It is because Malaysia has to face a stiff competition from other East Asia "tycoon" such as Korea and Japan, which have more sophisticated technology and a bigger market and as the result, a better product than us. ... And in around May this year, due to the recent war in Iraq and the SARS outbreak in Asia, Dr. ...
During that time, Asian economies had been following an economic model developed by the Japanese since World War II. ... Since 1960 the region's top performers---Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand---grew more than twice as fast as the rest of East Asia, three times as fast as Latin America and South Asia, and five times faster than sub-Saharan Africa. ... Earlier it was stated that the Asian economies were following a model developed by the Japanese in the years following World War II. ...
Wars and hostility is a strain on the economy causing depletions of important resources to be spent on defense instead of on the deserving population. ... One of the major factors in depriving Pakistan of its economic stability was the succession of East Pakistan; Apart form the war expensed that it deprived us of a major source of inexpensive labor force and revenues. ...
