The Philippines was in the 1960s a model of development in Asia and second to Japan,but occupies presently only the 11th position under South-East and East Asian countries in terms of GDP-per capita.The article explor...The Philippines was in the 1960s a model of development in Asia and second to Japan,but occupies presently only the 11th position under South-East and East Asian countries in terms of GDP-per capita.The article explores why this important Asian country with a long colonial past and enormous economic potential still ranks under lower-income countries and has in the last decades let pass by many other Asian countries.In answering this question,the approach of external triggers for accelerated development is being applied.In stark contrast to the success stories of the strongly outward-looking Asian countries like the four Tigers,later of Thailand and Vietnam the Philippines never developed a vision of an open economy connecting pro-actively to the world markets.Trade is hampered by a non-competitive and highly protected national economy.The existing FDI is more oriented to the profitable local markets.Foreign debts were never effectively used and international tourism was never well promoted.Linking these failures to the existing power structures in the country,it seems very much that the backward forces like the big landowners,the local producers and industrialists never wanted and continue not to want to open up the economy to international competition and governments are complacent with these groups.Various indicators demonstrate the long-term decline of the Philippines:Among them the slow growth of the GDP and the continuously high poverty rates.As the alliance of big business and policy holds firm no change in the failing nationalistic economic model can be detected leaving the bleak outlook that the economic decline will continue.展开更多
In recent years,alternating direction method of multipliers(ADMM)and its variants are popular for the extensive use in image processing and statistical learning.A variant of ADMM:symmetric ADMM,which updates the Lagra...In recent years,alternating direction method of multipliers(ADMM)and its variants are popular for the extensive use in image processing and statistical learning.A variant of ADMM:symmetric ADMM,which updates the Lagrange mul-tiplier twice in one iteration,is always faster whenever it converges.In this paper,combined with Nesterov’s accelerating strategy,an accelerated symmetric ADMM is proposed.We prove its O(1/k^(2))convergence rate under strongly convex condition.For the general situation,an accelerated method with a restart rule is proposed.Some preliminary numerical experiments show the efficiency of our algorithms.展开更多
文摘The Philippines was in the 1960s a model of development in Asia and second to Japan,but occupies presently only the 11th position under South-East and East Asian countries in terms of GDP-per capita.The article explores why this important Asian country with a long colonial past and enormous economic potential still ranks under lower-income countries and has in the last decades let pass by many other Asian countries.In answering this question,the approach of external triggers for accelerated development is being applied.In stark contrast to the success stories of the strongly outward-looking Asian countries like the four Tigers,later of Thailand and Vietnam the Philippines never developed a vision of an open economy connecting pro-actively to the world markets.Trade is hampered by a non-competitive and highly protected national economy.The existing FDI is more oriented to the profitable local markets.Foreign debts were never effectively used and international tourism was never well promoted.Linking these failures to the existing power structures in the country,it seems very much that the backward forces like the big landowners,the local producers and industrialists never wanted and continue not to want to open up the economy to international competition and governments are complacent with these groups.Various indicators demonstrate the long-term decline of the Philippines:Among them the slow growth of the GDP and the continuously high poverty rates.As the alliance of big business and policy holds firm no change in the failing nationalistic economic model can be detected leaving the bleak outlook that the economic decline will continue.
基金This research is partly supported by the National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China(Grant No.11671217)Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang(Grant No.2017D01A14)。
文摘In recent years,alternating direction method of multipliers(ADMM)and its variants are popular for the extensive use in image processing and statistical learning.A variant of ADMM:symmetric ADMM,which updates the Lagrange mul-tiplier twice in one iteration,is always faster whenever it converges.In this paper,combined with Nesterov’s accelerating strategy,an accelerated symmetric ADMM is proposed.We prove its O(1/k^(2))convergence rate under strongly convex condition.For the general situation,an accelerated method with a restart rule is proposed.Some preliminary numerical experiments show the efficiency of our algorithms.
