Dalam buku Asia Hemisfer Baru Dunia: Pergeseran Kekuatan Global ke Timur yang Tak Terelakkan, Kishore Mahbubani mengulas dengan bukti-bukti keberhasilan negara di Asia yang berkembang menjadi kekuatan utama dunia, terutama China dan India. Namun, yang menjadi ironi adalah ketika kekuatan-kekuatan baru dari Asia itu tumbuh dengan mengadopsi nilai-nilai Barat, kini justru Barat mulai merasa teran…
In August 1998, the Asian currency crisis that had started in mid-1997 metastasized into a global financial crisis with the devaluation of the rouble and a declaration of a Russian Government default on its internal debt. Is this the first wave of such crises the world will see in the future? One common feature among the countries that have fallen victim to the crisis is that they were all…
Japan's failed revolution: Koizumi and the politics of economic reform asks why, despite all the high expectation's, the Japanese public's desire for economic reform, and leadership of a majority coalition in a parliamentary democracy, the reformer prime minister Koizumi has not achieved the economic reforms expected of him since he surprisingly attained power over a year ago. this book expl…
Armed with a thorough knowledge of Asia, Jim Rohwer is a benevolent but sharp witness of the region's fortunes. He gathers hard facts and opinions from impeccable sources and builds around them a very compelling picture of Asia's need to feed on the best standards America can offer. Asia ought to be selective in the process, and Jim Rohwer offers penetrating views on how the countries of the re…
This book contains: 1. Economic crisis and growing intraregional tensions 2. The economic development of Central Asia in the 1990s 3. Basic problems of market transition in Central Asia 4. Adapting globalization 5. Foreign trade and investment 6. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: The economic consequences of membership in the World Trade Organization 7. Central Asia and the Asian-Pacific Region…
The world is running short of energy-especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resulting price increases, threaten industrialized civilization, the global economy, and our entire way of life. In Confronting Collapse, author Michael C. Ruppert's, a former LAPD narcotics officer turned investigative journalist, details the intricate connections between money and energy, including…
This collection of papers is only a subset of a much larger body of papers, the result of a collaboration among about 50 scholars from the Asia Pacific region, which have been commissioned under the so-called "Quadrilateral Project." That project was jointly sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley; the University of Tokyo, the Centre for Strategic an…
The contents of this book: Part 1 The Singapore Economy Part 2 Industriual Relations Part 3 Public Enterprises and the government
This book is a calmer look at Asian economies than has usually been produced in the midst of the current frenzy about financial crises among the Asian Tigers, and a somewhat more reassuring one (without being overly optimistic). The technical presentations are well done and reliable, based as they are on in-depth studies. Part 1 : Growth and development in Asia - Introduction - Welcoming rem…
The current economic crisis in East Asia is unprecedented in world economic history. It seemed the economic strength of the region, until very recently, would just keep growing. Now, the macroeconomic achievements of Asia are under threat and the economies of North America and Europe are feeling the results. This book brings together the thoughts of leading experts on the Asian economy and p…