Re: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy

2002-10-07 Thread Charles Jannuzi
--- Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Korean workers' resistance has been relatively > strong. Other than that I > don't know of how the country has been > resisting the IMF. > > As I understood it, Korea wanted to join with > the "big boys" so it > "reformed its financial sector" i

RE: Re: Re: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy

2002-10-07 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30993] Re: Re: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy here's the abstract from the second paper listed below: >This paper evaluates the neoliberal economic restructuring process implemented in Korea following the 1997 Asian financial crisis. We first a

Re: Re: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy

2002-10-07 Thread F G
>From: Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [PEN-L:30986] Re: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy >Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:50:45 -0400 > >Sabri Oncu wrote: > >>It appears that Korea is

Re: Re: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy

2002-10-07 Thread Michael Perelman
Korean workers' resistance has been relatively strong. Other than that I don't know of how the country has been resisting the IMF. As I understood it, Korea wanted to join with the "big boys" so it "reformed its financial sector" in the mid 90s, leading to all kinds of trouble. On Mon, Oct 07,

Re: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy

2002-10-07 Thread Doug Henwood
Sabri Oncu wrote: >It appears that Korea is not doing well in these days. I remember >that my first exchange on PEN-L was with Brad DeLong. I just >casually wrote, without giving any reasons, at the time that >Korea was at risk and he said, without giving any reasons other >than quoting the Econo

Re: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy

2002-10-07 Thread Louis Proyect
>It appears that Korea is not doing well in these days. I remember >that my first exchange on PEN-L was with Brad DeLong. I just >casually wrote, without giving any reasons, at the time that >Korea was at risk and he said, without giving any reasons other >than quoting the Economist, that the IMF

Re: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy

2002-10-06 Thread Charles Jannuzi
--- Sabri Oncu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles, > > What is happening in Japan? I just saw that > NIKKEI went below > 9000. > > Sabri > As of 16:19 JST, the news puts it at: 東証終値、8688円 8688 yen. That's as low as it has been in almost 20 years. Clearly the 15 year trend line has been f

RE: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy

2002-10-06 Thread Sabri Oncu
Charles, What is happening in Japan? I just saw that NIKKEI went below 9000. Sabri

Re: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy

2002-10-06 Thread Charles Jannuzi
--- Sabri Oncu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears that Korea is not doing well in > these days. I remember > that my first exchange on PEN-L was with Brad > DeLong. I just > casually wrote, without giving any reasons, at > the time that > Korea was at risk and he said, without giving > any r