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...Analysts suspect that virtually all of China's bankers have skeletons in their closets. Observers argue that wholesale replacement is impossible because of the nation's dearth of experienced, upright managers. "There's no question reform is happening," says Pu Yonghao, senior economist at Nomura International in Hong Kong and a former BOC employee. "But the banks are only mimicking modern, Western practices. Inside, the Chinese personnel just don't have what it takes to make changes quickly enough...
...Incoming President Arroyo is a modest and moderate economist and former Georgetown University classmate of President Clinton, and she has vowed to pursue the economic liberalization policies started by the conservative former president Fidel Ramos. But it remains far from clear that Estrada's removal will end the corruption and almost theatrical political instability that have become endemic to the Philippines. Business and politics have been intimately and often improperly intertwined for decades in the Philippines, and the World Bank estimates that corruption has cost the country some $48 billion over the past 20 years. It was precisely by (falsely...
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Summers' interest in the broader aspects of intellectual discourse continued at the World Bank, where he became a vice president and chief economist in 1991, and then at the Treasury Department...
They see him as a candidate who combines the intellectual credentials of his career as an economist--he was the first in his profession to win the National Science Foundation's top prize for scientific achievement--with the managerial aptitude he gained in the administration...