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  • 1 Hong Kong

    s.
    1 Hong Kong.
    2 Hong Kong, República Popular de China, Hong Kong, capital de Hong Kong.

    Nuevo Diccionario Inglés-Español > Hong Kong

  • 2 Hong Kong

    сущ.
    общ. Гонконг (специальный административный район Китайской Народной Республики; столица — Виктория; государственные языки английский и кантонский диалект китайского языка; национальная валюта — гонконгский доллар)
    See:

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > Hong Kong

  • 3 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China

  • 4 control over Hong-Kong reverted to mainland China

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > control over Hong-Kong reverted to mainland China

  • 5 control over Hong-Kong reverted to mainland China

    Politics english-russian dictionary > control over Hong-Kong reverted to mainland China

  • 6 China

    сущ.
    общ. Китай, Китайская Народная Республика, КНР (республика; столица — Пекин; государственный язык китайский; национальная валюта — юань женьминьби)
    Syn:
    See:

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > China

  • 7 Chinese Economic Area

    сокр. CEA межд. эк. Китайская экономическая зона (неофициальное наименование зоны экономической интеграции Южного Китая, Гонконга и Тайваня)
    See:

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > Chinese Economic Area

  • 8 Pacific Rim

    общ. Тихоокеанское кольцо (группа стран, выходящих к Тихому океану; термин часто трактуют более широко и используют как синоним с понятием "страны Тихоокеанского бассейна", но обычно к Тихоокеанскому кольцу относят только прибрежные страны, а к Тихоокеанскому бассейну еще и ряд стран, не имеющих выхода к морю; состав Тихоокеанского кольца разные исследователи определяют по-разному, но обычно к Тихоокеанскому кольцу относят Австралию, Бруней, Китай, Гонконг, Индонезию, Японию, Северную и Южную Корею, Малайзию, Новую Зеландию, Папуа – Новую Гвинею, Филиппины, Сингапур, Тайвань, западную территорию Канады и США, Камбоджу, Лаос, восточную часть России, Таиланд, Вьетнам и ряд других стран)
    See:

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > Pacific Rim

  • 9 make up about half

    Общая лексика: составлять около половины (Immigrants from China, Hong Kong, and South Korea make up about half the total of all newcomers who arrive in the province as skilled workers.)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > make up about half

  • 10 Macau

       Portuguese colonial territory in south China. Portugal's last colony, in effect, and by agreement turned over to the People's Republic of China in 1999. Since Portuguese traders first settled in Macau in 1557, this tiny territory of 11 square kilometers (7 square miles) has been a Portuguese colony headed by a Portuguese administration. Long a dependency of the Viceroyalty of Goa, Portuguese India, Macau's prosperity depended on the vicissitudes of diplomatic and trade relations between China and the West. For nearly three centuries (ca. 1557-1842), Macau was the only Western entrepót-outpost-enclave-colony on the China coast. Even after Japan expelled Western traders in the 17th century, Macau had a key role as the link between China and the West. This role changed after Great Britain seized neighboring Hong Kong (1842) as a colony. Thereafter, Macau fell into the shadow of a booming Hong Kong.
       While it was a remote dependency of Portugal in the Far East, Macau has long played a multiplicity of roles: China's window on the West, preempted in the 1840s by Hong Kong; sanctuary and refuge for various waves of refugees from China or Hong Kong; because of its peculiar international status and location, a center of vice (gambling, smuggling, prostitution, and drug traffic); and a meeting place and exchange point for the Chinese and Portuguese civilizations.
       Following the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Lisbon offered to return Macau to mainland China, but the offer was refused, and negotiations between China and Portugal ensued. In the 1980s, China and Portugal negotiated a settlement whereby Portuguese sovereignty would continue until December 1999; "a Chinese territory under Portuguese administration" was the formula's general description. Chinese businessmen controlled Macau's economy, including its lucrative gambling and tourist industries, while Portugal provided nominal law and order. The settlement included a pledge by China that protection for the use of Portuguese language and the maintenance of democratic liberties would be continued for at least 50 years. In late December 1999, the last Portuguese governor-general hauled down the flag of Portugal, and the People's Republic of China assumed sovereignty over Macau. In effect, Portugal's formal overseas empire ceased with this historic change. During colonial times, Macau was known for its gambling casinos. Since its return to China, gambling has become its biggest industry and, in 2006, Macau overtook Las Vegas in gaming revenue.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Macau

  • 11 Kao, Charles Kuen

    [br]
    b. 4 November 1933 Shanghai, China
    [br]
    Chinese electrical engineer whose work on optical fibres did much to make optical communications a practical reality.
    [br]
    After the Second World War, Kao moved with his family to Hong Kong, where he went to St Joseph's College. To further his education he then moved to England, taking his "A" Levels at Woolwich Polytechnic. In 1957 he gained a BSc in electrical engineering and then joined Standard Telephones and Cables Laboratory (STL) at Harlow. Following the discovery by others in 1960 of the semiconductor laser, from 1963 Kao worked on the problems of optical communications, in particular that of achieving attenuation in optical cables low enough to make this potentially very high channel capacity form of communication a practical proposition; this problem was solved by suitable cladding of the fibres. In the process he obtained his PhD from University College, London, in 1965. From 1970 until 1974, whilst on leave from STL, he was Professor of Electronics and Department Chairman at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, then in 1982–7 he was Chief Scientist and Director of Engineering with the parent company ITT in the USA. Since 1988 he has been Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong University.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Medal 1977. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Morris N.Liebmann Memorial Prize 1978; L.M.Ericsson Prize 1979. Institution of Electrical Engineers A.G.Bell Medal 1985; Faraday Medal 1989. American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials 1989.
    Bibliography
    1966, with G.A.Hockham, "Dielectric fibre surface waveguides for optical frequencies", Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 113:1,151 (describes the major step in optical-fibre development).
    1982, Optical Fibre Systems. Technology, Design \& Application, New York: McGraw- Hill.
    1988, Optical Fibre, London: Peter Peregrinus.
    Further Reading
    W.B.Jones, 1988, Introduction to Optical Fibre Communications: R\&W Holt.
    KF

    Biographical history of technology > Kao, Charles Kuen

  • 12 snakehead

    n. schildpadbloem, overblijvende plant uit Noord-Amerika met witte bloemen in de vorm van kop van schildpad en bij stromend water groeiend (Botanie); lange tropische vis met grote kop die in staat is atmosferische zuurstof in te ademen; (Slang) gebruikt in Hong Kong); illegale smokkelaar van illegale emigranten van China naar Hong Kong

    English-Dutch dictionary > snakehead

  • 13 manage

    •• manage, management

    •• Manage 1. to have under effective control. 2. to be the manager (of a business, etc.) 3. to succeed in doing or producing something, to be able to cope. 4. to contrive to persuade (a person) to do what one wants (Oxford American Dictionary).
    •• Один из «вечных спутников» англо-русского переводчика – слово, казалось бы, понятное, но доставляющее массу хлопот. Хотя и у глагола, и у существительного есть несколько простых, сразу приходящих в голову русских переводов – управлять, руководить, справляться, соответственно – управление, руководство, дирекция и т.п., можно привести множество примеров, когда эти русские слова не способны выручить переводчика. Вот несколько предложений из текущей периодики:
    •• 1. [British companies] undertook to phase out the use and sale of wood and wood products that did not come from well-managed forests (International Herald Tribune);
    •• 2. They may provide a model for better management of many other commercially exploited wild species, such as fish;
    •• 3. The political process for managing more dispersed power is very ad hoc [ in China] (World Link);
    •• 4. It was a sign of maturity and skillful diplomatic management of nationalism that both Japan and China kept the lid on the process (World Link);
    •• 5. China’s behavior regarding Hong Kong... is a guide to how China will manage domestic change (World Link).
    •• Примеров, когда слова manage, management не так просто перевести «с ходу», очень много. Иногда, «чтобы не мучиться», договариваются об условном переводе, который превращается в термин (а термин – всегда своего рода условное обозначение, понимание которого зависит от полноты знания предмета). Так появилось управление рыбными запасами ( management of fish stocks). Приходилось встречать и такой перевод словосочетания crisis management управление кризисом (иногда регулирование кризиса). И все же пока многие такие переводы не приобрели терминологического характера, а если это и произойдет, то понимание их будет доступно главным образом специалистам. Не слишком большую помощь оказывают и двуязычные словари. Как часто бывает, предлагаемые переводы неплохи в конкретном случае, но мало что дают в других контекстах, а их у таких «многовалентных» слов может быть несчетное количество.
    •• Рекомендую заглянуть в словари синонимов английского языка. Их полезно иметь под рукой не только переводчику на английский, пытающемуся поймать ускользающее слово, но и при переводе с английского, когда другие средства (включая крепкие, например, кофе) не помогают. Неплохой советчик – словарь Родейла (The Synonym Finder by J.I. Rodale). На слово manage он дает пять значений и в общей сложности 61 синоним! Не буду лишать читателя удовольствия самому достать этот словарь (это может оказаться нелегко) и прочитать эту словарную статью. (Кстати, не менее интересна и статья management.) Приведу лишь некоторые синонимы, помогающие «ощутить» значение этого слова и найти удачный перевод: arrange; direct, order; regulate, administer, control; influence; mastermind; operate, handle, manipulate; cope, function; conduct. Последние синонимы особенно интересны. Действительно, слова manage, management часто подразумевают определенные действия или поведение в каких-то конкретных условиях: crisis management действия в условиях кризиса. Нередко в переводе на русский выручают такие слова, как регулирование (но не урегулирование!), контроль, система мер (the management of contagious disease – система мер по борьбе с инфекционными заболеваниями; managed health care (амер.) – регулирование в области здравоохранения или «организованная медицина»). В этом же диапазоне значений находится слово manageable, перевод которого не так труден: The situation is manageable. – Ситуация под контролем, т.е. относительно нормальная, с ситуацией можно справиться.
    •• Теперь вернемся к нашим примерам, для экономии места предлагая только перевод интересующего нас фрагмента текста: 1. ...рационально используемые леса. 2. ...более разумная коммерческая эксплуатация (вариант: более умелое регулирование коммерческой эксплуатации) других видов флоры и фауны... 3. Политическая система не отражает в полной мере децентрализацию власти. 4. ...умелая дипломатическая реакция на проблемы, которые ставит национализм. 5. ...даст представление о том, как Китай будет вести себя в условиях перемен внутри страны.
    •• Еще два интересных примера (из статьи бывшего посла Великобритании в СССР Р.Брейтвейта в журнале Profile): Until [Kozyrev] was replaced by Primakov, there was little serious attempt to manage the disagreement between Russia and [NATO]. В переводе можно было бы прибегнуть к словам регулировать или отрегулировать, но, на мой взгляд, они будут не совсем точны. Пожалуй, лучше здесь конкретизация: ...не было сделано попытки вступить в серьезный диалог по разногласиям между Россией и НАТО. [This] is an odd way to manage the choices that Europe faces. – Это странный подход к альтернативам, с которыми сталкивается Европа.

    English-Russian nonsystematic dictionary > manage

  • 14 management

    •• manage, management

    •• Manage 1. to have under effective control. 2. to be the manager (of a business, etc.) 3. to succeed in doing or producing something, to be able to cope. 4. to contrive to persuade (a person) to do what one wants (Oxford American Dictionary).
    •• Один из «вечных спутников» англо-русского переводчика – слово, казалось бы, понятное, но доставляющее массу хлопот. Хотя и у глагола, и у существительного есть несколько простых, сразу приходящих в голову русских переводов – управлять, руководить, справляться, соответственно – управление, руководство, дирекция и т.п., можно привести множество примеров, когда эти русские слова не способны выручить переводчика. Вот несколько предложений из текущей периодики:
    •• 1. [British companies] undertook to phase out the use and sale of wood and wood products that did not come from well-managed forests (International Herald Tribune);
    •• 2. They may provide a model for better management of many other commercially exploited wild species, such as fish;
    •• 3. The political process for managing more dispersed power is very ad hoc [ in China] (World Link);
    •• 4. It was a sign of maturity and skillful diplomatic management of nationalism that both Japan and China kept the lid on the process (World Link);
    •• 5. China’s behavior regarding Hong Kong... is a guide to how China will manage domestic change (World Link).
    •• Примеров, когда слова manage, management не так просто перевести «с ходу», очень много. Иногда, «чтобы не мучиться», договариваются об условном переводе, который превращается в термин (а термин – всегда своего рода условное обозначение, понимание которого зависит от полноты знания предмета). Так появилось управление рыбными запасами ( management of fish stocks). Приходилось встречать и такой перевод словосочетания crisis management управление кризисом (иногда регулирование кризиса). И все же пока многие такие переводы не приобрели терминологического характера, а если это и произойдет, то понимание их будет доступно главным образом специалистам. Не слишком большую помощь оказывают и двуязычные словари. Как часто бывает, предлагаемые переводы неплохи в конкретном случае, но мало что дают в других контекстах, а их у таких «многовалентных» слов может быть несчетное количество.
    •• Рекомендую заглянуть в словари синонимов английского языка. Их полезно иметь под рукой не только переводчику на английский, пытающемуся поймать ускользающее слово, но и при переводе с английского, когда другие средства (включая крепкие, например, кофе) не помогают. Неплохой советчик – словарь Родейла (The Synonym Finder by J.I. Rodale). На слово manage он дает пять значений и в общей сложности 61 синоним! Не буду лишать читателя удовольствия самому достать этот словарь (это может оказаться нелегко) и прочитать эту словарную статью. (Кстати, не менее интересна и статья management.) Приведу лишь некоторые синонимы, помогающие «ощутить» значение этого слова и найти удачный перевод: arrange; direct, order; regulate, administer, control; influence; mastermind; operate, handle, manipulate; cope, function; conduct. Последние синонимы особенно интересны. Действительно, слова manage, management часто подразумевают определенные действия или поведение в каких-то конкретных условиях: crisis management действия в условиях кризиса. Нередко в переводе на русский выручают такие слова, как регулирование (но не урегулирование!), контроль, система мер (the management of contagious disease – система мер по борьбе с инфекционными заболеваниями; managed health care (амер.) – регулирование в области здравоохранения или «организованная медицина»). В этом же диапазоне значений находится слово manageable, перевод которого не так труден: The situation is manageable. – Ситуация под контролем, т.е. относительно нормальная, с ситуацией можно справиться.
    •• Теперь вернемся к нашим примерам, для экономии места предлагая только перевод интересующего нас фрагмента текста: 1. ...рационально используемые леса. 2. ...более разумная коммерческая эксплуатация (вариант: более умелое регулирование коммерческой эксплуатации) других видов флоры и фауны... 3. Политическая система не отражает в полной мере децентрализацию власти. 4. ...умелая дипломатическая реакция на проблемы, которые ставит национализм. 5. ...даст представление о том, как Китай будет вести себя в условиях перемен внутри страны.
    •• Еще два интересных примера (из статьи бывшего посла Великобритании в СССР Р.Брейтвейта в журнале Profile): Until [Kozyrev] was replaced by Primakov, there was little serious attempt to manage the disagreement between Russia and [NATO]. В переводе можно было бы прибегнуть к словам регулировать или отрегулировать, но, на мой взгляд, они будут не совсем точны. Пожалуй, лучше здесь конкретизация: ...не было сделано попытки вступить в серьезный диалог по разногласиям между Россией и НАТО. [This] is an odd way to manage the choices that Europe faces. – Это странный подход к альтернативам, с которыми сталкивается Европа.

    English-Russian nonsystematic dictionary > management

  • 15 manage

    управлять, руководить, справляться (впрочем, часто перевод зависит от контекста)

    1. (British companies) undertook to phase out the use and sale of wood and wood products that did not come from well-managed forests (International Herald Tribune). —...рационально используемые леса

    2. The political process for managing more dispersed power is very ad hoc (in China) (World Link). — Политическая система не отражает в полной мере децентрализацию власти.

    3. China's behavior regarding Hong Kong... is a guide to how China will manage domestic change (World Link). —...даст представление о том, как Китай будет вести себя в условиях перемен внутри страны

    4. Until [Kozyrev] was replaced by Primakov, there was little serious attempt to manage the disagreement between Russia and [NATO]. —...не было сделано попытки вступить в серьезный диалог по разногласиям между Россией и НАТО.

    5. (This) is an odd way to manage the choices that Europe faces. — Это странный подход к альтернативам, с которыми сталкивается Европа.

    Syn:

    The English annotation is below. (English-Russian) > manage

  • 16 FILTH

    Общая лексика: Failed In London, Try Hong-Ko (Before handover of Hong-Kong by the UK to China in 1999, this acronym sardonically reflected the treatment by certain multi-national emplayers of under-performing or out-of-favour staff.)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > FILTH

  • 17 filth

    Общая лексика: Failed In London, Try Hong-Ko (Before handover of Hong-Kong by the UK to China in 1999, this acronym sardonically reflected the treatment by certain multi-national emplayers of under-performing or out-of-favour staff.)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > filth

  • 18 central bank

    эк. центральный банк (государственный банк, который реализует денежно-кредитную и валютную политику государства, управляет официальными валютными резервами, осуществляет денежную эмиссию, является банкиром правительства и кредитором последней инстанции для других финансовых институтов; также название центрального органа денежно-валютного регулирования для группы стран, использующих общую валюту и координирующих свою денежно-кредитную политику)
    See:
    currency policy, monetary policy, official reserves, open market operations, currency intervention, lender of last resort, bankers' bank, bank of issue, bank of government, Federal Reserve System, European Central Bank, national central bank, European System of Central Banks, Bahrain Monetary Agency, Bangladesh Bank, Bank Al-Maghrib, Bank of Albania, Bank of Algeria, Bank of Botswana, Bank of Canada, Bank of England, Bank of Estonia, Bank of Finland, Bank of Ghana, Bank of Greece, Bank of Guatemala, Bank of Indonesia, Bank of Israel, Bank of Italy, Bank of Jamaica, Bank of Japan, Bank of Korea, Bank of Latvia, Bank of Lebanon, Bank of Lithuania, Bank of Mauritius, Bank of Mexico, Bank of Mongolia, Bank of Mozambique, Bank of Namibia, Bank of Papua New Guinea, Bank of Portugal, Bank of Russia, Bank of Sierra Leone, Bank of Slovenia, Bank of Spain, Bank of Sudan, Bank of Tanzania, Bank of Thailand, Bank of the Netherlands Antilles, Bank of the Republic of Colombia, Bank of the Republic of Haiti, Bank of Uganda, Bank of Zambia, Banque de France, Bermuda Monetary Authority, Bulgarian National Bank, Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, Central Bank of Argentina, Central Bank of Armenia, Central Bank of Aruba, Central Bank of Barbados, Central Bank of Belize, Central Bank of Bolivia, Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Central Bank of Brazil, Central Bank of Central African States, Central Bank of Chile, Central Bank of China, Central Bank of Costa Rica, Central Bank of Cuba, Central Bank of Cyprus, Central Bank of Ecuador, Central Bank of Egypt, Central Bank of Honduras, Central Bank of Iceland, Central Bank of Iran, Central Bank of Ireland, Central Bank of Jordan, Central Bank of Kenya, Central Bank of Kuwait, Central Bank of Lesotho, Central Bank of Luxembourg, Central Bank of Madagascar, Central Bank of Malaysia, Central Bank of Malta, Central Bank of Montenegro, Central Bank of Nicaragua, Central Bank of Nigeria, Central Bank of Oman, Central Bank of Paraguay, Central Bank of Samoa, Central Bank of Seychelles, Central Bank of Solomon Islands, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Central Bank of Suriname, Central Bank of Swaziland, Central Bank of the Bahamas, Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Central Bank of the Philippines, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, Central Bank of Tunisia, Central Bank of Uruguay, Central Bank of Venezuela, Central Bank of West African States, Central Bank of Yemen, Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador, Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Croatian National Bank, Czech National Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Monetary Authority of Macau, Monetary Authority of Singapore, National Bank of Azerbaijan, National Bank of Belgium, National Bank of Denmark, National Bank of Ethiopia, National Bank of Georgia, National Bank of Hungary, National Bank of Kazakhstan, National Bank of Moldova, National Bank of Poland, National Bank of Romania, National Bank of Rwanda, National Bank of Serbia, National Bank of Slovakia, National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic, National Bank of the Republic of Belarus, National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia, National Bank of Ukraine, National Reserve Bank of Tonga, Nepal Rastra Bank, Netherlands Bank, Norges Bank, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, People's Bank of China, Qatar Central Bank, Reserve Bank of Australia, Reserve Bank of Fiji, Reserve Bank of India, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan, Saudi Arabia Monetary Agency, South African Reserve Bank, State Bank of Pakistan, State Bank of Vietnam, Sveriges Riksbank, Swiss National Bank, jawbone

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    центральный банк: 1) государственный банк, который реализует валютную и денежно-кредитную политику государства, осуществляет денежную эмиссию и управляет официальными валютными резервами, является банкиром правительства и всех других кредитных институтов; 2) коммерческий банк, который обслуживает группу небольших банков (кооперативных, сберегательных).
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    . первичная валютная власть страны; в США Федеральная Резервная Система в США; обычно, несет ответственность за выдачу валюты, управление валютной политикой и банковской системой страны; . Глоссарий финансовых и биржевых терминов .
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    Банки/Банковские операции
    государственное кредитно-финансовое учреждение, обладающее правом выпуска банкнот, регулирования денежного обращения, кредита и валютного курса, хранения золотовалютных резервов
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    государственный орган регулирования экономики; банк, наделенный правом монопольного выпуска банкнот, регулирования денежного обращения, кредита и валютного курса, хранения официальных золотовалютных резервов

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > central bank

  • 19 Empire, Portuguese overseas

    (1415-1975)
       Portugal was the first Western European state to establish an early modern overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean and perhaps the last colonial power to decolonize. A vast subject of complexity that is full of myth as well as debatable theories, the history of the Portuguese overseas empire involves the story of more than one empire, the question of imperial motives, the nature of Portuguese rule, and the results and consequences of empire, including the impact on subject peoples as well as on the mother country and its society, Here, only the briefest account of a few such issues can be attempted.
       There were various empires or phases of empire after the capture of the Moroccan city of Ceuta in 1415. There were at least three Portuguese empires in history: the First empire (1415-1580), the Second empire (1580-1640 and 1640-1822), and the Third empire (1822-1975).
       With regard to the second empire, the so-called Phillipine period (1580-1640), when Portugal's empire was under Spanish domination, could almost be counted as a separate era. During that period, Portugal lost important parts of its Asian holdings to England and also sections of its colonies of Brazil, Angola, and West Africa to Holland's conquests. These various empires could be characterized by the geography of where Lisbon invested its greatest efforts and resources to develop territories and ward off enemies.
       The first empire (1415-1580) had two phases. First came the African coastal phase (1415-97), when the Portuguese sought a foothold in various Moroccan cities but then explored the African coast from Morocco to past the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. While colonization and sugar farming were pursued in the Atlantic islands, as well as in the islands in the Gulf of Guinea like São Tomé and Príncipe, for the most part the Portuguese strategy was to avoid commitments to defending or peopling lands on the African continent. Rather, Lisbon sought a seaborne trade empire, in which the Portuguese could profit from exploiting trade and resources (such as gold) along the coasts and continue exploring southward to seek a sea route to Portuguese India. The second phase of the first empire (1498-1580) began with the discovery of the sea route to Asia, thanks to Vasco da Gama's first voyage in 1497-99, and the capture of strong points, ports, and trading posts in order to enforce a trade monopoly between Asia and Europe. This Asian phase produced the greatest revenues of empire Portugal had garnered, yet ended when Spain conquered Portugal and commanded her empire as of 1580.
       Portugal's second overseas empire began with Spanish domination and ran to 1822, when Brazil won her independence from Portugal. This phase was characterized largely by Brazilian dominance of imperial commitment, wealth in minerals and other raw materials from Brazil, and the loss of a significant portion of her African and Asian coastal empire to Holland and Great Britain. A sketch of Portugal's imperial losses either to native rebellions or to imperial rivals like Britain and Holland follows:
       • Morocco (North Africa) (sample only)
       Arzila—Taken in 1471; evacuated in 1550s; lost to Spain in 1580, which returned city to a sultan.
       Ceuta—Taken in 1415; lost to Spain in 1640 (loss confirmed in 1668 treaty with Spain).
       • Tangiers—Taken in 15th century; handed over to England in 1661 as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry to King Charles II.
       • West Africa
       • Fort/Castle of São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (in what is now Ghana)—Taken in 1480s; lost to Holland in 1630s.
       • Middle East
       Socotra-isle—Conquered in 1507; fort abandoned in 1511; used as water resupply stop for India fleet.
       Muscat—Conquered in 1501; lost to Persians in 1650.
       Ormuz—Taken, 1505-15 under Albuquerque; lost to England, which gave it to Persia in the 17th century.
       Aden (entry to Red Sea) — Unsuccessfully attacked by Portugal (1513-30); taken by Turks in 1538.
       • India
       • Ceylon (Sri Lanka)—Taken by 1516; lost to Dutch after 1600.
       • Bombay—Taken in 16th century; given to England in 1661 treaty as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry for Charles II.
       • East Indies
       • Moluccas—Taken by 1520; possession confirmed in 1529 Saragossa treaty with Spain; lost to Dutch after 1600; only East Timor remaining.
       After the restoration of Portuguese independence from Spain in 1640, Portugal proceeded to revive and strengthen the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance, with international aid to fight off further Spanish threats to Portugal and drive the Dutch invaders out of Brazil and Angola. While Portugal lost its foothold in West Africa at Mina to the Dutch, dominion in Angola was consolidated. The most vital part of the imperial economy was a triangular trade: slaves from West Africa and from the coasts of Congo and Angola were shipped to plantations in Brazil; raw materials (sugar, tobacco, gold, diamonds, dyes) were sent to Lisbon; Lisbon shipped Brazil colonists and hardware. Part of Portugal's War of Restoration against Spain (1640-68) and its reclaiming of Brazil and Angola from Dutch intrusions was financed by the New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity after the 1496 Manueline order of expulsion of Jews) who lived in Portugal, Holland and other low countries, France, and Brazil. If the first empire was mainly an African coastal and Asian empire, the second empire was primarily a Brazilian empire.
       Portugal's third overseas empire began upon the traumatic independence of Brazil, the keystone of the Lusitanian enterprise, in 1822. The loss of Brazil greatly weakened Portugal both as a European power and as an imperial state, for the scattered remainder of largely coastal, poor, and uncolonized territories that stretched from the bulge of West Africa to East Timor in the East Indies and Macau in south China were more of a financial liability than an asset. Only two small territories balanced their budgets occasionally or made profits: the cocoa islands of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea and tiny Macau, which lost much of its advantage as an entrepot between the West and the East when the British annexed neighboring Hong Kong in 1842. The others were largely burdens on the treasury. The African colonies were strapped by a chronic economic problem: at a time when the slave trade and then slavery were being abolished under pressures from Britain and other Western powers, the economies of Guinea- Bissau, São Tomé/Príncipe, Angola, and Mozambique were totally dependent on revenues from the slave trade and slavery. During the course of the 19th century, Lisbon began a program to reform colonial administration in a newly rejuvenated African empire, where most of the imperial efforts were expended, by means of replacing the slave trade and slavery, with legitimate economic activities.
       Portugal participated in its own early version of the "Scramble" for Africa's interior during 1850-69, but discovered that the costs of imperial expansion were too high to allow effective occupation of the hinterlands. After 1875, Portugal participated in the international "Scramble for Africa" and consolidated its holdings in west and southern Africa, despite the failure of the contra-costa (to the opposite coast) plan, which sought to link up the interiors of Angola and Mozambique with a corridor in central Africa. Portugal's expansion into what is now Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (eastern section) in 1885-90 was thwarted by its oldest ally, Britain, under pressure from interest groups in South Africa, Scotland, and England. All things considered, Portugal's colonizing resources and energies were overwhelmed by the African empire it possessed after the frontier-marking treaties of 1891-1906. Lisbon could barely administer the massive area of five African colonies, whose total area comprised about 8 percent of the area of the colossal continent. The African territories alone were many times the size of tiny Portugal and, as of 1914, Portugal was the third colonial power in terms of size of area possessed in the world.
       The politics of Portugal's empire were deceptive. Lisbon remained obsessed with the fear that rival colonial powers, especially Germany and Britain, would undermine and then dismantle her African empire. This fear endured well into World War II. In developing and keeping her potentially rich African territories (especially mineral-rich Angola and strategically located Mozambique), however, the race against time was with herself and her subject peoples. Two major problems, both chronic, prevented Portugal from effective colonization (i.e., settling) and development of her African empire: the economic weakness and underdevelopment of the mother country and the fact that the bulk of Portuguese emigration after 1822 went to Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, and France, not to the colonies. These factors made it difficult to consolidate imperial control until it was too late; that is, until local African nationalist movements had organized and taken the field in insurgency wars that began in three of the colonies during the years 1961-64.
       Portugal's belated effort to revitalize control and to develop, in the truest sense of the word, Angola and Mozambique after 1961 had to be set against contemporary events in Europe, Africa, and Asia. While Portugal held on to a backward empire, other European countries like Britain, France, and Belgium were rapidly decolonizing their empires. Portugal's failure or unwillingness to divert the large streams of emigrants to her empire after 1850 remained a constant factor in this question. Prophetic were the words of the 19th-century economist Joaquim Oliveira Martins, who wrote in 1880 that Brazil was a better colony for Portugal than Africa and that the best colony of all would have been Portugal itself. As of the day of the Revolution of 25 April 1974, which sparked the final process of decolonization of the remainder of Portugal's third overseas empire, the results of the colonization program could be seen to be modest compared to the numbers of Portuguese emigrants outside the empire. Moreover, within a year, of some 600,000 Portuguese residing permanently in Angola and Mozambique, all but a few thousand had fled to South Africa or returned to Portugal.
       In 1974 and 1975, most of the Portuguese empire was decolonized or, in the case of East Timor, invaded and annexed by a foreign power before it could consolidate its independence. Only historic Macau, scheduled for transfer to the People's Republic of China in 1999, remained nominally under Portuguese control as a kind of footnote to imperial history. If Portugal now lacked a conventional overseas empire and was occupied with the challenges of integration in the European Union (EU), Lisbon retained another sort of informal dependency that was a new kind of empire: the empire of her scattered overseas Portuguese communities from North America to South America. Their numbers were at least six times greater than that of the last settlers of the third empire.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Empire, Portuguese overseas

  • 20 less developed countries

    сокр. LDCs межд. эк. менее развитые [слаборазвитые\] страны (группа стран, в основном состоящая из стран с низким уровнем производства, низким уровнем национального дохода и низким уровнем жизни; группа очень обширна, и разброс экономических показателей по данной группе значителен; часть стран характеризуется довольно высокими темпами роста экономики и развития технологии (новые индустриальные страны), а часть стран — крайне низкими экономическими показателями (наименее развитые страны); в целом группа довольно близка к группе "развивающиеся страны" по классификации Международного валютного фонда)
    Syn:
    See:
    least developed countries, newly industrializing country, Third World, more developed countries, developed countries, developing countries, Afghanistan, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jersey, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Isle of Man, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Federated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Oman, Palau, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Reunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates, Uganda, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands of the United States, Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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    abbrev.: LDC Less developed countries развивающиеся (менее развитые) страны: государства с низким уровнем национального дохода, высоким темпом роста населения и безработицы, зависимостью от сырьевого экспорта; как правило, имеются в виду страны "третьего мира".

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > less developed countries

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