He has also boasted of Malaysia's attractiveness to direct investors, even as he has excoriated speculators and western economic imperialism.

ECONOMIST: Malaysia

There is also an attempt to revitalise and broaden the forum's agenda, so debates will not only be held on what the forum sees as economic imperialism of the rich countries.

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He conceived of the concept of Islamic economics and a concept under which Muslims would do business with each other in an Islamic way to insulate themselves from the economic imperialism, as he called it, of the Western Civilization at the time.

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Mr. JULIO SALAZAR (Secretary General, Coca Growers' Federation): (Through translator) Before, all of our uprisings were against the government, the economic model, against imperialism.

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