"Buy America" In US Stimulus Package.
On January 28, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives approved an $819-billion economic stimulus bill, including strict "Buy America" rules for steel and iron used in infrastructure projects funded by the bill. The U.S. Senate is currently considering a bill that would extend the "Buy America" requirement to manufactured...

Salvador Araneta's 'Bayanikasan Constitution'.
A "MUST read" for future leaders of the country, if they hadn't read it earlier, is "Economic Re-examination of the Philippines," a collection of speeches and studies on the subject by foremost nationalist and patriot, Salvador Araneta. First published in 1953, it was reprinted in 2000 by the Sahara...

2008 foreign trade friction for the petrochemical sector.
Foreign trade has shown rapid growth in China's petrochemical sector in the years since December 2001--its entry into WTO--and that friction remains a major factor in the development of the domestic petrochemical sector. According to incomplete statistics by China Chemical Reporter, 7 countries and regions initiated 41...

Arroyo urges expansion of G7 to G20 or even G30.
President Arroyo has called on US President Barack Obama to move quickly with his plan to fix the American economy, saying the last thing the world needs is for the United States, whose credit crisis triggered the global financial meltdown, to do nothing. Attending the World Economic...

NEWSWEEK International Editions: Highlights and Exclusives, February 9, 2009 Issue.
COVER: Obama's Vietnam (All Overseas Editions). National Security Correspondent John Barry and Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas lay out the growing parallels between the war in Afghanistan and our long struggle in Vietnam. "The parallels are disturbing: the president, eager to show his toughness, vows to do what it takes to...

Asia could see rapid economic recovery in 2010: IMF chief.
TOKYO, Feb. 3 (AFP) - Asia's economies could recover rapidly next year from their slump once the rest of the world claws out of recession, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. "Once the world economy regains its footing a rapid recovery is possible,'' Dominique...

NYT preview of stories.
The following is a preview of stories appearing in the Manila Bulletin's New York Times supplement. Read the full stories when you get the Saturday copy of the paper. GLOBAL The Upside to Resisting GlobalizationBy FLOYD NORRISAs globalization spread in recent decades, open economies grew faster than closed ones....

Russian President Supports Call for Coordinated EU-Russia Action and End to 'Protectionism and Isolation' in Combating Economic Crisis.
Medvedev's Remarks Could Signal Attempt to Ease East-West Tensions NEW YORK, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of the EU-Russia Summit and this weekend's G20 economic meeting of heads of state in Washington, D.C., President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev pledged support for greater international...

Lee warns ASEAN against backsliding to protectionism.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the annual meeting of ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Lee said the negotiations came at a key moment after the breakdown last month of global trade talks in Geneva. While a strong rules-based global trading regime remained...

Radical change or more of the same? Public attitudes towards social citizenship in New Zealand since neoliberal reform.
Introduction Neoliberal reforms are often assumed to have significantly affected public opinion towards the social rights of citizenship, as reflected in attitudes towards economic protectionism and the welfare state. This is because the transformation of Keynesian-welfarist institutions during the 1980s and 1990s is said to have fundamentally...