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How to Engineer a Baby Boom -- Science via UH Electronic Resources
How to Engineer a Baby Boom -- Science via UH Electronic Resources

(2011-07-29) (Access by subscription only. EWC and University of Hawaii Manoa users who cannot access article by clicking on the title may contact a librarian for help at ris@eastwestcenter.org or 808-944-7345) Minja Kim Choe, a demographer at the East-West Center in Honolulu, says baby bonuses have been shown to influence the timing but not the number of births in the countries outside Asia where they've been tried. In the end, East Asia really needs a comprehensive, parent-centered approach to fertility, she wrote in an e-mail: “Only policies that reduce the economic, social, and psychological costs of raising children have some hope of raising fertility.”

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How to Engineer a Baby Boom -- Science via UH Electronic Resources
Mainland politicians told of APEC's arena -- Honollulu Star-Advertiser
Mainland politicians told of APEC's arena -- Honollulu Star-Advertiser

(2011-07-31) Both the United States, the longtime global economic power, and China, the emerging economy, practice capitalism, but vastly different forms of it, said Christopher McNalley, a nonresident fellow at the East-West Center and director of China-U.S. relations at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

Under "Sino capitalism," the largest enterprises in China are entirely or majority owned by the government, McNalley said. At the same time, however, "China has a form of network capitalism of mainly small- and medium-sized enterprises that are extremely flexible and extremely entrepreneurial, and that already have the global imports," he said.

Unlike the "Anglo-American capitalism" model where a competitive market is basically a self-governing and self-regulating force, China, even since before communism, has had "a tributary state, an imperial state that lorded over the economy and you had, yes, small-scale merchant capitalists," McNalley said.

... Charles Morrison, East-West Center president, said that while APEC is not formally a setting where policy negotiation takes place, it is "a forum for leaders at all different levels to get together and discuss these issues and try to develop common approaches."

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Mainland politicians told of APEC's arena -- Honollulu Star-Advertiser
Pakistan racing to placate China: An analysis -- Newstrack India
Pakistan racing to placate China: An analysis -- Newstrack India

(2011-08-03) Satu Limaye, director of the East-West Center in Washington, echoes the sentiment. "I think Beijing can tolerate an awful lot from Pakistan as they can from North Korea. What they absolutely cannot tolerate from either are spillovers into domestic stability. China will pull no punches to make sure Pakistan takes action to stem the infiltration," he said. -- Also appears in: Asian News International, Hindustan Times, New Kerala, TruthDive

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Pakistan racing to placate China: An analysis -- Newstrack India