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…
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…