The author examines privatization in newly industrializing countries of Asia, in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines and in three Asian socialist countries , China, Vietnam and Laos. He discusses rectified concepts of state regulation in Asian countries, general principles of...

For many years, the ideological platform of Juche acted as a brake on the development on North Korea's external economic relations. Without abandoning this principle in economic policy the country is now forced, in view of the growing economic problems, to move toward the involvement of the...