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Rapid Economic Growth in China: Implications for the World Economy
Brookings Institution, 1997Rapid growth of the Chinese economy in the past decade and its potential for strong growth into the foreseeable future have caused anxieties in the rest of the world. Some commentators see Chinese growth wholly in terms of competition for trade and investment opportunities with other developing economies and a major cause of structural adjustments in the advanced industrialized economies.DocumentAssessment and monitoring of forest and tree resources
World Forestry Congress, 1999The interest for better information about forest resources is growing at both national and international level. Demands for new types of information are now frequently being raised (regarding e.g. biological diversity, non- wood forest products, forest quality). The conceptual and methodological basis to satisfy many of these new demands, however, is insufficient.DocumentSub-Saharan Africa science support programme
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999The AAAS Sub-Saharan Africa Program was inaugurated by AAAS in 1987, representing a concerned response on the part of U.S. scientists and educators to the institutional crisis their African colleagues were facing. Its establishment also represents the commitment on the part of U.S. scientific societies and donors to attempt to work with African institutions in order to address that crisis.DocumentTransformation of Minority Identities in Post-Colonial Nigeria
Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1997Ethnic minority identities and their associated politics of disadvantage have been a central feature of post-colonial Nigerian politics.DocumentThe Egyptian stabilization experience : an analytical retrospective
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997This paper analyzes the successful Egyptian stabilization experience during the 1990s, focusing on its distinctive features and contrasting them with the recent experiences of other developing countries that undertook adjustment. The successful stabilization provides a sound launching pad for Egypt's acceleration of structural reforms, which were designed to raise Egypt's economic growth rate.DocumentDebt reduction and new loans : a contracting perspective
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997DocumentInstitutional development : skill transference through a reversal of "human capital flight" or technical assistance
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997DocumentExternal finance and foreign debt in central and eastern European countries
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997DocumentSources of debt accumulation in a small open economy
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997It is widely believed that developing countries borrowed heavily on international financial markets based on the perception that the favorable external environment (low world interest rates and increasing commodity prices) of the 1970s would last. But, the commodity price booms of the mid- and late 1970s were short-lived and the period of low interest rates ended by the early 1980s.