... hosting nations. Hence, a well integrated global production network, which was facilitated by mobile capitals from MNCs and financial liberalization undertaken in the NICs, was emerging rapidly. For example, in consumer electronic industries, each of the major stages of production has different production characteristics; the design stage of consumer electronics usually involves research-intensive process whcih required hight ... new circuit, 2) production of masks, 3) fabrication of wafers, 4) assembly of integrated circuit, and 5) final testing and shipping. The stage of design and waf...

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... each other, either directly or through an intermediatary. In peacetime, this serves to promote friendly relations between sending states and receiving states, helping to develop their economic, cultural and scientific relations. In war, diplomacy also has a vital role of ensuring successful negotiations of peace treaties and ceasefire agreements. This process is also critical in building coalitions in support ... under new diplomacy in the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which saw most states agreeing to rules on how diplomatic relations should be conducted between state...

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... is again is very beneficial to business and the general public in the short term, reducing the time spent travelling and encouraging industrial development. For example, a location that is easily accessible by road will attract industry and hence increase the value of the land; similarly existing property will increase in ... the inefficient use of the cars purchased. With reduced costs a car is used when it is not the most efficient method of travelling, for example for very short journeys. In the long term this creates a market failure where resources are not efficiently allocated, in t...

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... is again is very beneficial to business and the general public in the short term, reducing the time spent travelling and encouraging industrial development. For example, a location that is easily accessible by road will attract industry and hence increase the value of the land; similarly existing property will increase in ... the inefficient use of the cars purchased. With reduced costs a car is used when it is not the most efficient method of travelling, for example for very short journeys. In the long term this creates a market failure where resources are not efficiently allocated, in t...

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... the role of the Diet's lower house, there also existed the informal Genro, a small cadre of elder statesmen whose role was also to advise the emperor on political matters. One example of their power is that the Prime Minister of the House of Representatives was essentially picked by the Genro, and they made sure that the will of nonparty elites was ... warrant the unease and subsequent wrath of the ruling powers. 'For the first time in modern Japan, labor conflict had become a social problem of importance24.' The Japanese Communist party, for example, was formed in 1922 with the back...

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... -Japanese war explain why the situation did not change after US intervention, and without these events the nature of the conflict for China could have been much more positive. An example of such an event is the Xian incident in 1936; Chiang Kai-Shek was kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang and put under house arrest, forcing to fight the Japanese instead of ... ...

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