Contents APEC: Challenges and Opportunities Preliminary pages 1. The Asia-Pacific Region: Confidence-Building in the Post-Cold War Era, by Paul Wolfowitz, 2. Dynamism of East Asian Economies: Retrospect & Prospect, by Sueo Sekiguchi, 3. The Institutional Framework for APEC: An ASEAN Perspective, by Hadi Soesastro, 4. A Post-Uruguay Round Agenda for APEC: Promoting Convergence of North A…
While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy of leadership's responses. Threats to China come from many fronts, Beardson shows, and by their number and sh…
China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the symptoms of decay are every…
Apa saja kunci sukses gebrakan ekonomi China sehingga bisa tumbuh dan maju pesat? Apa yang bisa dipelajari Indonesia untuk mengejar ketertinggalan?. China memang mereformasi habis-habisan dirinya sendiri. Mulai dari penerapan sistem kendali terpusat. Buku ini merangkum tulisan yang memberi gambaran sejauh mana perkembangan dan kemajuan yang dialami China dalam iklim globalisasi ekonomi sekara…
The deep currency crisis which erupted in the beginning of July 1997 among the rapidly growing economies of Southeast Asia raises the question: "Have the rapid rates of growth in the late 1980s and early 1990s mortgaged the economic futures of these economies?" This book examines the economic bases for the crisis and characterizes the nature of the policy weaknesses that led to the crisis. Draw…
Contents: 1. Hooked 2. The five-star factory 3. The physical cost 4. The gold rush 5. The stirring masses etc.
The volume is essentially economic in its orientation: it contains both empirical findings and policy analyses dealing with trade among the United States and key ASEAN countries such as Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei and Thailand. However, the authors do extend their primary focus to include the contention that there exists a strong connection between external openness,…
Contents: Chap I : Economic situation Chap II : Management through planning and statistical systems Chap III: Finance and its management Chap IV: Banking Chap V: Organization and management of enterprises, etc.
The "Thirty-six Strategies" are well-known to the Chinese and are frequently applied in business practices. No one can pinpoint the exact period in which the thirty-six strategies were written, nor the exact combinations of strategies that constitute the thirty-six. However, through the years, scholars have expediently adopted the thirty-six strategies as a set of common tactics used by the Chi…
Buku ini memberikan informasi seputar AFTA. Meskipun secara penuh AFTA sudah diberlakukan sejak 1 Januari 2003, diduga masih banyak pihak baik pelaku bisnis, pejabat pemerintah maupun para peneliti yang pengetahuannya terhadap AFTA masih terbatas. Buku ini menguraikan sejarah atau latar belakang pembentukan AFTA. Kemudian juga dibahas mengenai "Aturan main AFTA", Aturan ini penting bagi mereka …