This book contains: 1. The President on APEC 2. Building the spirit of community 3. Trade and investment liberalization and facilitation 4. Economic and technical cooperation 5. Select APEC 1996 documents
Economic regionalization and economic regionalism have become an important item in the national, regional and international agenda of almost alla countries in the Asia Pacific region. Economic regionalism has many forms, as it may be driven by different kinds of forces. The ASEAN countries are engaged in a growing number of regional economic cooperation arrangements.
This is an assessment of the transformation that took place in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The book addresses two central questions: how is the state socialist system of party monopoly and centralized planning dissolving? And how do these societies recreate the communist opposite - civil society and free markets? The contributors attribute the collapse of state socialism to ideological…
It is so rare in a democratic country that a sequence of individuals, belonging to one family, generation after generation, who combine character and intellect far above those of the com- mon run of their contemporaries should be chosen leaders of their time to play greatest roles in the task of nation building. In modern India, there is one such family that generation after generation has cons…