The book provides Perkins' account of his career with engineering consulting firm Chas. T. Main in Boston. Perkins claims that the NSA arranged for him to be hired by the firm, and that he was subsequently seduced and trained as an "economic hitman" by a businesswoman named Claudine Martin, who worked for Chas. T. Main. Perkins writes that his primary role at Chas T. Main was to convince leader…
This book contains about: 1. Law of the people's Republic of China on Chinese-Foreign equity joint ventures 2. Law of the people's Republic of China on Chinese-Foreign contractual joint ventures 3. Law of the people's Republic of China on foreign-capital enterprises etc.
This work provides assessments and analyses of the future relationship of oil and gas to the world economy, and offers policy recommendations for the Gulf region. The position of the Gulf producers in the world energy arena is no longer as secure and stable as it once was, with oil production from non-OPEC countries competing aggressively with OPEC oil. Other factors, including conservation and…
This volume provides a lively review of recent economic and political developments in Indonesia and addresses the issue of the country’s “Technological Challenge” from a variety of perspectives. These include the policy foundations, the analytical issues, case studies, international co-operation and transfers, as well as particular challenges at the sectoral level and among both large and…
The focus of this book is on the interaction between the European Community and national policy-making. Traditionally policy- making has been analysed within a national or a comparative framework in which the EC has mainly been regarded as an external factor. Here the European political system itself becomes the unit of analysis.
Traditionally, political scientists and economists have seen China as a single entity and business people have seen China as a single market. This book challenges the notion of a centralised and unified China, and outlines how provinces are taking on new economic and political roles, forced upon them by decentralisation.It is the most thorough data on contemporary Chinese provinces available an…
contains papers presented at a bilateral con- ference between Indonesians and Australians at the end of 1982. The Conference was sponsored by CSIS and the Department of Foreign Affairs of Australia
How South Africa Works reviews the Country's major economic achievments over the past two decades. Through numerous interviews with politician, business leaders and analyst, it examines the challenges and opportunities across key prosuctive sector including agriculture, manufacturing, services and mining ilustrative of the policy challenges that leaders face.
Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the past 200 years, wealth and poverty have diverged and evolved across the planet, and why the poorest n…
In World on Fire, Amy Chua shows that just the opposite has happened. As global markets open, ethnic conflict worsens and democracy in developing nations turns ugly and violent. Examining the actual impact of economic globalization across the world Chua shows how free markets have concentrated disproportionate, often spectacular wealth in the hands of resented ethnic minorities. These 'market- …