22) -- Also appears in: Hornbill Unleashed, Malaysian Insider

(2011-07-20) "What you have is a jurisdictional issue, one country having the jurisdiction to go in and mine one kind of a product and another one having jurisdiction to go in and mine another one," East-West Center Sr. Fellow Allen Clark said.

(2011-07-22) Click HERE to listen to audio

(2011-07-22) -- Also appears in: Greenfield Daily Reporter

(2011-07-21) -- Also appears in: US Fed News

(2011-07-24) In the last several years, China's leadership has placed high priority on shifting its economy from a "factory model" based on low-cost manufacturing of products designed elsewhere, to one that includes more original Chinese technology and design. To do this, Beijing has instituted so-called "indigenous innovation" policies resulting in massive investments in research-and- development infrastructure and higher education.

(2011-07-25) -- Also appears in: Malaysian Insider, Malaysia Today

(2011-07-19) -- Also appears in: Marianas Variety

(2011-07-22) -- Also appears in: Maui News, Stamford Advocate, Washington Examiner

(2011-07-29) (Access by subscription only. EWC and University of Hawaii Manoa users who cannot access article by clicking on the title may contact a librarian for help at ris@eastwestcenter.org or 808-944-7345) Minja Kim Choe, a demographer at the East-West Center in Honolulu, says baby bonuses have been shown to influence the timing but not the number of births in the countries outside Asia where they've been tried. In the end, East Asia really needs a comprehensive, parent-centered approach to fertility, she wrote in an e-mail: “Only policies that reduce the economic, social, and psychological costs of raising children have some hope of raising fertility.”