This book describes and analyses Indonesia's most serious economic crisis, against the general backdrop of economic decline in Southeast Asia. It also looks forward, considering Indonesia's immediate policy challenges to overcome the crisis, and dwelling on some of the longer-term policy challenges raised by the crisis.
In Global Paradox, John Naisbitt explores the new global environment of the 1990s and the enormous opportunities and challenges that countries, businesses and individuals will face in this period of growth and transformation at the end of the millennium.
In Global Paradox, John Naisbitt explores the new global environment of the 1990s and the enormous opportunities and challenges that countries, businesses and individuals will face in this period of growth and transformation at the end of the millennium.
Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues-and does so in a lively manner and without requiring any prior knowledge of economics by the reader. These include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as mistaken ideas about urban problems, income differences, male-female economic differences, as well as economics fa…
In this irresistible, groundbreaking book, Sheff takes us into the trenches of the Chinese technology revolution, introducing the major and minor players who are leading China into the twenty-first century. Players like Bo Feng, the charismatic former sushi chef who is now one of the leading venture capitalists in China. And Edward Tian, a national hero who has been described as China's Steve J…
In this irresistible, groundbreaking book, Sheff takes us into the trenches of the Chinese technology revolution, introducing the major and minor players who are leading China into the twenty-first century. Players like Bo Feng, the charismatic former sushi chef who is now one of the leading venture capitalists in China. And Edward Tian, a national hero who has been described as China's Steve J…
Contents: 1. Diagnosing America's economic crisis 2. Prosperity lost 3. The free-market fallacy 4. Washington's retreat from public purpose 5. The divided nation 6. The new globalization etc.
In The World in 2020, acclaimed commentator and best-selling author Hamish McRae paints a vivid competitive landscape in which culture and values will be the new sources of advantage for the industrialized nations. In the year 2020, all having embraced market capitalism, the North American, European and East Asian countries will be engaged in fierce economic competition. With each nation increa…
This twenty-sixth edition of the far east and Australasia 1995 provides a comprehensive guide to the many important political events and economic developments of the past year in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Readers and researchers will find an array of information in the opening section of updated material dealing with the background to this vast geographical area, …
Worldwatch offers a broader perspective on these issues by reaffirming the importance of other, less-publicized threats to global stability and security: the complex interactions between environmental degradation, poverty, and inequity; growing human populations; and the international proliferation of deadly weapons. Emphasizing the opportunities for creating a less vulnerable, more secure worl…