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Author: Beatrice Weder
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Keywords: east, asian, experience, governments, role, myth, miracle, reassessing, model
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1999
ISBN-10: 9280810308
ISBN-13: 9789280810301
Before the financial crisis of the late 1990s, the East Asian experience was hailed as a miracle and a model of successful development. A broad consensus had been reached on the role of governments in engineering this economic success, and rapid growth was generally attributed to sound policies that were underpinned by a solid institutional framework.In the aftermath of the financial crisis, however, the miracle has been dismissed as a myth and a bad example that other countries should avoid. Critics allege that governments not only made serious policy mistakes, but also that the institutional
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Author: Unknown
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: usefulness, antibiotics, preserving, superbugs, drugs, miracle
Number of Pages: 12
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ISBN-10: 1422326616
ISBN-13: 9781422326619
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Author: Shahid Javed Burki
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: economies, 1990s, emerging, reality, perceptions, altered, changing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000
ISBN-10: 0821345923
ISBN-13: 9780821345924
There was the economic development "miracle" in the East Asia Region, then the great crash. In the Latin American and Caribbean region, there remain question marks, little increased growth, and no "miracle" in sight.Given the opportunity to observe both of these regions first hand over a 25-year period, Shahid Javed Burki, relates his observations, perceptions, and comparisons of these diverse emerging economies. As he departs the World Bank, Mr. Burki leaves this contribution to the store of Bank knowledge for future reference. It is both a professional and personal narrative of two dynamic r
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Author: Jon Barron
Publisher: Basic Health Publications
Keywords: relief, catastrophic, illness, health, optimum, miracle, doctors, guide, lessons
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2008-10-06
ISBN-10: 1591202248
ISBN-13: 9781591202240
While modern medicine has made many remarkable advances, in terms of treating and preventing most chronic illnesses of the modern era_heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer_s disease_modern medicine stands as an object failure. Each year we spend more and more on health care with little good health to show for it. Well, there is an alternative.Holistic healers, herbalists, and renegade medical doctors throughout the world are performing miracles on a daily basis. Thousands of people have come to these _miracle doctors_ certain that they were terminally ill and have left p
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Author: Bernarr MacFadden
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: milk, home, scientifically, diet, miracle
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2001-08-26
ISBN-10: 1557095116
ISBN-13: 9781557095114
More advice from Physical Culturist Bernarr MacFadden. Originally published in 1923, this book touts the health benefits of milk and outlines the milk diet, which "properly prepared for and properly used, is capable of bringing about miraculous changes in the physical organism."
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