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Chapter 8

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Essay Questions

Essay question: Since the 1970s East Asia has been the world’s most successful region in terms of rates of economic growth. How can this best be explained?

Links to Websites

American Memory, Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/
Contains From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824–1909 comprising nearly 400 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1824–1909, by African–American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, emancipation, reconstruction and related topics.

Asian Development Bank: http://www.adb.org
The ADB is a multilateral development finance agency (owned by countries in the Asia–Pacific region) whose goal is to reduce poverty in Asia and the Pacific. In addition to information about ADB and its activities, this website contains data and research covering, for example, the Asian financial crisis.

Facts on File News Service: http://www.facts.com/
This website provides news information from internet sources, with weekly updates from the Facts on File World News Digest, in addition to regular updates from Reuters. Its country profiles provide a detailed history, which includes the colonial past of former colonies.

United Nations and Decolonization: http://www.un.org/Depts/dpi/decolonization/main.htm
This website provides information on decolonization for the countries that have gained their independence and joined the United Nations since the Second World War.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD): http://www.unctad.org/
This website offers publications and data on trade, investment and economic development issues as they relate to the LDCs, including the latest edition of the annual Least Developed Countries Report and the annual Trade and Development Report: Developing Countries in World Trade, as well as the annual World Investment Report, which contains information and data on DC and NIC TNCs, and FDI in the LDCs.

World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/
This website offers research and statistics on economic development and world trade as it relates to the LDCs, including its 2002 publication, Globalization, Growth and Poverty: Building an Inclusive Economy, and its annual edition of Global Economic Prospects.