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The Human Resources Development Dimension of the Asian Financial Crisis: Towards the Definition of an APEC Response, 1998

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Published Date December 1998
Type of Publication Proceedings
Publication Under SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE), Human Resources Development Working Group (HRDWG)
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Description

This report summarizes an important dimension of the work to date of the APEC Task Force on the Human Resource and Social Impacts of the Asian Financial Crisis. It is based on a summary paper prepared by Nigel Haworth, Professor of International Business at the University of Auckland, based on the discussion of a meeting of experts held in Jakarta in April 1998.

  • Contents Page
  • Background
  • The Human Dimension of the Asian Financial Crisis
  • Four Case Studies: Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand
  • The Response to the Crisis of the APEC Working Group on Human Resources Development
  • Existing APEC HRD Priorities and the Short Term
  • The Issue of Perspective
  • A Broader Agenda: APEC, TILF and ECOTECH
  • The Jakarta Experts' Meeting: Operational Issues
  • Conclusions: The Debate at the Chinese Taipei Symposium
  • June 1998 Preliminary Recommendations of the Task Force
  • Next Steps
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography