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...h Muyanja Ssenyonga A. Ika Rahutami Laksmi Yustika Devi Rosa Kristiadi Center for Asia Pacific Studies Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta, Indon... ...dential Regulation Authority (APRA), Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA), Asia and Africa Study Center Colegio de Mexico, Gerencia de Es... ...ncy), Brookings Institute, Caravel Management LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., IMF Asia and Pacific Division, and Peterson Institute for Internat... ... a balanced representation of APEC member economies by geographical location which is Asia, Australia, and America. Secondary data analysis and fi... ...not only great financial loss but also struggles to recover from the crisis. When the Asian Financial Crisis struck, several economies including APE... ...emain high especially in parts of emerging Europe. The October 2009 GFSR showed that “Western European banks appear able to absorb deteriorating cre... ... 143 Besley, S and Brigham, EF 2009, Principles of Finance, Fourth Edition, South-Western Cengage Learning, United States. Boulton, J 2011, U...

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...as Europe's highest unemployment rates, along with the biggest wealth gaps in Western Europe. Before the crash, middle class Germans were embarras... ...ive of political ideal logy. 3. Lassiez-Faire- Capitalist Common in many Asian Countries, were there is little or no Social assistance programs... ...y orders from the now broke USA, and Europe, and many people in the insolvent Western World, have no sympathy for both Countries, wanting their lost... ... memories of the old world before Globalization. But with Governments in the Western World, Nationalizing or bailing out key industries, it is obvio... ...opean Industry can compete in price, or quality with the Newly Industrialized Asian Countries. So in order to create employment and business for loca... ...e Philippines tens of thousands of jobs were created by National Banks in the western World that outsourced traditional accounting, and call service... ... boom for accounting firms, in the coming years. 3. Nursing Staff In the Western world, the population is getting older and there is always a d... ...had a democratically elected Parliament, and was on the road to becoming East Asia’s largest Democracy. A technocrat that inherited an almost disint... ...aded a small aircraft for the equivalent value in rice and Chili's from other Asian countries. New Zealand supplied Iran with fresh lamb, in exchang...

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...us. Just a five hour flight on Singapore Airlines, still in the Southeast Asian part of the world--but what a universe of difference. From one of th... ...w dawns. And will the dawn come up like thunder, as Kipling penned of our Asian neighbor, or will it merely slither in like the ever-present cobras ... ... when you think of compounded yearly increases. But when you look at East Asia the gross domestic product had an annual growth rate of 6.4% and the ... ... China there was an increase of 300 million in poverty. ―In South Asia a 5.5% average growth rate in the GDP was accompanied by rapid popula... ... scans from the West that are sent by email, Even surgical operations for Westerners are done 50 to 80% cheaper than in the West. And they are done ... ...e from within should be taken to heart by you Americans, and many of your Western partners. If you expect to survive, you must keep the masses of ci... ... of slowing population growth. Same sex relationships have been a part of Western culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewi... ... gender orientation is still somewhat of a cultural variant in the modern Western world. For other societies, both past and present, such negative a... ...n our religion have not had the divisive effects that have afflicted your Western faiths. Perhaps it is because our belief is so all-encompassing tha...

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...unction, to distinguish definite regions or parts of the world: Old World, Western Hemisphere, North Pole, Equator, the North (=Scan'dinavia), the ... ...t wonld have been no di5cult matter to Alexander. with all the resources of Asia under his hand. The sucoesses of Pyrrhus, with his small army, agai... ...would have been no difficult matter to Alexander, with all the resources of Asia under his hand. The succesees of Pyrrhus, with his small army, agai... ...would have been no difficult matter to Alexander, with all the resources of Asia under his hand. The successes of Pyrrhus, with his small army, agai... ...would have been no di5- cult matter to Alexander, with all the resources of Asia under his hand. The successes of Pyrrhus, with his small army, aga... ...would have been no difficult matter to Alexander, with ALL THE RESOURCES OF ASIA UNDER HIS HAND. THE SUOOESSES OF PYBBHUS, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 army...

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...y personal bias. In what aspect can Chinese culture be distinctive from western ones? The difference between Western and Eastern cultures, on the ... ... exchange, when selfishness surpasses their natural harmony. In contrast, Western medicine cares more about the scars when the harmony is broken. Ho... ...more easily cured than the maintenance of the harmony. This is the reason Western culture never solves the problem of health. Unfortunately our Easte... ...n, for thousands of years, and proved excellent for society. In contrast, Western children are educated to compete with others for self or group int... ...dhood, to abide by the natural law, namely Dao, never to indulge oneself. Western people, on the other hand, are educated to free themselves from all... ...c needs, it would be Buddhism.” SIR EDWIN ARNOLD (Author of “The Light of Asia”): “I have often said, and shall say again and again, that between Bu... ... interesting features of Neutrosophy is the dialogue it has initiated with Asian philosophy, Buddhism and Taoism in particular. Both of these traditi...

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...er the past five years, volatility spikes have become ever more frequent, from the Asian crisis in 1997 right up to the World Trade Centre attacks.... ...to get rid of it, and traders to hedge against it. Modern risk exchanges liberated Western economies from the tyranny of the uncertain - they enthu... ...en claimed that IMF bailouts, in the wake of financial crises - in Mexico, Brazil, Asia, and Turkey, to mention but a few - created moral hazard. ... ...pe, 11 in Japan, 7.5 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 5 in China and South East Asia, less than 2 in East Europe and India each, about 1 in Afri... ...holarly journals. Already, voices in developing countries demand tiered pricing for Western textbooks sold in emerging economies. Quoted in the Free... ...Scholarship newsletter, Lai Ting-ming of the Taipei Times criticized, on March 26, "western publishers for selling textbooks to third world students... ...e East, the bulk of Latin America, central and eastern Europe, and central and east Asia - savings do not translate to investments, either in the fo... ...ity of abject poverty and ostentatious affluence in American - or, for that matter, Western - cities. Devastating riots do erupt, but these are reac... ...otes on the Economics of Game Theory By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Consider this: Could Western management techniques be successfully implemented in the...

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...lusionary policies, cronyism, corruption, intimidation, and collusion with Western interests, both commercial and political. The new "democracies" a... ...plutocracies (recall the Russian oligarchs), authoritarian regimes (Central Asia and the Caucasus), or puppeteered heterarchies (Macedonia, Bosnia, ... ...s colonial attentions at the heartland of Europe - rather than at Africa or Asia or Latin and Central America. Both World Wars were colonial wars f... ...topian as the classical Idea of Progress, which is most strongly reified by Western science and liberal democracy. All four illiberal ideologies fi... ...munism, Fascism, Nazism, and Religious Fundamentalism, on the one hand, and Western liberalism, on the other hand: All four totalitarian ideologies ... ...he may be undone by a military defeat, probably in the Caucasus or Central Asia. The formative years of Putin and Louis-Napoleon have little in com... ...f Europe's arbitrator, NATO's most weighty member, a bridge between Central Asia, the Caucasus, North Korea and China - and the USA. The longer his... ... aspirations. Putin is likely to follow the same path (probably in Central Asia, but, possibly, in the Baltic and east Europe as well). Reinvigorat... ...nology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerous courses in Fina...

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... increased by 20 million people (to 160 million) between the nadir of the Asian crisis in 1997 and 2001. The situation has much deteriorated since. ... ...tinations are the EU and the USA - but many end up in lesser countries in Asia or Africa. The International Labour Organization (ILO) published the... ...kers, North America - 17 million, Central and South America - 12 million, Asia - 7 million, the Middle East - 9 million, and Europe - 30 million. ... ...ded by native-born Americans). The averages mask huge disparities between Asians and Hispanics, though. Still, these ostensibly dismal figures const... ...tching investment funds. Migrant associations are sprouting all over the Western world, often at the behest of municipal authorities back home. The... ...l institution, government or employer- financed unions still exist even in Western and better governed countries, such as Greece. In the former colon... ...duction in working time, safeguarding jobs, and equating eastern pay with western standards. The comprehensiveness and all-pervasiveness of the coll... ...rth of German firms in the east - and a one half of all businesses in the western Lander. No wonder that IG Metall has in its sights targets in ea... ...cessing to remote maintenance. Cultural mismatches between the (typically Western) client base and the offshore service department (usually in a dev...

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...ans of travel. ―It has long puzzled me why the common brothers in your western religions have fought so violently among themselves for so long. C... ...rworld and the mafia. It is rated the worst of the developed countries in Western Europe in terms of corruption. At the top of the ethical list, Finl... ...ause this simple basis for happiness was so important, people in southern Asia began making statues of Siddarth Gautama, the Buddha, the enlightened... ...get the people behind the revolution. Since the majority of people in most Western countries are at least nominally theistic, it wouldn‘t make much s... ... an abandoning of a belief in God. And the increasing disbelief is in the Western world, particularly Europe and Canada. They mention that this is n... ...ld, particularly Europe and Canada. They mention that this is not true in Asia, Africa or South America.‖ —But don‘t you see that it is large... ...ociety based ethical system that is our concern. There is no question that Western religion empowers those without power. An unproven assumption once... ... less education on the average, have twice the number of believers as the Asians, who tend to have more education. It is at least conceivable that mo... ... ―Lycurgus, before setting up the laws of Sparta, traveled widely—to Asia, Egypt, Crete, to find laws that were just and that would work for hi...

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...d to overcome our feelings of inferiority, we can find ample evidence of that need in the West. But is it true among the natives of Oceania or Asia? ... ...that need in the West. But is it true among the natives of Oceania or Asia? Still, let us look for a while at some of the major early ideas of Wester... ...ies would have been either strengthened or abandoned based on modern neuroscience. But there is no question that his insights were critical to Wester... ...ze this idea of what it means to be truly human. Our education plan is total—or at least as complete as we can make it. Typically here in East Asia e... ...eincarnation, but there are probably a billion people who do.‖ —―You‘re right Ray, we can never be sure. But let‘s take the position of Wester... ...y. He may never have even seen the cartoons. No matter! Mad senseless power must have its victims. ―In the case of the cartoons, the Wester... ...rable gypsies and Jews along the way. The Korean War‘s propaganda was even more effective. And by the time the warriors invaded Vietnam every Asian ... ...education might well be a requirement for those who are said to be loved. Possibly the exposure to a home life that is within the norm of the Wester...

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...rages all over Eastern and Central Europe, in countries in transition as well as in Western Europe. It raged in Britain during the 80s. Is privatiz... ...er the past five years, volatility spikes have become ever more frequent, from the Asian crisis in 1997 right up to the World Trade Centre attacks.... ... otherwise. This is disingenuous. Ponzi and pyramid schemes have been a fixture of Western civilization at least since the middle Renaissance. Ass... ...ficially. Moreover, despite decades of bitter experiences - from Mexico in 1982 to Asia in 1997 and Russia in 1998 - financial institutions still b... ...eciated strongly against all major currencies; as China, India, and other low-wage Asian countries became important exporters; as the price of ene... ...other, taxing further their limited counter-cyclical resources. Simultaneously, in Asia, growth rates began to decelerate. Massive exposure to Amer... ...n of Scarcity Return Notes on the Economics of Game Theory Consider this: Could Western management techniques be successfully implemented in the... ...to get rid of it, and traders to hedge against it. Modern risk exchanges liberated Western economies from the tyranny of the uncertain - they enthu... ...te recent political upheavals, including the assassination of the reformist and pro-Western prime minister. Emerging market sovereign debts are irr...

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... began to become evident to the more economically advanced countries of the western world that several factors were making it impossible to care for ... ...ince the 80s the upheavals of Communist governments in the East allowed the western people to rest a little easier but the violent fanaticism of rel... ...ucceed in business and politics. The politically correct idea that Jews and Asians should be kept in lowly places has given way to the reality of Je... ...hat figure for years but you still see it in old films. Just beyond it is a western town that has been used for years. ‘Dr. Quinn’ was shot there. ... ...fort the people should have. If people want to live at the comfort level of Western Europe or the U.S. the calculations will be quite different than ... ...ied in the Islamic slave trade and almost as many in the slave trade in the western hemisphere. Look at the human cost of Central and South American... ... people aged 60 and over outnumber the children. Parts of Latin America and Asia are approaching that level. It will necessarily cause an economic h... ...stians because the increases will be primarily in Africa, South America, and Asia—the areas of lower education levels and greater poverty. “H...

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...en he accompanied the Egyptian King Sesostris in his great expedition through Asia and Europe, or about 730 years after the deluge, as Forster says, ... ...g made themselves masters of all Europe, Northern Africa, and the countries of Western Asia, sent an expedition of many sail against the Khan of Catha... ...hemselves masters of all Europe, Northern Africa, and the countries of Western Asia, sent an expedition of many sail against the Khan of Cathay (China... ...s a people in the north,, occupying Norway, a race that had been driven out of Asia by Tartar hordes and which had wandered westward until they found ... ... About the middle of the 14th century the Esquimaux imperilled the colonies in western Greenland, and a growing hostility may have culminated in their... ...ery of San Salvador to the reclamation of all the countries and islands of the Western Hemisphere, together with descriptions of the primitive peoples... ... the east and the west; the people there making exchanges of goods as those of Asia and Europe do at Nishni Novgorod on the Volga to-day. Thus Ormus b... ...y Kubia Khan on a mission to Yunnan, which was a province in the extreme south-western part of China. THE POLOS ATTACHED TO THE ROYAL COURT. In the me... ... conceived the idea that America was but a narrow strip of land, washed on the western side by another sea, which he vainly sought to reach through a ...

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... their offerings. Many of them are located outside the USA (in Germany, or Asia) and at least one offers papers in a few languages, Hebrew included. ... ...ivatization" of the medium. This harps on very sensitive strings in every Western soul: the efficient allocation of resources which is the result of... ... facility is an example of something more sophisticated and more durable. Western firms are discovering the immense pools of skills, talent, innovat... ... attracts the technology and R&D arms of the likes of General Electric to Asia and Intel to Israel. In other words, there are budding signs of a rev... ... Content Directions in the States and the aforementioned Enpia Systems in Asia). It is already widely used to cross reference almost 5,000 periodical... ...guage, affluent people's toy. PG includes predominantly English language, Western world, texts. Do you intend to make it more multicultural and mult... ...re no legitimate copies are available at all. I have been to locations in Asia and Europe where the publishers simply don't care to sell - no matter... ...ntary knowledge or expert advice. The Usenet is also the documentation of Western intellectual history in the last three decades. In it invaluable. ... ...his possibly distorts the statistical picture somewhat. The Internet - A Western Phenomenon Not African, not Asian (with the exception of Israel a...

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...|)rudence at Columbia law school. He has also served as lecturer at North- western university law school. '()1 —Charles R. King died at his home in Ro... ...Brown 190S has been elected captain of the junior class baseball team. The Western New Y'ork club will hold a smoker in Bemis' at 8.30 Wednesday eveni... ... lin game was sensationally close, but the Ohio State ehuinpions- the only western team which eanie east this your—were at the small entl of a to 7 sc... ...wall to light the corridor which will lead from the tower entranoo to tlie western recitation room. The scantling for the par- titions on this floor h... ...ening at 7.£iO. All those desiring to accom- pany the baseball team on the western trip are requested to hand their names to E. M. Hoyne '07 this week... ... sophical union, lOH.H. IN TURKESTAN Interesting Lecture to be Given by an Asiatic Explorer Professor Cleland has invited Mr. Ellsworth Huntington of ... ...ture before the college on his recent trip through the Turkestan region of Asia, next Monday evening. Mr. Huntington devoted a year to ex- ploration a... ...ted a year to ex- ploration and travel in the little known regions of this Asiatic kingdom, and his lecture will be supplemented by a copious num- ber... ...plemented by a copious num- ber of stereopticon slides. He re- turned from Asia not long ago and since then has lectured be- fore the American Geograp...

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...toward the Royal Museum, began to walk to a distant place where a woman in a western wedding dress stood at a pond posing for a picture with her groom... ...He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world. Even though he cared about fam... ...irt the way Americans envisioned most all other countries including those in Western Europe. "Everyone wants to talk to you in English." "But I don't ... ...was the collective culture in the earliest of all primitive American, if not western minds, and so inescapable in a sense. On that day she brought her... ...ill, there was no escape from the West for fresher lies. The whole world was western now. All that was possible was to abscond from it as much as poss... ...cans once said that the military cost of their civil wars were the result of Western colonial boundaries fusing incompatible tribes into nations, keep... ...ing tobacco from her large bag. She put on a hat that made her look like an Asian rice farmer. Then she began to listen to Paganini's Caprices. Mean... ...rods, a strange epidemic that they had manufactured and proliferated in East Asia, and assassination plans for George Bush. The face of Gabriele's h... ...assing stage: a diminishing but still open animus toward her for the trip to Asia and Europe without him, resenting this distribution of her attention...

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...ngs. The first is that Homer’s two poems contain all the development of western literature: the second is that, beyond the theme of the siege and... ... we generally manage to preserve during childhood. Then, at least in the Western world, this beauty disappears. All around us, we see an ever-grow... ...young women, by using either cunning or violence. We must acknowledge that western and eastern thought are very different. The search for harmony, m... ...anize another one. When he finally stopped, after having conquered half of Asia, he did so not because he decided to but because his soldiers, exhau... ...minated. Socrates introduces humility for the first time in the history of Western thought, that he masterfully expresses in the phrase: “I know tha... ...and the Cosmic SELF, is a task that can take a lifetime to accomplish. In Western culture little is mentioned about the connection that must be made...

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... PERIYAR, THE PROPHET OF THE NEW AGE THE SOCRATES OF SOUTH EAST ASIA FATHER OF THE SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENT AND ARCH ENEMY OF IGNORANC... ... by a UNESCO Award as ‘the prophet of the new age, the Socrates of south east Asia, father of the social reform movement and arch enemy of ignorance... ... 19-10-1946] Social Equality If we take the social status of lay people in western countries, there is no social difference based on birth. All ... ...hable spends on himself. If we consider the social status of a common man in western countries there is no discrimination by birth, all are equal. ... ... have accepted it as such? Three thousand years ago, from somewhere in middle Asia, the Aryan tribals were a begging crowd that came here in search... ...But we should not talk about the troubles created by it. What does this mean? Western countries have made plans! How much are we going to become dev... ...? These questions are central to the more than 250 million people in south Asia whose life, dignity and rights are affected by caste based discri...

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...f Adam Kadmon, the world of Atzilut, and the worlds of Beria, Yetzira and Asia. Each of the worlds is also comprised of five Partzufim and each Par... ...a prayer book, or the book of Psalms, perhaps go to the Wailing Wall (the western wall of the temple in Jerusalem) and cry for help from dawn to dus... ...tained through all these pains, it takes the form of worlds: the world of Asia, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut, and the world of Ein Sof. When that contac...

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... a frequent speaker at scientific conferences and conventions in Europe, East Asia and North America, expounding on the links between Kabbalah and ... ... way. Kabbalah strictly objects to any cultural or educational coer- cion from Western countries toward third-world countries. This is harmful to bot...