https://www.scmp.com/rss/329429/feed Charles Dunst is an associate at LSE IDEAS, the London School of Economics' foreign policy think tank, and a journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Foreign Policy, among other publications. He was previously based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (@CharlesDunst) en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com For nearly 60 years, export-led development strategies have propelled economic growth throughout the Asia-Pacific. The famous “four tigers” – South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore – rapidly sped up industrialisation by exporting goods in which they had a comparative advantage, moving quickly up the economic development ladder. Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and others later did the same. In theory, export-led growth works like this: a country’s economy becomes more efficient by shifting the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3086961/how-coronavirus-pandemic-will-push-developing-countries-delink?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3086961/how-coronavirus-pandemic-will-push-developing-countries-delink?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:57:41 +0000 A United Nations-backed court in Cambodia has for the first time found leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the ultranationalist regime of Pol Pot that terrorised Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, guilty of genocide. The verdicts against Nuon Chea, 92, and Khieu Samphan, 87, the two most senior surviving members of the regime, also included crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Both men were sentenced to life in prison. Chief Judge Nil Nonn, in a court on the outskirts of... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2173574/khmer-rouge-leaders-convicted-genocide-landmark-court?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2173574/khmer-rouge-leaders-convicted-genocide-landmark-court?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Nov 2018 06:56:33 +0000