Witness to transformation : refugee insights into North Korea / Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Washington, DC : Peterson Institute For International Economics, 2011وصف:xvii, 182 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
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- 9780881324389 (pbk)
- 0881324388 (pbk)
- HC470.2 H34 2011
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | HC470.2 H34 2011 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011312486 |
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HC470.T4 K542 1997 Imitation to innovation : the dynamics of Korea's technological learning | HC470.T4 K67 1996 Korea at the turning point : innovation-based strategies for development | HC470.2 C37 2006 North Korean reform : politics, economics and security / | HC470.2 H34 2011 Witness to transformation : refugee insights into North Korea / | HC470.2 N65 2004 Korea after Kim Jong-Il / | HC470.2 .N67 2001 North Korea in transition : prospects for economic and social reform / | HC470.2 .N67 2001 North Korea in transition : prospects for economic and social reform / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Perils of refugee life -- Marketization, reform, and retrenchment -- The penal system and criminalization of economic activity -- Political attitudes and nascent dissent -- Conclusion.
Despite its nuclear capability, in certain respects North Korea resembles a failed state sitting uneasily atop a shifting internal foundation. This instability is due in part to devastating famine of the 1990s and the state's inability to fulfill the economic obligations that it had assumed, forcing institutions, enterprises, and households to cope with ensuing challenges of maintaining stability with limited cooperation between the Korean government and the international community. The ineffective response to the humanitarian crisis triggered by the famine resulted in outflow of tens of thousands of refugees whose narratives are largely overlooked in evaluating the efficacy of the humanitarian aid program. The authors of this book use extensive surveys with refugees who now reside in China or South Korea to provide extraordinary insight into changing pathways to power, wealth, and status within North Korea. These refugee testimonies provide an invaluable interpretation of the regime, its motivations, and its capabilities and assess the situation on the ground with the rise of inequality, corruption, and disaffection in the decade since the famine. Through these surveys, preeminent North Korean experts Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland carefully document the country's transition from a centrally planned economy to a highly distorted market economy, characterized by endemic corruption and widening inequality. The authors chart refugees' reactions to current conditions and consider the disparity between the perceived and real benefit of the international humanitarian aid program experienced by this displaced population. Finally, the book examines these refugees' future prospects for integration into a new society--Publisher's description.