In an effort to determine, with reference to the US and Japan, what factors give rise to a society's emergence, growth and possible decline, some parallels are found between Buddhist, Confucian and Tao ideals and Christian tenets, representing the equivalent of a “Confucian ethic” which...

With an average per capita income of $154 in 2000 Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world but has also been one of the fastest growing economies through the 1990's. Growth rates of 10% have been registered in some recent years though this has been offset to some extent by...