... ofthe challenge for the Treasury and the Fed, meanwhile, was to talk scores oftheworld' s largest banks into not calling in their Korea loans All these initiatives came to a head at the same ... development in Latin America by a decade The crisis of late 1994 was smaller Yet the risk was hard to overstate It, too, could spread to other nations, and because ofthe growing integration ofworld financial ... reserves of dollars This sequence of events led to the so-called Asian contagion, a series of financial crises that began with the collapse ofthe Thai baht and Malaysian ringgit inthe summer of 1997...
... heavily invested in loans backed by real estate as collateral, as real estate prices soared When the turn came and prices cascaded downward, the collateral became inadequate But instead of calling ... which are already prominent in this book Australia and New Zealand are particularly interesting in how they developed after adopting market-opening reforms and gradually increasing ties with Asia, ... history and the culture it has spawned By culture, I mean the shared values of members ofa society that are inculcated at an early age and that pervade all aspects of living Some aspects ofa nation's...
... rising far more rapidly than real world GDP since the end ofWorld War II The expansion reflects the opening up of international markets as well as major gains in communication capabilities that ... financing these investments Every asset must have an owner The market value of "paper" claims against newly created capital assets must equal the market value of those assets Ina sense, theworld' s ... global trading partners, and that calls for a broader explanation ofthe causes of U.S income inequality Part ofthe explanation is the more elaborate welfare systems, especially in Europe, that...
... accelerated the abandonment of central planning throughout the world, with China and India inthe vanguard The evidence of increasing property rights, and the rule of law more generally leading to increasing ... market capitalism has expanded Gradually, without fanfare, the voluntary promptings of individuals inthe marketplace have displaced many ofthe powers ofthe state.* Much regulation promulgating ... base Indeed, India's per capita GDP four decades ago was equal to that of China, but is now less than half of China's and still losing ground It is conceivable that India can undergo as radical a...
... Kong and Singapore, and finally taking hold powerfully in mainland China and India – has altered the balance ofpowerinthe global economy and hence in geopolitics The rising nations ofthe East ... between a global brand like Coca Cola and Levi’s and being ‘global’ as a brand In both instances, these arise out ofthe processes of globalization Inthe case of global brands such as Coca Cola, there ... a transformation inthe spatial organization of social relations and transactions generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction, and the exercise of...
... and design, acquisition of data, and interpretation of data, was involved in drafting the manuscript, and revising it critically for important intellectual content All authors have read and approved ... think that they are from the community, that they are normal villagers They said that if the villagers tell anything about the work ofthe “suan ahn chin” that group will stop all aid coming in ... international humanitarian assistance, particularly information gathering and travel for international staff, were a reality for aid organizations[60,61] Community-led monitoring of human rights violations...
... SMALL BUSINESS PR CAMPAIGN Patrice A Tanaka 227 PR: A KEY DRIVER OF BRAND MARKETING David Finn AN ESSENTIAL FUNCTION INA DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY 243 The Art ofPublicRelations WINNING COMMUNICATIONS ... Edvinsson of Scandia Insurance, whom many consider to be the father of intellectual capital,” The intellectual capital of nations is the new wealth of nations.” Communications Capital is the ... PROSUMER Ron Watt, Sr 109 PUBLICRELATIONS AS AN ART AND A CRAFT Richard Edelman 125 THEPOWEROFPUBLICRELATIONSINACOMPLEXWORLD Lou Rena Hammond SUCCESS INPUBLICRELATIONS 143 Anthony J Russo,...
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