Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southeast Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Contemporary Southeast Asia
Author: International Congress Calendar
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 1654
Book Description
Korea Trade & Business
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign trade promotion
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Dr. Mahathir's Selected Letters to World Leaders Volume 2
Author: Dr. Mahathir MohamadPublisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 981463462X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Dr Mahathir Mohamad governed Malaysia for 22 years (1981–2003), during which he wrote and received many letters from many world leaders. The letters presented in this volume—by Dr Mahathir, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Lee Kuan Yew, Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein, among others—argue the contrasting positions on bilateral and joint relations, globalisation, as well as wars and conflicts. Dr Mahathir writes directly, in his own distinctive voice and style. The correspondents were transparent, solid, informative, and sometimes robust.
Foreign Affairs Malaysia
Author: Daily Report
Author: Our Common Future
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195531916
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Yearbook of International Organizations
Author: Union of International AssociationsPublisher:
ISBN: 9783598239991
Category : International agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
World Development Report 1994
Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780195209921
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
World Development Report 1994 examines the link between infrastructure and development and explores ways in which developing countries can improve both the provision and the quality of infrastructure services. In recent decades, developing countries have made substantial investments in infrastructure, achieving dramatic gains for households and producers by expanding their access to services such as safe water, sanitation, electric power, telecommunications, and transport. Even more infrastructure investment and expansion are needed in order to extend the reach of services - especially to people living in rural areas and to the poor. But as this report shows, the quantity of investment cannot be the exclusive focus of policy. Improving the quality of infrastructure service also is vital. Both quantity and quality improvements are essential to modernize and diversify production, help countries compete internationally, and accommodate rapid urbanization. The report identifies the basic cause of poor past performance as inadequate institutional incentives for improving the provision of infrastructure. To promote more efficient and responsive service delivery, incentives need to be changed through commercial management, competition, and user involvement. Several trends are helping to improve the performance of infrastructure. First, innovation in technology and in the regulatory management of markets makes more diversity possible in the supply of services. Second, an evaluation of the role of government is leading to a shift from direct government provision of services to increasing private sector provision and recent experience in many countries with public-private partnerships is highlighting new ways to increase efficiency and expand services. Third, increased concern about social and environmental sustainability has heightened public interest in infrastructure design and performance.
Weapons Proliferation in the 1990s
Author: Brad RobertsPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262680868
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction has emerged as a major topic of international security in the post-Cold War world. This compendium of articles, published in The Washington Quarterly between 1991 and 1995, describes the changing nature of the problem, dissusses new trends in nonproliferation and counterproliferation policy, identifies new arms control challenges at the regional and global levels, and concludes by addressing the global politics of proliferation.