This book contains about: - Opportunities for and limitations to technological leapfrogging - Perspectives for the international technology system: The challenge ahead for newly industrializing countries etc.
The grim state of the Myanmar economy in the second half of the 1980s forced the previous government of the Burma Socialist Programme Party to liberalize its external and internal trade. Since the military coup following political chaos in the later part of 1988, Japan, the European Community and the United States have suspended new economic aid to Myanmar. This has led to the present military …
Presently, ASEAN stands ready to make a major step towards economic integration. This book looks at the issues involved in moving ASEAN towards a free trade area. It examines some indicators of gains and costs of integration and presents two quantitive analyses of the potential effects of integration on growth and trade in the region. The first, a partial equilibrium analysis, provides a disagg…
Today, four years of this administration, Thailand has put behind it that economic crisis. The country has taken up a new prominent role and position in today's world arena. The book presents the Government's achievements, focusing on major projects and operations that the Government has found essential in steering Thailand and its economy proudly and firmly to where it is today.
This book presents about a new India rising up and it is going to change the world from bollywood to world financial markets from IT to manufacturing from service to design.
This book was going for about decision makers in developing countries to adopt adequate policies that make use of the opportunities and minimize the negative effects of globalization. With the focus on the discussions of an ASEAN strategy of globalization, this book is organized into five parts. It begins with introduction, followed by a part presenting four views, which is the reproduction of…
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…
Despite numerous small success stories, the big picture of America's toxics programs is one of overall failure. Superfund has failed to clean up America's worst dump sites; policies to regulate generation of new hazardous waste have foundered; standards have been set for only eight of several hundred air toxics; transportation spills and industrial toxics accidents continue unabated. In part, t…
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reflects the growing international consensus that the earth's climate is being changed by anthropogenic greenhouse gasses. Evidence presented by the IPCC and others points to the potential for increasingly dangerous weather, new disease outbreaks, regional water shortages, the loss of habitat and species, and other dist…
While many topics and issues are canvassed here, overall the book pursues three fundamental themes. First, it focuses on why environmental economics in practice is not primarily an exercise in estimating the value of pollution damages and then promulgating taxes to make polluters internalize those harms, but consists mainly of applied cost-benefit analysis. Of course, many researchers are occup…