Examines China's future and political balance of power by analyzing the goals and methods of Hua Kuo-feng, Mao's successor, together with domestic problems, social and economic developments, and foreign relations
This publication presents a series of analytical papers and background documents prepared by the South Centre in response to a request from the Government of Indonesia during the preparations for the Tenth Non-Aligned Movement Summit in 1992. It examines major economic challenges faced by developing countries in the 1990s and outlines proposals for strengthening South–South cooperation and pr…
China: Facts and Figures 1996 is a comprehensive reference book that presents the latest data, statistics, and information on the People's Republic of China in the mid-1990s. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the political, economic, social, and cultural conditions, as well as scientific and technological developments in China after two decades of reform and openness. Through table…
The Bangladesh Papers is a collection of recorded statements, speeches, and important political declarations by key leaders from 1969–1971, including Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and General A.M. Yahya Khan. Published by Vanguard Books Ltd., this book collects their public speeches and political pronouncements during the critical years leading up to the partition of Pakistan an…
Europe Meeting adalah sebuah forum antara Asia dan Eropa yang bertujuan untuk mempromosikan kerja sama dan dialog antara kedua kawasan tersebut. ASEM pertama kali dibentuk pada tahun 1996 dan sejak itu telah menjadi wadah penting untuk diskusi mengenai berbagai isu global, termasuk politik, ekonomi, sosial, budaya, dan lingkungan.
The volume is essentially economic in its orientation: it contains both empirical findings and policy analyses dealing with trade among the United States and key ASEAN countries such as Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei and Thailand. However, the authors do extend their primary focus to include the contention that there exists a strong connection between external openness,…
This book contains: 1. Introduction to urban and regional economics 2. Locational decisions of the firm 3. Market areas and urban system 4. Agglomeration and economic structure 5. Regional growth and development: Fundamental perspectives 6. Regional growth and development: Advanced perspectives 7. The practice of economic development 8. Poverty and antipoverty programs 9. Interregion…
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 False Economy, Alan Beattie weaves together the economic choices, political choices, economic history, and human stories, that determine whether governments and countries remain rich or poor. False Economy is a lively and lucid book that engagingly and thought-provokingly examines macroeconomics, economic topics, and the fault lines and successes that can make or break a culture or induce…
What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Legal philosophers ponder questions of justness. An economist, on the other hand, observes that making the punishment for armed robbery the same as that …