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Article: Pacific Basin Developing Countries: Prospects for the Future.
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- Southern Economic Journal
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- April 1, 1992
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By Marcus Noland. Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1990. Pp. xvi, 2 2.
A few years ago governors of Southern states issued a clarion call warning us about the failure of American education to prepare our citizens for competing in the world market. "We know neither the globe nor the cultures of people who habit it. . . . We are no longer isolated by the large oceans on either side of our nation. Our economic and political future depends on the ability to communicate with the understand people across national boundaries [3]. Perhaps a partial answer, albeit quite incomplete, to such a warning is a small research volume. The Pacific Basin ...