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...absorbing pigments. In Australia, scientists believe that crops of wheat, sorghum and peas have been affected, and health officials report a threefold rise in skin cancers. There are anecdotal reports of more cancer in Argentina too. While no increase in cancers or cataracts has shown up yet in Chile or New Zealand, experts note that these diseases can take years to develop...
This simply underlines how many games there now are in town. New York, London and Tokyo may be the heavyweights, but there is action in Thailand, Jordan and Chile as well. Datastream International, a company that provides market data, tracks 40 stock markets worldwide. Brokerage houses now need the horizons of travel agents to satisfy a clientele no longer content to stay at home. Much treasure lies buried on distant shores, in places that used to show up only in holiday brochures or travelogues...
According to a study by Morgan Stanley Capital International, the 1991 world champions came from Latin America. The markets in Argentina, Mexico and Chile were up 403%, 120% and 106%, respectively, after converting local currency gains into dollars. (Brazil, an even higher flyer, lost out on conversion: the cruzeiro sank about as fast as the market rose.) But it wasn't just a Latin carnival. The Philippine stock market trebled Wall Street's 26% gain, Hong Kong nearly doubled it, and Australia matched...
...advising Yeltsin, has never seen anything like the situation in Russia, where basic institutions like a central bank hardly work. In December, Sachs and several foreign economists met twice with Yeltsin, who told them that studies he and his advisers had made of other economic reforms from Poland to Chile had led them to conclude that nothing short of shock therapy could rescue the Russian economy...
...medicine is driving people into the & streets. Last week he called the Russian situation "politically very risky." But he says the slower approach that Yeltsin's critics advocate will only prolong the agony without providing the benefits of a market economy. Sachs notes that in cases like Bolivia and Chile, where shock policies have worked, it took about five years "to make the changes so widespread and visible that they became self-sustaining." But will the Russian people -- and their politicians -- have that much patience...