JAPAN: Stagnation presentsmajor policy challenge

While macroeconomic problems are at the heart of Japan's current malaise, microeconomic (or...

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SOUTH KOREA: Shipbuilding supports arouse EU ire

The EU has accused South Korea of providing what amount to unfair subsidies to its shipbuilding...

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The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice last month issued an Opinion concerning...

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Pakistan is facing its fourth successive year of drought and water shortages....

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Javakheti has many of the features common to the country's separatist regions, and fears of...

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Growing economic ties between China and the EU -- now China's third largest trade partner --...

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Japan has threatened to invoked emergency restrictions on three agricultural products imported...

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Brazilian mining giant Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) is to consolidate its position as the...

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The government has revised downwards its GDP forecast for 2001 to 3.5-5.5% from 5.0-7.0%, based...

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At a ministerial meeting last weekend, 2006 was set as the target date for the inauguration of...

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