Product Description: What are the key foreign economic policy issues facing the United States in the second half of this decade? How can the administration and Congress meet the economic challenges that lie ahead? This new book analyzes the dramatic importance of the world economy to both the domestic prosperity and overall foreign policy of the United States, describes the new global environment (e...read more

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Product Description: This volume addresses the issue of trade liberalization. Can the Individual Action Plans, under which all APEC members annually indicate their agenda for achieving the Bogor targets across a wide range of issues, drive the process effectively? Are additional sectoral deals, like the Information Technology Agreement of 1996, feasible or desirable? Can APEC's regional trade groupings, such as NAFTA and the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement, play a constructive role? How can APEC, which accounts for half of world trade, most effectively utilize its negotiating leverage to promote global liberalization in the WTO? This book also addresses a wide range of other APEC issues such as investment, economic and technical co-operation, sustainable development, and finance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Korean and American policymakers and scholars at the 1995 meeting of the Korea-United States Twenty-First Century Council explored new dilemmas and opportunities presented by recent developments in Korea. In this volume they examine reunification, the impact of North Korean-US nuclear accord, trade frictions between Korea and the United States, and the role the two countries could play in the Asia Pacific, particularly through the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum...read more

Product Description: From 1983 to 1986, the United States was transformed from the world's largest creditor country to the world's largest debtor. It enters the 1990s with a net foreign debt of $700 billion which will rise to at least $1 trillion. This study analyzes the impact on the United States and the world economy, in terms of both economics and national security...read more

Product Description: Book by Bergsten, C. Fred

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Product Description: "Papers presented at a conference held at the Institute for International Economics in October 1990"--Introd.