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There has been much discussion of the Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs) in recent years and various studies of their impact have been made. Much of the concern about NICs in the industrialized countries is however based on what they portend for the future rather than their present impact....
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The island's rapid industrialisation over the past decade and its development as the main trade and financial centre of South-East Asia, supported by a phenomenal growth in tourism, constitute yet another Asian economic miracle.
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Hong Kong’s metamorphosis from an entrepot to an industrial economy during the past quarter of a century gives a good example of how a developing country can achieve remarkable growth through international trade.
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The electorate has spoken - alea jacta est - re-electing President Nixon in an old-fashioned landslide for another four years' term. What is to be expected in the internal and external economic sphere during 1973?
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Japan's industrial and trade policies are often seen as the reason for high Japanese balance of trade surpluses. Does …
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Japan's high and increasing trade and current account surpluses have aroused in the other industrialized nations a … increasing imports from Japan. Japan's "unfair" conduct of its foreign trade is often cited as a reason for such a reaction. Is … this reproach justified? What can be done to avert the dangers to both Japan's foreign trade and the world economy caused …
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It is now acknowledged even by US officials that Japan's recent efforts to liberalize trade have been remarkable. Our … author, who has recently published a book on "Japan's Options for the 1980s", argues that the continuing EEC complaints about … Japan's behaviour as a trading partner are unjustified: Japan is simply being made a scapegoat for the EEC's own failures. …
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The final package of the seventh round of multilateral GATT negotiations has been ready for initialling since April 11, 1979. What has been achieved in these negotiations, commonly known as the Tokyo Round, and what has been left undone?
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The seventh round of GATT negotiations was brought to a conclusion in the spring of this year. One of the objects for the USA was to correct the trend of world trade which had been to its disadvantage. Its main concern was to bring about a settlement of the trade relations with the western...
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