The Press Room contains a selection of news articles written about GIFT’s work. It includes footage from news channels across the world and televised interviews with Chandran Nair talking about globalisation, consumption and leadership in Asia.
It also includes press releases published by GIFT about each of our programmes and project partners from the past five years to the present day.
In the run-up to his appearance at the Auckland Reader's and Writer's Festival on 9 - 13 May, Chandran Nair talks about what capitalism is without consumption to one of New Zealand's foremost journalists, Kim Hill, on New Zealand's national radio show, Saturday Morning with Kim Hill.
Chandran Nair, author of Consumptionomics, paints a seemingly grey future where basic resources are constrained in the face of population pressures. "Bling is out" and "less is more."
While Asians appreciate the dangers of a failed state in Afghanistan, Western military intervention, in their view, is not the solution.
Chandran Nair writes about how the current economic model appears to blindly advocate that technology and free markets can be the main drivers of human progress and development,. First published in the South Asia Journal, Issue 4, April 2012.
Chandran Nair, author of "Consumptionomics: Asia's Role in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the Planet," talks about the need to promote an alternative to Western consumption-fuelled capitalism. As he explains in his book, the assumption of limitless resources, which formed the basis of the western economic model, can hardly be applied in our context.
中国限制稀土出口，欧美日告上世贸组织（WTO）；澳洲莱纳斯（Lynas Corporation）重新启动西澳稀土矿，并将高污染的稀土提炼厂转移到马来西亚。两个事件都有一个共同点：期望取得廉价稀土，并将社会与环境成本留给第三世界国家承担。
As economic power shifts from west to east, talk of an Asian century is once again in the air. President Barack Obama’s unveiling of a new defence strategy with the Asia-Pacific region at its heart merely underlines the trend, writes Chandran Nair.
After being largely closed to the world for half a century, Myanmar is now starting to open up. But the country faces a tricky future. In its quest to find a development model for alleviating poverty and creating an equitable society, writes Chandran Nair, it must not get caught up in the euphoria of rapid growth at any cost.
A growing number of businesses are seeking to manufacture products in a more sustainable way but some experts argue that policy-makers should also play a more active role.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the main actors fostering economic growth and socio-environmental development in Cambodia, writes Ho Yeung Liu of GIFT.