The economic history of Asia as a whole

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North-South Gap Emerging in the East
By Johanna Son, Inter Press Service Harare, 11 April 1995.
Asian NGOs Issue Food Security Declaration
From PANUPS. 29 November 1995. Re Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) conference in Bangkok, September 1995.
Asian Farmers Struggle Against Transnationals
By Yuli Ismartono and Teena Gill, From Third World Network, 4 February 1996.
Message to the WTO—Hands Off Agriculture!
By Suria Prakash and Jennifer Mourin, 13 November 1998. Food security is emerging as a major issue in the APEC region and in other Asian countries following liberalization of agricultural trade, said participants at Forum on Land, Food Security and Agriculture.
Asian Agriculture on the Edge of Crisis
From EarthVision Reports, 29 April 1999. Growing populations and environmental destruction will soon lead to an agricultural crisis says the Asian Development Bank at its annual meeting.
Illegal Sex Business Adds To National Incomes
By Laxmi Murthy, IPS, 26 July 1999. Where sex business is illegal, men take it over from women and it begins to represent an important contribution to the GNP of those states.
Economist predicts growth will come from Asia’s ‘huge internal market’
From the Far Eastern Economic Review, 4 November 1999. Interview with Joseph Stiglitz, World Bank economist.

The IT sector

Asia Lags in Fixing Millenium Bug, Survey Says
By Lazar Bloch, IPS, 16 August 1998. Many Asian countries are perilously far behind in preparing for the Year 2000 bug. According to Gartner Group, developing nations will suffer the worst from the bug’s consequences.
Uncertainty Colors Asia Telecoms Industry Meeting
By Tony Munroe, Reuters, Saturday 2 December 2000. Telecoms executives and regulators from Asia and elsewhere converge on Hong Kong this week for a massive industry gathering at a time when the sector that once promised limitless opportunity is in a state of shell-shock.