Combating poverty: industrialisation remains the best bet

Article Abstract:

Many countries in Asia have sought to revitalize their respective economies by providing the agricultural sector with the necessary financial and social support. This has often been done through the formation of farmers' cooperatives. Thailand's cooperatives have almost four million members, 1.6 million of whom are involved in agriculture. Indonesia has only one cooperative, the Koperasi Unit Desa formed in 1967 to increase the earning power of farmers. The failure of cooperatives to effect growth in these two countries and others like them in Asia, underscores the need for them to resort to industrialization to bring about economic development.

Economic aspects, Industrial development, Industrialization, Agricultural cooperatives, Agriculture, Cooperative

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Heart of darkness

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Rapidly developing countries in Asia are now faced with power shortages that threaten the phenomenal economic growth. Aside from power shortages, shortcomings in infrastructure development also stand as obstacles to continued economic development in the region. Manufacturing and export-oriented industries are already feeling the effects ofinadequate power supply and inefficient transportation and telecommunication services. To stimulate infrastructure development by the private sector, most of the countries in the region are turning to the build-operate-transfer scheme.

Cover Story, Energy use, Economic development, Energy research, Energy development

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Home before abroad

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The state of the telecommunications industry in Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and India is presented. Malaysia has eclipsed Thailand in exports of telecommunication products and equipment, while Thailand has benefited from its decision to open up its telecommunications industry to the private sector. In the Philippines, the new government needs to erase a lot of bad policies started by the Marcos administration and continued by the Aquino government. Also, inefficiency caused by the monopoly in the country's telecommunications must be broken down.

Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Reports, Telecommunications systems, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

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