Direct buying enables companies to do a better job of product development with key vendors .

Farmers bartered soybean for garments.

The authorities are willing to permit a run-down in the country's international reserves over the next few years as a means of accelerating the introduction of foreign high technology.

The Chinese government decided to slash its import tariff by 20 percent.

Speculators lost handsomely from the crude oil price fluctuation of the 2010s.

Aggregate statistics for 1991 were influenced by the sharp decline in output in Central and Eastern Europe,as well as by the adverse effects of the Gulf crisis on several economies in the Middle East.

South Korea needs only some degree of sweat and of technological sophistication

Officials say that this trade policy overhaul will help the economy.

They demanded the same wage and treatment.There must be no discrimination .

Against this deteriorating global background,the improvement in economic performance in a few developing regions in 1991 was especially noteworthy.