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How Significant and Effective are North Korea's "Market Reforms"?
John McKay*
In July 2002, the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (hereafter referred to for the sake of simplicity as the DPRK or North Korea) initiated a series of economic reforms that have been heralded by some as important first steps in the establishment of a true market economy in the country. ...
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John McKay*
The rise of China as an industrial and exporting power over the last few years has been remarkable. In 2002, Chinese exports reached $US325 billion, more than twice the 1996 level of $US150 billion. As this growth continues, there is also an expansion of linkages in East Asia ( Australia , 2003). ...
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Education and Skills Development in the Transformation of South Korea: Some Lessons for Africa
John McKay*
The economic success of South Korea (hereafter, Korea ) in its drive to industrialisation since 1961 has excited a great deal of international interest, and in the process has generated a very large body of literature. Many alternative theories have been put forward to account for this dramatic transformation, but one of the most popular has stressed the importance of education and human resource development. ...
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ASEAN Plus Three & Alternative Institutional Visions of Economic Co-operation: Implications for APEC
John McKay*
In discussing the possible focus of this paper and how it might fit into the rest of the APIAN session, Richard Feinberg strongly suggested that I should include the word “institutional” in the title to highlight an emphasis on the precise institutional arrangements within the ASEAN Plus 3 grouping (APT). ...
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Integrating Traditional and Human Security Perspectives: Some Imperatives for the Current Situation in East Asia
John McKay*
In recent meetings of leaders a range of security issues has been discussed, and commented on in Leaders' Declarations. This is hardly surprising given the devastating impact of terrorist attacks in various places, and potential for terrorism to cause severe damage to international trade. ...
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The Bogor Goals and Beyond: Continuing the Spirit of Reform & Developing a New APEC Agenda
John McKay*
It gives me particular pleasure to be part of this important meeting preparing for APEC 2005 and the year of Korea . Seoul is of course very important in the history of APEC, for it was here that former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke made the detailed proposal that led to the establishment of APEC in 1989. ...
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John McKay*
The centrality of concerns about terrorism and armed conflicts of various in discussions about global trade and development is of comparatively recent origin, but already the issue has come to dominate debate in many fora, including APEC. The reason is not hard to find. ...
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Sciences for Health and Well-Being
Mark L. Wahlqvist
A scientific basis for preventive health and health care is the acknowledged position of most enlightened societies, however modulated by local belief and culture. Science has been slow, however, to underpin the quest for well-being with science, partly because it and its contributors are less measurable. ...
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Food variety and biodiversity: Econutrition
Mark L. Wahlqvist and Raymond L Specht
At present, there are countless, possibly 10 million (excluding microbes), species of living things, microbial, plant and animal, both vertebrate and invertebrate, with an animal extinction measured in at least the thousands (approximately 10 000 invertebrates each year). ...
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Mark L. Wahlqvist, Antigone Kouris-Blazos and Gayle Savige
In both the developed and developing worlds, the human population is inexorably aging (Figure 1). The developing and transitional economies are the more populous, thus the majority of the world's over-65 year population will shortly, if not already, be outside the developed world (Andrews et al, 1986). ...
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Nutrition in the Nineties: Policy Issues
Mark L. Wahlqvist et al.
Early detection of those at high risk in communities of older people through documentation of their nutritional status will facilitate prevention and correction of nutritionally-related health problems. For this purpose, instruments to assess food-health relationships, such as those of the IUNS, may need to be acquired at the local level by health workers. ...
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Nutrition and Ageing in Development
Mark L. Wahlqvist, Widjaja Lukito, and Bridget H-H. Hsu-Hage
By the year 2001, about 60 per cent of the human population aged 65 years and above will be those of the developing world (Andrews, 1986). This indicates a 78 per cent net increase in the age group 65 years and above in developing countries in the period 1980 to 2000. ...
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John McKay, Damien Kingsbury, Joseph Remenyi & Janet Hunt*
The notion of development has evolved from a relatively straightforward concern with industrialization plus increasing gross domestic product to a much more complex mix of quality of life, participation, empowerment and good governance - all of which have remained elusive to many of the world's poor. This major new text provides a critical interdisciplinary introduction to the theory, practice and study of development at the start of the Twenty-first-century. ...
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The Food Crisis in the DPRK: Prospects for Policy Reform
John McKay*
Of all of the problems that have beset the economy of the DPRK in recent years, it is the desperate food situation that has probably attracted most international attention. Estimates of the number of deaths that have resulted from the famine vary widely, but it seems likely that as many as two to three million people may have died from malnutrition or related diseases. ...
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Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) - Successes, Weaknesses and Future Prospects
John McKay*
It is now more than a decade since the first meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum was held in Canberra , in 1989. Since then, opinions about APEC, its achievements and future role have ranged from the wildly optimistic to the utterly dismissive. ...
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John McKay*
The brutal impacts of the financial crises in Asia in 1997/98 have called into question what had earlier been regarded as an infallible engine of growth, the Asian Development Model. ...
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Punching Above its Weight? New Directions in Australian Foreign Policy Since 1996
John McKay*
In many countries, the debate about the legitimacy and desirability of the US-led invasion of Iraq has deeply divided public opinion, and in this respect Australia is certainly not an exception. But in Australia what this intense disputation has done is to highlight important differences in approaches to foreign policy that have in fact been apparent since the victory of the Liberal/National Party Coalition in the election of 1996. ...
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