Sponsored by the CitiGroup Foundation, Asia Business Today features “online resources developed by the Asia Society for information on US/Asia economic and business relations, Asia’s role in the international economy, and the costs and benefits of economic ‘globalization.'” The site provide an impressive collection of reference materials on the nature of relations between the US and Asia on a host of subjects including Energy, Asia Management and Human Resource Issues, Media, and Telecommunications. Each of these categories offers related documents and Websites. Country Listings offers extensive information on Asian countries including economic statistics, Internet portals, company listings, and market information. The site also offers information on jobs and travel in Asia.
Sources: “Asia Society”, “CitiGroup Foundation”
Subject: International – Asia
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FWIW, when I visited, the site was kind of slow
“…the computer revolution has been going on for years, whereas the economy’s turbocharge came only in the second half of the 1990s. Why?
…It is not crazy to suspect what I think of as the New Old Economy.
…Although at this point no one can prove anything, a story that seems plausible to many economists and business executives goes like this: In the 1980s Old Economy businesses tended to waste much of what they spent on computers and software. Companies in traditional industries would drop a PC on every desk and declare themselves computerized; they would buy spreadsheet programs and word-processing software and networking equipment that as often as not just substituted new frustrations for old ones. This began to change, however, as software and hardware grew in power, and as companies began learning how to use them not just as conveniences or crutches but to change the nature of the job. At first the impact, like a misty drizzle, was too small to show up in the national economic statistics. However, each innovation enabled other innovations, none of them revolutionary but all of them combining in an accelerating cascade. By the second half of the 1990s the aggregate effect on productivity became large enough to register in the national accounts, and the line between the New Economy and the Old Economy began to blur. That is the story of the New Old Economy.”