Second, past and current military and diplomatic policy. ... Foreign Policy Albanias' foreign policy is complicated by having some three to four million ethnics living outside of Albania. ... They don't have the military or economic resources to do much about it. ... After thousands came in 1997, Italy considered military action, but declined (European Forum). ... Some of the funds need to come from foreign aid. ...
The country even experienced a food shortage so that it had to heavily rely on the foreign aid. ... Before the military government in 1961, the loan decisions of commercial banks were heavily influenced by political interference (Haggard, 26). ... Since the mid 1960s, the military government used regulated finance as one of tool to create rent and achieve exports expansion. ... Since foreign aid started to decline later 1960s, the government reformed interest rate. ... The First Five Year plan (1962 - 1966) The first plan was prepared in a hurry by the military government that took power in 19...
In addition to the effects of import substitution policies, the post-World War II Argentine economy further struggled because of military rule and internal conflict. ... By pegging the peso to a strong currency like the U.S. dollar, the confidence of the international community began to grow because foreign investors believed they could invest in a growing economy without the fear that the purchasing power or value of their investments would shrink. Argentina started to attract a lot of foreign capital, which created stability, substantially reduced inflation, and promoted growth. ... Howev...
U.S. aided more than any nation through military and economic assistance. ... Without them foreign capital and technology into the economy is likely to be a wasted effort (Eckert et al., 1990, p. 400). The country's low standard of living and low pay invited and promoted foreign investments. ... Korea was in dire need of new sourced of foreign exchange. ...
If foreign ownership buys it up, many jobs will also be lost, as well as many profits and products. ... A bracing wind is blowing through the open door: China follows the policies of its East Asian neighbours on foreign trade and investment. ... China will also receive a lot of foreign investment from countries, especially japan, which will hit poor parts of China. ... China is on its way. the West should prepare China's interests lay in foreign investment, trade and economic reform. ... If they continue to grow at the rate China grows, and keep improving their economy, and join the lik...
Seapower was necessary to control foreign markets because a powerful merchant fleet would avoid the need to borrow ships of other nations and become dependent on the assistance of other nations as well. A power fleet could provide more prestige and military power to a nation. ... They prohibited foreign ships form entering Spanish colonial ports. ...
It signed long term contracts with producers of bauxite prohibiting them to supply bauxite to any other American firm, it entered in agreement with foreign producers of aluminum not to export aluminum to each other's market and it went as far as purchasing electricity only from those firm which agree not to sell electricity to other aluminum producing firms. ... It was during the early 1990's when Russia's internal demand by its military and industrial complex vanished after the collapse of communism. ...
Japan went to the peace conference at Versailles in 1919 as one of the great military and industrial powers of the world and received official recognition as one of the "Big Five" of the new international order. ... MITI worked closely with Japanese business interests, and was largely responsible for keeping the domestic market closed to most foreign companies (Japan 101). ... Polls in the United States have indicated that the Americans rank the Japanese economic threat higher than the Russian military threat. ...
In international relations, a state in its conventional structure is possibly most suitably described as a clearly distinct territory which: (i) is acknowledged internationally as a state, (ii) is presided over by a government able to construct and implement independent decisions regarding domestic policy and law and foreign policy, (iii) is permanently occupied by an explicit population. ... Other challenges to the sovereign state Globalization brings with it vast advancements in technology, particularly in the areas of information and communications and also the military. ...
The classic instrument for restraining trade is to impose taxes on imported goods (called tariffs) so that foreign products are artificially expensive and can't compete with domestic goods. ... Similarly there exist restrictions on foreign investment or the movement of capital. ... From a political perspective, foreign competition can bankrupt domestic businesses (which may benefit consumers with better value, more efficient goods, but disadvantages domestic companies whose employees face redund...
Finance minister Amara Konneh says that's mostly because of damage done to mining, agriculture and service industries, as investors evacuate foreign workers, borders close, and international flights are suspended. ... The government is putting in place fiscal austerity measures to compensate for that, including suspending all official foreign travel. ... In the Ebola-afflicted parts of west Africa where health systems have been overwhelmed, some foreign companies are already pulling out workers. A number of big mining firms have evacuated foreign staff and shut down non-essential operatio...
Globalisation The word globalisation has become a buzzword since its inception at the beginning of the 1990s. A cottage industry on globalisation has emerged from which academics and intellectuals make a living by writing articles and travelling the world debating with others. The financial and business sections of broadsheet newspapers are continuously littered with issues concerning globalisation and meetings are frequently held by the superpowers to discuss the state of the global economy, such as the meetings in Doha in Qatar, Cancun in Mexico and the IMF summit in Dubai. As a result of...
Now the fiscal, monetary, and trade policies have been started to work ithout tion of politicians, bureaucrats, and military rulers, and statutory orders that effect almost every single aspect of running a business. ... The first institution - Khushali Bank formed by certain foreign and domestic banks, in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank, has already started operations in 30 districts of the country. ...
