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If 2008 was the year of the global financial crisis, 2009 is turning out to be the year of the real economy fallout: a case of Après Lehman, le déluge. It now seems almost unavoidable that 2009 will see the world economy contract in real terms, producing the worst performance for global growth since World War II. International trade and capital flows have been falling so precipitously that deglobalization is threatening to replace globalization as the best description of our current international economic environment. Soft protectionism-in the form of local content provisions and financial mercantilism-is on the rise. Commodity prices have crashed. Unemployment is climbing, as is social unrest, and governments have started to topple.
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086481
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2009.
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The Rohingya, a people previously unknown to many, were recently the focus of international media attention when two groups tataling around 1000 people landed on the shores of Thailand.
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086466
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2009.
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Has the global financial crisis changed the calculus of foreign direct in vestment in China. Where does investment in China fit into the immediate adjustments and teh mid-term strategic plans of major mulinationals.
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086480
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2009.
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The global financial and economic crisis are recalculating the balance of power between the United States, Europe and China. In Washington, President Barack Obama is expected to adopt a more collaborative approach to international politics.
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086471
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2009.
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The Sri Lankan governement is on the cusp of achieving what once seemed impossible. Its armed forces are crushing the liberation tigers of Tamil Eelam on the battlefield, having pushed the rebels out of their northern stronghold and surrounded them in few coastal villages.
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086478
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2009.
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Drawing on czechoslovakia's charter 77, an informal collective of social critics who in 1977 decried human rights abuses, China's charter 08 reads: For China, the path that leads out of our current predicament is to divest ourselves of the authoritarian notion of reliance on an enlightened overload or an honest official and to turn instead toward a system of liberties, democracy, and the rule of law, and toward fortering the consciosness of modern citizens who see rights as fundamental and participation as duty.
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086473
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2009.
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No one will ever know exactly how many people died from executions, starvation and disease during the Khmer Rouge's reign to terror, which lasted for three years, eight months, and 20 days, from April 1975 to January 1979.
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086462
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2009.
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India's economic growth is now trending downward, but not everything can be ascribed to the global financial crisis. The present cycle of economic reforms in India dates to 1991. These reforms were triggered by an external balance of payments crisis in 1990-91.
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086476
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2009.
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China has suffered a succession of crisis over the last two years stmming from official corruption and negligence. All have dialed up the heat on simmering resentment of the government, and more than a few have erupted into full blown public protests.
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086470
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2009.
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Malaysia's planned leadership transition at the end of March from Ahmad Abdullah Badawi to Mohamed Najib Razak masks a fundamental reconfiguration of Malaysian politics. The United Malays National Organization is in long term decline, after losing support among Malays for at least a decade.
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086469
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2009.
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Pascal Lamy, the Director general of the World Trade Organisation, has been sounding the alarm bells as he warns that political leaders around the world should refrain from responding to the global finance crisis by enacting protectionist measures that will only cause trade frows to shrink even further.
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086465
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2009.
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The unprecedented colapse of Satyam Computer Systems, till last year India's fourth-largest information technology company, has cast a long shadow on the reputation of India's coporte world. It is impossible to say if there are more Satyam hidden in India
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086454
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2009.
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The global economy is facing a very cheerless 2009. The OECD economies are sliding or already have slid into recession. Developing Asian countries face weaker demand for exports, lower flows of remittances and less investment. Lower energy prices may help some countries, but generally lower commodity prices hurt. The first table shows that the estimates of growth for 2009 fell as last year ended and the new one began. The countries more involved with international trade are clearly suffering the most with Singapore and Thailand expected to be in recession and Malaysia to eke out only slender growth. For some countries, the impact on growth may not seem horribly large, but these are moving targets and the bad news continues to come.
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