In 2000 commentators everywhere were hailing the boom in some western economies as the dawn of a new economy. In 2001 …, with a slowdown biting in the US economy, dot.coms folding and information and communications technology firms feeling the … pinch globally, the headline writers have swung the other way, saying that it was all a myth. Was it? The New Economy …

The development process can advance more rapidly than ever before in the new global economy. While opening their … effective rather than vulnerable and marginal players in the global economy. …