Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about three weeks, India, the world's largest democracy, will be going to the polls. To discuss the current state of democracy in South Asia, the Harvard-Radcliffe South Asian Association (SAA) held its third annual Academic Forum last weekend...
About 75 students and members of the community attended the panel discussion on "Democracy in South Asia," held in the Kennedy School of Government's Malcolm Weiner Auditorium on Saturday...
Both Harvard and the outside world have not only survived this development but prospered and grown at an unprecedented rate. As we are moving toward the turn of the century, however, drastic changes are occurring. Most notably, the opening of emerging markets, specifically South East Asia and Eastern Europe, and the high-tech revolution have increased competition, challenges and, most notably, uncertainty. Even at a university with both stature and tradition, these changes have not passed by without notice, and a situation not dissimilar to the one described by the members of the classes...
When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, both the United States and Western Europe celebrated the beginning of a new era. Seven years later, economic realities have transformed much of the initial joy into uneasiness; there have been similar developments in Asia. Despite the increased opportunities these new emerging markets and peoples offer, they have also increased competition dramatically. International trade, previously heavily regulated and dominated by informal agreements and long-term relationships, has opened to fierce worldwide competition. The low wages and social security costs combined with a hard-working workforce in the emerging markets have initiated a somewhat...
Baker also expressed concern over the political situation in China and emphasized that the U.S. should maintain firm foreign policies in Southeast Asia...