Entries For: 19 October 2007
Liberal Trade Regime: Result card of gains and losses
Globalisation has become a dominant form of pursuing goals of human development in the new world order. Some of the more euphoric admirers of globalisation describe it as a unique phenomenon, which has decoupled space and time and made cultural, economic and social barriers almost redundant. Others consider globalisation as primarily an economic occurrence, which implies the increasing interaction, or integration, of national economic systems through the growth in international trade, investment and capital flows. The process also implies a much broader process of restructuring political economies and diverse cultures into a monolithic entity. read more...
Poor People are not Merely Figures
Today, 17 October 2007 is commemorated as the International Day of Poverty Eradication. In the last couple of years, we have always witnessed the statistical debate about the up and down rate of poverty. The country's authority, like it is with ruling regime, certainly claimed the poverty rate had declined. In the other hand, the non-mainstream economists doubted the claim, they even gave contradictory fact that the number of poor Indonesian people tended to increase. read more...
