Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Urged by his key allies ?- Washington and Beijing ?- to end the Kashmir incursion, Nawaz is a lonely man facing a tough choice. He can?t do without financial aid from the West or military assistance from China, but Nawaz may find it difficult to carry out the promised withdrawal under...
Adversity is supposed to come with a silver lining. Has Asia's crisis laid the foundation for sounder economic growth in the future? The answer is a definite maybe. The crisis has curbed some of the worst abuses of crony capitalism, and it has tempered the dangerous belief that "Asian...
Still, it is hard to escape the feeling that a dangerous complacency is setting in. When Mexico started to recover from its 1995 "tequila" crisis, policymakers and investors alike acted as if it had been a one-time event, never to be repeated. But it turned out to be a...
Why own them at all? They've been down a long time, and if the economies of emerging nations take flight those nations' companies--potentially among the fastest growing on the planet--will soar in value. Even though the long malaise in Japan illustrates that an economy can take decades...
Suppose that in the three decades since affirmative action has been in place, middle-class black students had brought their SAT scores up to those of whites. We wouldn't be arguing about whether letting more blacks into the best colleges meant lowering standards. But between 1988 and 1998, the...