Some Small Countries Do It Better - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Some Small Countries Do It Better write by Shahid Yusuf. This book was released on 2012-02-23. Some Small Countries Do It Better available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Countries worldwide are struggling to imitate the industrial prowess of the East Asian pacesetters, but growth accelerations have proven remarkably transient. Building a portfolio of tradable goods and services and steadily raising the level of investment in these activities, has generally defied the best policy efforts - in particular, bringing investment ratios on par with East Asian averages has presented the greatest challenge. Hence the search is on for growth recipes not so tightly bound to investment, to manufacturing activities, and to the export of manufactured products. In casting around for such recipes validated by demonstrated results, the experience of economies which have relied more on other drivers of growth - human capital and knowledge - is highly attractive. Finland and Ireland are among the tiny band of small nations that grew rapidly for well over a decade by achieving the maximum mileage from an adequate investment in physical assets and by harnessing the potential of human capital and technologies. Singapore combined high investment with a comprehensive and complementary strategy of building high quality human and knowledge assets. This approach enabled the three countries to diversify much faster into higher tech manufactures and tradable services and profit from globalization. The approach adopted by these three countries may be of greater relevance in the highly competitive global environment of the early 21st century because it does not necessarily assume heroic levels of investment. Moreover, it may be better tailored to the opportunities for middle and lower middle income economies threatened by the middle income trap and seeking growth rates in the 6 percent range, and for the smaller, late starting, low income countries with youthful, rapidly increasing populations that need to grow at high single digit rates in order to create enough jobs and to double per capita incomes in 10 years.
Some Small Countries Do it Better
Some Small Countries Do it Better - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Some Small Countries Do it Better write by Shahid Yusuf. This book was released on 2012. Some Small Countries Do it Better available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Some Small Countries Do It Better
Some Small Countries Do It Better - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Some Small Countries Do It Better write by Shahid Yusuf. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Some Small Countries Do It Better available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The experiences of Singapore, Finland, and Ireland show how small resource-poor economies, even if peripherally located, can achieve rapid and sustained growth: through a strategy of building quality human capital that attracts technology-intensive FDI and enables national firms to compete in global markets for high-value products and services.
Some Countries Do it Better
Some Countries Do it Better - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Some Countries Do it Better write by Shahid Yusuf. This book was released on 2012. Some Countries Do it Better available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Small Countries, Big Diplomacy
Small Countries, Big Diplomacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Small Countries, Big Diplomacy write by Alounkeo Kittikhoun. This book was released on 2021-10-14. Small Countries, Big Diplomacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book shows how small countries use "big" diplomacy to advance national interests and global agendas – from issues of peace and security (the South China Sea and nuclearization in Korea) and human rights (decolonization) to development (landlocked and least developed countries) and environment (hydropower development). Using the case of Laos, it explores how a small landlocked developing state maneuvered among the big players and championed causes of international concern at three of the world’s important global institutions – the United Nations (UN), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Mekong River Commission (MRC). Recounting the geographical and historical origins behind Laos’ diplomacy, this book traces the journey of the country, surrounded by its five larger neighbors China, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia, and influenced by superpower rivalries, from the Cold War to the post-Cold War eras. The book is written from an integrated perspective of a French-educated Lao diplomat with over 40 years of experience in various senior roles in the Lao government, leading major groups and committees at the UN and ASEAN; and the theoretical knowledge and experience of an American-trained Lao political scientist and international civil servant who has worked for the Lao government and the international secretariats of the UN and MRC. These different perspectives bridge not only the theory-practice divide but also the government insider-outsider schism. The book concludes with "seven rules for small state diplomacy" that should prove useful for diplomats, statespersons, policymakers and international civil servants alike. It will also be of interest to scholars and experts in the fields of international relations and foreign policies of Laos, the Mekong and Asia in general.
