... exchange reserves are unaffected by portfolio disinvestment. Foreign investors benefit by being able to withdraw investment income via the commercial Rand, boosting the domestic yields by the extent of the discount between the two currencies. However, because the 'pool' of financial Rands is limited, the investment currency is very volatile and acts as a deterrent to significant foreign investment. The government has ... of trade bills but today the underwriting and flotation of stock issues, the arrangement of mergers and acquisitions and the provision of financial advice to clients ha...

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... or 'export-oriented industrialization.' It was explicitly modeled on the experiences of Taiwan and the other Asian 'small dragons'" (Shirk 99). One analyst has maintained Harris 8 that "China now stands at the threshold of the greatest opportunity in human history: a new economic era promising greater wealth and achievement than any previous epoch" (Gilder 369). Illustrative of this ... , a new bridge, and extensive roadwork. Future plans include the construction of a second international airport, a container port, a new subway system, and more roads and bridges (Zuckerman D8). China an...

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... did not fall off the "fiscal cliff"; in Europe, where the breakup of the euro zone was avoided and where sovereign bond differentials have drastically narrowed; and in China, where fears of a hard landing have receded for the time being. Despite this more positive global outlook, some uncertainty remains. In advanced economies, the potential consequences of a tapering and ... recovery challenges in Europe are factors that could put future economic performance at risk. In emerging markets, it is uncertain how protests in Brazil and Turkey, the credit crunch in China, and the potentially ...

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... which changes occur is known as transition process. I have chosen to evaluate Vietnam's economic performance because Vietnam is unique among the transitional economies in several respects: like its giant neighbour China, it has retained a socialist one party political monopoly , taken a gradualist approach to reform, and its reform programme "doi moi" has been very successful. In all, Vietnam successfully ... sector devastated. Invasion of Cambodia in December 1978 and subsequent Chinese retaliation (February 1979) sent the economy into further doldrums. Furthermore, it resulted in a c...

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... makes little sense for America to produce textiles at home when they can be produced at a lower cost in Honduras or China (which unlike Honduras is a major source of American textile imports). Importing textile would benefit America as well as China. Firstly, it would lead to lower prices for clothes in America, which would enable consumers to spend more of their money ... on other items. Secondly, the increased income generated in China from textile exports would increase income levels in that country, helping the Chinese to purchase more products produced in the American market (i.e. ...

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... power of rural elites to alter policies was broken, the results have included a measurable poverty reduction and improvement in human welfare. The economic successes of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China resulted from such reforms. Even the felling of fragile forests has been slowed, as happened during the 1980s with the now-aborted Sandinista land reform in Nicaragua. In contrast, when ... ...

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... found itself decades behind the West in both technology as well as the size of its physical capital stock. The oligarchies that ruled Japan believed that it would become another China and get carved up by Western industrial powers. They built a non-political civil bureaucracy and embarked on a forced draft industrialisation programme. Production was emphasised over private consumption and measures like ... ...

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... in countries like the Czech Republic and Slovenia while other states were making steady progress thus providing hope for improvements in the economic and political arena. During the same period, China underwent several transformations, which included opening up the economy to the west and increasing foreign investment. This helped the economy develop and caused standards of living to improve significantly. The ... ...

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... competition with coffee; its primacy has largely been the result of improved production by small farmers. Kenya now produces more tea than any country in the world except India and China. Coffee continues to be an important export, though relatively less land (about 3%) is used to cultivate it. Kenya's ability to export coffee was long limited by an export quota system ... ...

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