Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two KoreasInstitute for International Economics, 2000 - 431 pagine On the Korean peninsula one of the greatest success stories of the postwar era confronts a famine-ridden-and possibly nuclear-armed-totalitarian state. The stakes are extraordinarily high for both North and South Korea and for countries such as the United States that have a direct stake in these affairs. This study, the most comprehensive volume to date on the subject, examines the current situation in the two Koreas in terms of three major crises: the nuclear confrontation between the United States and North Korea, the North Korean famine, and the South Korean financial crisis. The future of the peninsula is then explored under three alternative scenarios: successful reform in North Korea, collapse and absorption (as happened in Germany), and "muddling through" in which North Korea, supported by foreign powers, makes ad hoc, regime-preserving reforms that fall short of fundamental transformation. |
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... Fund backed off somewhat : additional expenditures on the social safety net amounting to around one - half a percent of GDP were approved , allowing the fiscal deficit target to increase to 0.8 percent of GDP , but the Fund still ...
... Fund and , once it did , engaged in unhelpful tactics . The Fund and its allies had little control over these events , and in November 1997 they confronted a situation that arguably posed a systemic risk to the international financial ...
... fund industry might have been expected to play this role , but it has been the chaebol- controlled funds , most notably Hyundai's Buy Korea Fund , that have played a prominent role , raising obvious conflict of interest concerns . In ...
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Introduction 1347 | 1 |
References | 5 |
The South Korean Economy until 1997 | 15 |
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