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Azerbaijan State Economic University: a new member of the UNCTAD Virtual Institute

The Azerbaijan State Economic University (ASEU) has now joined the UNCTAD Virtual Institute (Vi), bringing the number of core members and countries represented in the Vi to thirty-three. ASEU has become the first Vi member of 2011 and joins Belarus, Russia and Ukraine as the fourth transition-country core member. The university’s application was presented under the auspices of the Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan in Geneva. The Vi works with a global network of universities, mainly in developing countries, to…

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China and the Irish: Different Stories, Similar Dreams

‘There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! For when he wakes he will move the world’, attributed to Napoleon about China. Chinese civilization stretches back until at least the third millennium BC, the country being ruled by a series of dynasties until the Qing, or Manchu, dynasty was overthrown in 1911. China was proclaimed a republic the following year. After the Second World War the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek was overthrown by the communists under Mao Zedong,…

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