Vietnam has been following China's path closely and very successfully for the last two decades, since the adoption of "Doi moi" in 1986. Over those last two decades, economic growth rates in both countries have been the highest worldwide (with GDP growing by 8 per cent and 10 per cent per year,...

Clothing and textile exports are increasingly dominated by developing countries. In 1974, developed countries implemented quotas on developing countries exports within the MFA, which resulted in a distorted geographical allocation of production and exports. Regional preferential agreements also...

<alinea/> Turkey was not an industrial newcomer when it shifted to an export oriented strategy in 1980 that lead to a Custom Union in 1995. While the industrial sector did resist to the European competition, it suffered from the macro economics disequilibria that led to the 2001 crisis. The economy has...