In contrast to Germany South Korea has for years been continuously preparing for national reunification. As a result, alongside the Ministry of Unification a number of think tanks, research institutes, and other organizations have also been established in South Korea. After years of the...

As China is dependent on oil and gas imports to maintain its high growth rates, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and Central Asia have become increasingly important for the country's economic development. In May 2014, China and Russia signed a new gas deal, for example, and in recent...

The Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, are very successful in transformation. From 1991 to 2015 they regained independence and transformed their economies from socialist central planning into functioning mar-ket economies, joined the EU in 2004 and became member of the Euro zone....

While the DPRK (North Korea) is on its way ahead to reform the socialist based economic system, since a few years the Republic of Korea (South Korea) is integrating into East Asian economic structures like "ASEAN plus 3". In this way a possible reunification of Korea as well as a single...

Sonderwirtschaftszonen sind geographische Gebiete innerhalb eines Staates, in denen eine andere Wirtschafts- und Steuergesetzgebung gilt als im Rest desselben. Mit Sonderwirtschaftszonen wird i. d. R. die Steigerung von in- und ausländischen Inves-titionen bezweckt, weshalb ihre Errichtung als...