The Asian-Pacific community in the year 2000: Challenges and prospects

This volume contains papers compiled during an in-depth study on the region conducted by the Sejong Institute in the spring of 1991. The chapters in this volume offer a birds-eye view of on-going and potential developments in regional security, intra-regional trade and technology transfers, recent political developments and new pressures on alliance management requirements, the prospect for eco…

China review

These are the central questions that a group of China specialists address in China Review. The subject matters discussed in the book edited by Kuan Hsin-chi and Maurice Brosseau include major developments in the following areas: political leadership, national reunification, the armed forces, the dissidents' movement, law and order, China and the world, China-Hong Kong relation, the economy, the…

Myanmar: Beyond politics to societal imperatives

After reviewing the historical forces and human agencies which have shaped contemporary Myanmar, this book addresses healthcare and public policy provision, with suggestions as to what potential roles the international community might have in assisting Myanmar's future socioeconomic development.

Caribbean freedom: Economy and society from emancipation to the present

This reader of nearly sixty articles covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom from emancipation to the present-from Toussaint's Haiti to the more recent revolutions in Cuba, Grenada and the Dominican Republic.

Doing Business in Myanmar 2015: A guide for investors answering their almost …

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Overseas Chinese business networks in Asia

The overseas Chinese and the Chinese of Taiwan and Hong Kong are among the most dynamic business people in Asia. Making up around six per cent of the population of South-East Asia, ethnic Chinese business people control more than 70 per cent of the region's corporate wealth.

Leadership for the 21st century: Our labors today will shape our country's fu…

A sixth collection of speeches by the President of the Republic of the Philippines." Includes bibliographical references and index. ASEAN Recourses Centre copy signed by author."

Fighting for New Zealand: New Zealand in the 21st century

Here Mike Moore examines the implications of the post industrial economy, the emerging information age, and how New Zealand can best prosper within the global economy. He warns of the serious economic consequences of ignoring our social, intellectual and infrastructural deficits and makes a case for New Zealand's endangered middle class, advancing the significant proposition that New Zealand mo…

Development and displacement: women in Southeast Asia

The papers in this book focus on women in Southeast Asia, and demonstrate that Boserup's formulation is equally applicable in this region. The important feature of capitalism in developing countries seems to be its ability to undermine women's traditional spheres of power and influence while simultaneously creating new conditions for further dependence on men. Thus, as a result of inappropriate…

Political change and the economic future of East Asia

Over 400 alphabetically-organized entries cover Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia (Kampuchia), Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Individual entries provide detailed information and authoritative commentary for the central figures, political parties and organizations, political systems and structures, major events, and key documents, including constituti…