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The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...
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. Finally capitalism no longer works if it cannot solve the excesses of unemployment as are happening in some Eurozone countries. …
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The relationship between the US and Asia will be the single biggest determinant in the evolution of the global economic … regional blocs. Asia holds the key, combining both dissatisfaction with existing global arrangements with the resources to … reconstitute, at least at the regional level, an alternative set of institutions and practices. How Asia responds will partly …
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Although in the post-World War II period as a whole, developing countries have made substantial economic and industrial progress, during the last decade or so, many of them, particularly in Latin America and Africa, have been in an acute economic crisis . As a consequence, these countries have...
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256 K memory chips, developed by its own firms. It is no exaggeration to say that the post-WWII development of East Asia …
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The WTO’s new Agreement on Trade Facilitation (ATF) will help to reverse the region’s deceleration of overall export growth and, when implemented, could add as much as 3 percent to regional GDP and lift employment across the region by 1.2 percent. In the region’s developing economies,...
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This is an important and ambitious book but its timing could not be more unfortunate. It is the result of a two year research project co-sponsored by the Economic Development Institute (EDI) at the World Bank and by the Center for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. The contributors...
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The World Trade Organization’s new Agreement on Trade Facilitation has the potential to significantly reduce East Asia …-transportation) trade costs. The ATF defines a new reform agenda for East Asia with potentially far-reaching effects on private sector …
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Abstract Although in the post-World War II period as a whole, developing countries have made substantial economic and industrial progress, during the last decade or so, many of them, particularly in Latin America and Africa, have been in an acute economic crisis. As a consequence, these...
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strategically in Asia? These are difficult and contentious questions. However, given the current turbulence in global politics and … global peace and economic prosperity. U.S. policy towards Asia is much more than mere regional policy. As the largest … continent on our planet, to a large extent Asia holds the key towards the global future for better or worse. U.S. relations with …
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