In the former category are the United States, the nations of Western Europe and some of the nations of Southeast Asia; among the latter will be China, Eastern Europe, South Asia and the African countries. ... In reading "the Rise of the Virtual State the author predicts very bright futures for South-east Asia as well as Japan, however, the future for the United States is very bleak indeed. Currently the United States is the leader in the ideal virtual state, while Japan and South-east Asia are virtual states in progress. ... Japan and South-east Asia from a careful, but, brief examination o...

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A common success was observed in South Korea in which both countries share a similar title at the start of the 21 century characterized as one of the 'four Asian Tigers'; a successful implementation of the national family planning program that started in 1962 and this has occurred simultaneously with rapid socioeconomic development. ... Rwanda is a recent success story of rapid fertility decline in Sub-Saharan Africa. ... This impressive decline came after a period of stalled fertility levels in the 1990s, like many other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. ... This is a possible expla...

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NIC's are concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region and include South Korea and Singapore. ... NIC's such as East Asia and the Pacific region averaged a 7.5% growth in 1990-2001, despite severe recessions in the area, as globalisation has meant that the economic growth of these economies has soared in the past few decades. ... The fact is if Africa, East Asia, South Asia and Latin America were to increase their share of world exports by 1c, the gains would lift 128 million people out of poverty. ... However, foreign aid has decreased as a result predominantly in African nation...

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This phenomenon is called interdependency; and an example of interdependency would be when East Asian countries faced the Asian Financial Crisis altogether beginning in 1997, making the situations even worse because all the neighboring countries were economically suffering. ... Globalization in South Korea can be a challenge. ... South Korea has been a pro-Western nation, embracing many aspects about American political ideologies; also, South Korea followed many aspects of Chinese education system. ... Graph of South Korea's annual export from 1971 to 2007. ... Many nations, especially in...

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These essentially include Association of South East Asian Nations, Argentina and Brazil and most importantly, China (Ghose, 14). ... The gap between the rich North and the poor South of the world has not closed despite globalization. ...

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And although starting from a relatively small base, South-South trade (between developing countries) is expanding at an even faster rate than that of world trade overall. ... • Despite increasing South-South trade, the large developed economies – and especially the United States - remain the major market for world exports. ... In all years since 2001, for example, the share of growth in world merchandise trade held by East and South Asia has outpaced that of all other developing countries combined, and a similar proportion prevails in trade of services. ... Thirty-one out of 45 sub...

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Emerging Markets Index of Morgan Stanley's consists of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey. ... Russia is one of the emerging markets in the East. ... "The economic powers of the world are shifting from west to east, and Turkey is one of these growth economies," remarked the prime minister. ...

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