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Author: Edgar Franz
Publisher: IUDICIUM Verlag
Keywords: west, japan, middle, nineteenth, century, opening, action, von, franz, siebold, russian, policy, philipp
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2005-08
ISBN-10: 3891298714
ISBN-13: 9783891298718
Edgar Franz deserves credit for having been the first to use Siebold's private papers and manuscripts to provide a detailed analysis of his influence on Russia's policy on opening up Japan. Franz proves that Siebold's intimate knowledge of Japan and his sensitive attitude to the Japanese mentality were crucial to Russian negotiations. Subsequently Russia was the first foreign nation to succeed in concluding a treaty with Japan that included establishing trade relations between the two nations. It has been possible to verify Siebold's significance for the modernization of Japan, the political d
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Author: Charles Albert Michalet
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: opening, central, eastern, europe, investment, direct, multinationals, competition, foreign, strategies
Number of Pages: 50
Published: 1997-12
ISBN-10: 0821341618
ISBN-13: 9780821341612
Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS) Occasional Paper. Is there a trade-off among countries in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI)? And, in particular, has the opening up of Central and Eastern Europe diverted FDI that otherwise would
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Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: waste, pilot, plan, isolation, opening, uncertainties, nuclear
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 1996-10-01
ISBN-10: 0788133985
ISBN-13: 9780788133985
In 1998, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) plans to begin a $19 billion program to dispose of 176,000 c.m. of transuranic waste that will be permanently stored in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a repository near Carlsbad, NM. However, DoE must first obtain from EPA a certificate of compliance with its disposal regulations for radioactive waste and meet the requirements of RCRA for handling and disposing of hazardous waste. This report assesses the prospects for opening WIPP and determines how well DoE is positioned to begin filling it in the first few years of operation and longer.
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Author: William F. Ryan
Publisher: IDRC
Keywords: opening, dialogue, development, economic, spirituality, culture
Number of Pages: 81
Published: 1995-12
ISBN-10: 0889367825
ISBN-13: 9780889367821
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Author: Carlo Maria Rossotto
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: communication, voice, international, competition
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2004-11
ISBN-10: 0821359517
ISBN-13: 9780821359518
"This title presents the case that opening international voice communication to competition is key to reform the telecommunications sector, is sustainable in developing countries, and results in major gains to consumers, businesses, and to the economy. Over the last 20 years full competition became a dominant attribute in virtually all high-income countries and in selected developing countries. Three forces were behind competition: globalization, technological change, and the emergence of international telecommunications as an enabler for integration and trade. Now over 80 percent of global vo
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