The economic emergence of a fixed exchange rate periphery in Asia has reestablished the United States as the center country in the Bretton Woods international monetary system. We argue that the normal evolution of the international monetary system involves the emergence of a periphery for which the development strategy is export-led growth supported by undervalued exchange rates
The State of the HK Economy The Hong Kong economy staged a sharp rebound over the course of 1999, recovering robustly from the severe setback brought about by the earlier Asian financial turmoil. The recovery was strongly export-led. In consequence, there was a marked increase in the combined visible invisible trade surplus over the year
The Jerome C Hunsaker Visiting Professor of Aerospace Systems Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology BIOGRAPHY Dr. Leopold had led the Arizona-based licensing and technology transfer business for Motorola Corporate Technology when
6.1 Introduction: the problem of providing nutrition information Developments in nutrition research and improved scientific understanding of the relationship between diet and health have led to increasing interest in the nutritional aspects of the food supply. This interest is shared by academics, health professionals, government officials, consumers and the food and supplement industries alike, although not always for the same reasons and generally at different levels of knowledge and understanding. Interest in nutrition, in respect of both total diet and individual foods, is second only to concern about food safety
