Author (Category): Nicola Bullard

China : the country the West loves to hate

Posted by admin | Jul 12, 2000 | China

By Nicola Bullard When the philosopher Kierkegaard wrote “if you marry, you will regret it and if you fail to marry, you will regret it” he may well have been describing the West’s attitude to China. While the...

‘Americanisation’ of Thai economy

Posted by admin | Mar 5, 1998 | Mekong Region, Thailand, The Commons

by Nicola Bullard, Walden Bello, and Kamal Malhotra printed in The Nation Newspaper, 4 March 1998, Bangkok, ThailandThe decade-long US foreign economic agenda for Asia gained an opening in the financial crisis, and Washington...

Thailand’s Dirty Secret

Posted by admin | Sep 24, 1997 | Thailand, Trade and Investment

by Nicola Bullard* Why is no-one saying the truth? Why is no-one admitting that Thailand’s economic crisis is the predictable consequence of a development model which is deeply flawed, profoundly unfair in its distribution...