Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two KoreasColumbia University Press, 1 giu 2000 - 456 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. |
Dall'interno del libro
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... Financial development Real interest rates Share of GDP due to top 10 chaebol Purchasing power adjusted real GDP per ... sector Relative price of output by sector Percent change in average factor price Capital inflow and exchange rate ...
... Financial development Real interest rates Share of GDP due to top 10 chaebol Purchasing power adjusted real GDP per ... sector Relative price of output by sector Percent change in average factor price Capital inflow and exchange rate ...
Pagina xxxii
... banking sector (which was permitted little freedom from government control) and encouraged the channeling of capital to large politically influential borrowers. As the prominent South Korean economist Cho Soon observed: ''The most ...
... banking sector (which was permitted little freedom from government control) and encouraged the channeling of capital to large politically influential borrowers. As the prominent South Korean economist Cho Soon observed: ''The most ...
Pagina xxxviii
... credit policy aggravated inflation, while low real interest rates encouraged disintermediation and stagnation of the financial sector. By 1978 the economy was overheating. In the following years, the economy was further rocked by the ...
... credit policy aggravated inflation, while low real interest rates encouraged disintermediation and stagnation of the financial sector. By 1978 the economy was overheating. In the following years, the economy was further rocked by the ...
Pagina xxxix
... financial sector. Commercial banks were denationalized, but the state retained the right to appoint boards of directors and senior officers. There was, however, an easing of direct government control of banks and non-bank financial ...
... financial sector. Commercial banks were denationalized, but the state retained the right to appoint boards of directors and senior officers. There was, however, an easing of direct government control of banks and non-bank financial ...
Pagina xlv
... financial sector. We return to this issue in chapter 6. Precrisis. Economic. Policy,. 1987. to. 1997. The Roh government and the successor government of Kim Young-sam continued a gradual process of liberalization both internally and ...
... financial sector. We return to this issue in chapter 6. Precrisis. Economic. Policy,. 1987. to. 1997. The Roh government and the successor government of Kim Young-sam continued a gradual process of liberalization both internally and ...
Sommario
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The North Korean Economy | lxxv |
The Nuclear Confrontation | 3-74 |
The SlowMotion Famine in the North | 3-102 |
The Financial Crisis in the South | 3-126 |
The Prospect for Successful Reform in the North | 3-182 |
The Implications of North Korean Collapse | 285 |
Can the North Muddle Through? | 323 |
Conclusions | 347 |
References | 377 |
Appendix | 401 |
Index
| 405 |
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