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South Korea's industrial development in the last decades has been impressive. Even if several heavy crisis, like the present one, show some weak points of its economic model, it has been very successful. This model is essentially an efficient combination of market mechanisms with State interventionism, but the financial liberalization introduced since the 80s has strongly contributed to make it more fragile. Adapted from the source document.

In this article we will examine to what extent Portuguese economic diplomacy has worked having in mind the national interest and business interests. The analysis will focus on the cases of Galp and Unicer. We will start to enunciate the relevant aspects that connect economic diplomacy and business diplomacy; then we will review the evolution and characteristics of Portuguese economic diplomacy; and finally we will study the Galp and Unicer presence in the Angolan market. The main conclusions may allow a more rigorous definition of the Portuguese economic diplomacy model. Adapted from the source document.

The planning and implementation of legal units of environmental management have been
conflicting, generating social and economic predicaments. These conflicts generate cognitive, emotional and
affective movements, that somehow contribute to learning with the operation. The Environmental Education, as
a mediating process, enables the collective construction of the sustainable development process for the
productive sectors, with an open methodological proposal, whose model is to generate solutions from social
participation. In this sense, it is understood that Environmental Education is a process of educational praxis that
aims at building values, attitudes, concepts, skills, standards, knowledge and shared practices for the constructing
a style of thinking that contributes to environmental citizenship. Trying to understand and contribute with this
social dynamics, have been conducted, from 2001 to 2006, numerous and multiple environmental teaching
actions in the highlands region of Santa Catarina. This movement resulted in the development of an open model
of environmental education which is mediated by the environmental perception of social actors involved,
understanding perception as the integration of biological, psychological and social dimensions. Thus, the
proposition for the Open Model of Environmental Education with the paradigm of transdisciplinary opening
mediated by the environmental perception of social actors involved will result in the collective construction of
solutions to local environmental problems.

É surpreendente a resistência da economia brasileira à crise internacional nos primeiros meses de 2009. A queda da produção e dos investimentos foi intensa, mas não houve crise cambial, nem crise fiscal ou abalos no sistema financeiro. O governo conseguiu adotar medidas anticíclicas, com corte de impostos e redução dos juros, favorecido pela arrecadação fiscal elevada e pelo fortalecimento dos bancos, depois de anos de juros elevados, além de dispor dos bancos públicos e dos fundos públicos, instrumentos poderosos herdados do passado. No lado externo, a entrada de capitais é estimulada pela ampla liquidez gerada pelas políticas de expansão monetária dos Estados Unidos, enquanto as exportações refletem a sustentação da demanda chinesa, com forte aumento da participação de produtos primários e redução das vendas de produtos industrializados. A capacidade de reagir à crise é um grande teste para o modelo brasileiro de abertura e liberalização, da mesma forma que as dificuldades para sustentar as exportações de industrializados e para a recuperação dos investimentos e da atividade produtiva são também desafios consideráveis. ; Reviewing the first months of 2009, it's surprising to see the Brazilian economy resistance over the international crisis. The decline on production and investment were intense, however, there has not been neither a foreign exchange crisis nor fiscal and financial system breakthrough. The government could apply anti-cyclic policies, as tax cuts and interest reduction, helped by the actual large extend of tax collection and banks strength, after years of high interest rates, besides using the public banks and the public funds, valuable legacy instruments. Regarding the external side, the capital inflow is stimulated by the wider liquidity generate by the US recent monetary expansion policy, while the exports are due to China demand maintenance, with significant increase in basic commodities and decrease of manufactured products. The capacity of reacting to the crises is a great test for the Brazilian model of economic opening, in the same way that the difficulties to sustain the industrialized good exports and recovery of investment rates in the manufacturing activities are considerable challenges.

The article suggests that, during the two last decades, the Mexican government has been adopting political & economic measures in tune with the economic integration model for the Americas proposed by the United States of America. Examples of this strategy are the unrestricted entry into North-American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) & the effort to consolidate the projects for a Mesoamerican Biological Corridor & the Puebla-Panama Plan. References. Adapted from the source document.