Progress may not be observable in the earliest stages of democracy.

By next year, about two-thirds of American physicians will be working as salaried employees of large groups and hospitals. This movement has been underway for years. Over the last decade, the number of independent physicians was falling by about 2% a year. But these trends are now accelerating. 

On these quite intensive days for Government and the Parliament we deem it relevant and appropriate to reflect upon the issue of competition. This word has been frequently abused and idolized as the goal of any market process instead of being considered an instrument, a process regulated for the benefit...

This conference will examine Asian integration and efforts to create or strengthen regional economic, political, and security institutions. Will East Asian countries be able to build on largely bilateral trade and financial negotiations to construct regional political and security institutions? How will they reconcile or meld the overlapping activities of...

This conference will examine Asian integration and efforts to create or strengthen regional economic, political, and security institutions. Will East Asian countries be able to build on largely bilateral trade and financial negotiations to construct regional political and security institutions? How will they reconcile or meld the overlapping activities of...

This conference will examine Asian integration and efforts to create or strengthen regional economic, political, and security institutions. Will East Asian countries be able to build on largely bilateral trade and financial negotiations to construct regional political and security institutions? How will they reconcile or meld the overlapping activities of...

The United States’ lack of involvement in the increasingly integrated economic development of East Asia may have a profound effect on American producers, consumers, and overall U.S. economic growth. Countries in the Asia-Pacific region are embracing integrated economic regimes through bilateral trade agreements and the formation of regional multilateral architecture....

Two competing paths to East Asian integration are emerging: one, symbolized by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), is a broad trans-Pacific vision; the other, more recent and still amorphous, is exclusive to East Asia itself, and symbolized by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Plus Three process and negotiations....