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François Bertrand

The Korea Herald : The Nation's No.1 English Newspaper - 0 views

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COREE DU SUD new growth engine développement durable

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  • the government announced its "Green New Deal" project on Jan. 6.
  • The "Green New Deal" is an ambitious project designed to create 960,000 jobs by investing 50 trillion won ($36.4 billion) over the next four years
  • The Korean government has taken the position that this crisis is an opportunity to advance eco-friendly economics; by pumping investment into "green technologies," we will be both helping the economy and setting the stage for future economic growth.
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  • The plan may be divided into four major categories.
  • The first concerns projects to establish an energy-efficient
  • The second category includes projects to increase the general standard of healthy living
  • spanning 3,114 kilometers will be gradually established
  • rivers throughout the country will be restored
  • The third category consists of preventative measures such as reducing carbon emissions and securing fresh-water resources.
  • The last category concerns investment projects for future industries
  • land, energy, water resources and buildings
  • The Green New Deal Policy will also contribute to stimulating the regional economy.
  • In line with the proposal of new growth engines unveiled on Jan. 13, the government will make efforts to strengthen the strategy of increasing green technology and strive to achieve practical and balanced results through the Green New Deal policy.
François Bertrand

The Economist : The chaebol have mostly learnt their lesson, but some lapses continue - 0 views

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chaebol COREE DU SUD

shared by François Bertrand on 28 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Many of the changes have gone deep. After the crisis, foreign investors were welcomed, and now around half of the shares of Samsung Electronics and LGE are foreign-owned.
  • In practice the new rules were hardly draconian.
  • Moreover, no South Korean government appears able to resist the temptation to use the chaebol for policy ends.
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  • Some of the biggest ones were exempted from the ceilings on outside shareholdings because they were giving support to Roh Moo-hyun’s favourite initiatives, such as investing in sectors designated as “growth engines”, promising to help build the “enterprise cities” that Mr Roh hoped would spread growth to the regions, or even attempting to do business with North Korea.
  • Still behaving badly
  • To this day chaebol families are more admired for their economic contribution than reviled for their criminal propensities, which are often viewed as the foibles of a ruling aristocracy. The chaebol families are the closest thing South Koreans have to royalty.
Fred L

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  • Policy Brief 2008/03 Europe's R&D: Missing the Wrong Targets? This Policy Brief address two challenges: First, Europe is failing to live up to the target set in the Lisbon agenda to increase public and private-funded investment in R&D to 3 percent of GDP. Can Europe catch up? Second, since countries have different industrial specialisations, do targets for business funded R&D investment make any economic sense? [download the report] THE AUTHOR Bruno van Pottelsberghe [meet Bruno] POLICY BRIEFS A Tail of Two Countries[read it] Europe's R&D: Missing the Wrong Targets?[read it] Is Structural Spending on Solid Foundations?[read it] Financing Europe's Fast Movers[read it] Why Europe is not Carbon Competitive[read it] Why Reform Europe's Universities?[read it] Is Europe Ready for a Major Banking Crisis?[read it] Global Imbalances: Time for Action[read it] A Better Globalisation Fund[read it] Global Governance: An Agenda for Europe[read it] A Primer on Innovation and Growth[read it] Single Market Trails Home Bias[read it] Farewell National Champions[read it] Welcome to Europe[read it] Last Exit to Lisbon[read it] The Euro: Only for the Agile[read it] Global Current Account Imbalances: How to Manage the Risk for Europe[read it] Globalisation and the Reform of European Social Models[read it] Bruegel Rue de la Charité 33 B-1210 Brussels Belgium +32 2 227 4210 info@bruegel.org
  • Fred L on 20 Jun 08
     
    Document cité par Antoine MASSON MESR 19/6/8 Diagnostic intéressant et synthétique de la stratégie de Lisbonne
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