A collection of speeches by the former President of the Phillippines outlines the political and social philosophy behind his leadership during a remarkable six-year economic recovery in the island nation, from the brink of disaster to a new era of prosperity and stability.
This book asks how the political leaders of Africa, as well as interest groups can promote economic growth in their countries. Drawing on studies of countries outside Africa, Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills identify the factors separating the performers form the laggards worldwide. Aside from the need to create an enabling environment for business through good governance, provision of infrastruct…
In Head to Head, one of America's most influential economists provides his dynamic assessment of the emerging economic landscape: the rules of this new three-way competition; the strengths and weaknesses of the players; the information we need to win. Head to Head is full of surprises; one attribute of the new competition is that radical new skills and radical new ways of thinking are vital to …
Based on fieldwork in Colombia's regions, the study provides a history of the conflict, compares it to other case studies, examines the war from the perspectives of the government and the guerrillas, delves into the development of special Colombian capabilities (notably in intelligence and the use of air power and special forces), and explains the economic dimension in terms both of historical …
This book is Mahathir Mohamad's recipe for revitalizing Asia after the financial crisis at the end of the 20th century. He called for a united front to challenge some of the fundamentals of globalization. A New Deal for Asia looks at whether Asia can reinvent itself for the new millennium after the chaos and chaos of the Asian crisis. According to Mahathir Mohamad, now is not the time to accuse…
This book, starting with a forecast of China's population growth and an examination of the goal to achieve a dirty comfortable standard of living for the Chinese people by the year 2000, reviews comprehensively the country's economic, scisntific, technological, and social factors of development to paint a picture of what China might look like by the turn of this century. Meanwhile, It puts forw…
Drucker On Asia is the result of extensive dialogue between two of the world's leading business figures, Peter F Drucker and Isao Nakauchi. Their dialogue considers the changes occuring in the economic world today and identifies the challenges that free markets and free enterprises now face with specific reference to China and Japan. * What do these economic changes mean for an individual count…
The objective of the Australia-Indonesia Development Area (AIDA) concept is to develop closer economic relations within the AIDA region through improving the enabling environment for private sector trade and investment. A key strength of the AIDA concept lies in the essential complementarity of the Australian and AIDA region of Indonesia economies, for example between Australian technology and …
This book containing history of the forces driving the American economy to boom in the 1990s and collapse in 2000.
The Roaring Nineties is in part the story of how the corrupt and greedy got their comeuppance. But Stiglitz also develops a convincing alternative to the free-market mantra. He shows why greed is not good - for companies, individuals, or societies - and how if left unchecked it leads to deceptions, distortions and disasters. He argues that achieving the right balance between government and the …