... for the capital liberalisation, as part of its wider ideological shift in favour of freer markets fostered and exacerbated the vulnerabilities that caused the economic crises in Asia, Russia and Latin America. Senior figures in the Clinton Administrations--Mickey Kantor, the former USTR and Commerce Secretary and Laura Tyson, the former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers--have conceded that they ... we may be seeing a trend away from automatic pilot' types of market strategy towards more active policies of the types enshrined in the Asian developmental state' model and advocated i...

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... . The internationalization of economic activity in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the development of new shipping technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. However, the Chinese had developed better and more sophisticated technology much earlier but did not choose to use it to promote economic expansion. Similarly, the nineteenth century proved ... right to political authority over their colonies). Ideological justification for colonialism was based on the false idea that Europeans were colonizing an empty space. In some parts of ...

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... nations. If these organizations could not appease these nations, there was always the threat of communist revolutions in Western Europe and Southeast China. However, in areas such as Latin America most resistance to democracy involved reformist rather than revolutionist. The international powerhouses, through the United States as an agency, were successful in subduing most communist threats through disclosed ... Dick Cheney's X-company got a 28 billion dollar contract with the federal government to "re-construct" Iraq. In the presence of all of this domestic hostility towards corporate ...

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... even if this means buying goods from other countries that it could produce more efficiently itself. According to this view, it 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 ... globalisation and one only need to go t...

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... much as the Chinese, per capita. By 1999, they were only earning 7.4 times as much. The gap between rich and poor is also shrinking with most nations in Asia and Latin America. Many people believe that exports create jobs, and imports cost jobs and that it therefore makes sense to have barriers against imports. This thinking led to the Great Depression in ... trade agreements should also allow non-government organizations a direct voice in their governance. The freeing of financial markets has brought global instability, as evidenced in financial crises in Asia and Latin America and the...

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... the Chinese regime. Meanwhile, countries in Asia, especially the four tigers were industrializing rapidly as other third world countries like Bangladesh continued to face economic crises. Countries in Africa and Latin America chose to end many of their planned socialism projects and focused on private enterprises. The West's focus on market economies and privatization ultimately influenced other third world countries to abandon ... with each other to enhance work and communal ethics. Even though, Japan stresses on establishing communities based on occupation, it is a highly individualiz...

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... , which gracefully moves back and forth between the past and the present, memory is the catalyst for present-day realizations and changes. This is a story of the Great Possibility, what America COULD be, and what it has lost by not working past its prejudices and fears. Lone Star is most intimately concerned with how different cultures and generations mix, match, and ... the history books used in the schools contained withering remarks about the Mexican presence in the Southwest. Central to this discussion was the political involvement of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LUL...

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... movements espoused by Escobar. He also highlights the evolution of post-development discourse from simply criticizing the development mechanism to actually providing solutions, which have had some profound effects in Latin America and Southeast Asia. From these studies, McGregor concludes that people will not become passive victims of development and that there are more diverse development opportunities that may lead to alternative ... ...

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