Contents: About UNCTAD 1. Addressing development strategis in a globalized economy 2. Helping countries gain from global trade 3. Promoting economic growth and development-friendly investment 4. Helping countries modernize their economies 5. Addressing the challenges of the poor and disadvantaged 6. Annexes.
New and exciting economic, political, and social developments have been rapidly unfolding in Vietnam since the mid-1980s. Doi moi (revolution) marks a new stage in the economic development of Vietnam, transforming the failed command/control economy into a market-oriented one. The drastic changes brought about by doi moi within Vietnam and the international events that impinge on it have stimula…
Buku ini merangkum 10 esai ekonomi Prof. Dr. Boediono, yang ditulis dari tahun 1981 – 2007. Dalam buku ini beliau memaparkan langkah-langkah konkret bagi penyelesaian berbagai persoalan ekonomi yang dihadapi Indonesia. Ekonomi Indonesia, Mau ke Mana? Memberikan gambaran yang utuh tentang kapasitas Prof. Dr. Boediono sebagai seorang scholar, dosen, dan birokrat yang profesional. Buku ini akan…
A compact and lucid review of the major provisions of the most important trade agreement in history. Written in simple, non-bureaucratic language, the Guide's aim is "to guide the uninitiated but interested reader through a seemingly perplexing maze, and to do so in a practical, useful and usable way". Directed at the businessmen, but accessible to a wider audience as well, the Guide has …
Compassionate capitalism? How could that be? Doesn't "capitalism" mean "dog-eat-dog, law of the jungle, every person for himself"? Rich DeVos, co-founder and former president of Amway, responds to this hard-nosed approach with a resounding "no." He offers more than a vision in this extraordinary book. It is a plan. A proven plan. A plan that has made him one of America's richest men, and that h…
Over the past few years, energy security and sustainable development have moved up the global agenda. There are two main reasons for this: first, the impact of high and often volatile energy prices; second, concerns over environmental sustainability and particularly about the global climate. Both issues are critically important for Asia and the Pacifica region in which impressive economic growt…
A long-time undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals are to take out as many people in as public and devastating a way as possible. It's a furious race against the clock for Tamer and his unit to stop them before they can implement their plans. Yet as new as this war still is, the…
Mun'im dalam buku ini membongkar arsip, membeberkan fakta-fakta mengejutkan, mengungkap sejumlah nama tabu, di samping berbagi kisah dan cara ilmiah (kedokteran) forensik dalam membongkar kriminalitas dan kejahatan di negeri ini.
The paper is part of a series of issue papers commissioned in the context of ICTSD's Environmental Goods and Services Project, which address a range of cross-cutting, country specific and regional issues of relevance to the current EGS negotiations. The project aims to enhance developing countries' capacity to understand trade and sustainable development issue linkages with respect to EGS and r…
A little corner of freedom sheds new light on Soviet politics, revealing how a Russian nationalist movement used the protective umbra of environmentalism to become a cultural and political force, and how ordinary citizens used it to launch the first mass protests at the dawn of glasnost.