International Economics category: 4483 books
Prevention and Crisis Management
Lessons for Asia from the 2008 Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Four years have passed since the onset of the 2008 global crisis, and although some believe that there may be a second down draft soon, attention has shifted from crisis narration to assessing lessons essential for preventing or managing recurrences. The exercise is worthy, but there is always the...
Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid
Value for Money and Aid for Trade
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid: Value for Money and Aid for Tradeprovides updated information on how to improve foreign aid programs, exploring the concept and practice of impact assessment within the sometimes-unproblematic approaches advocated in current literature of value for money and aid...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Global trends in policy and technology related fields are rapidly reshaping the port industry worldwide. International in scope, this volume provides multidisciplinary insights into the role port cities adopt in dealing with global supply chains. Throughout the book, concepts of strategic management,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book is th e result of a collaborative research project involving the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba (Canada) and the Centre for Defence Economics at the University of York in England . Perhaps not surprisingly, given its transatlantic origins, its lineage...
Transnational Cooperation
An Issue-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Transnational Cooperation: An Issue-Based Approach presents an analysis of transnational cooperation or collective action that stresses basic concepts and intuition. Throughout the book, authors Clint Peinhardt and Todd Sandler identify factors that facilitate and/or inhibit such cooperation. The...
Ten Innovations
An international study on technological development and the use of qualified scientists and engineers in ten industries
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Originally published in 1972, this book examines ten major areas of innovation with a view to seeing what factors have contributed to success or failure. In each field 3 or 4 companies have been compared - from Britain, the USA and Europe. The book analyses and studies the results and discusses conclusions...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This book compiles the presentations and discussions from the international symposium “Beyond Global Capitalism” that was held with the contributions of Emmanuel Todd, Ha-Joon Chang, and other scholars in Kyoto, Japan, in 2013. The book is intended make the reader aware that global capitalism,...
by Loretta Napoleoni
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in...
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Multi-level Government
The Case of EU Cohesion Policy and of US Federal Investment Policies
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This book provides an original framework to assess public investment policies co-financed by Union (Federal) governments. This framework is applied to two important case studies: the EU Cohesion Policy and the US Federal Investment Policies.
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Multi-Level Government sheds...
Maritime Economics
A Macroeconomic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
This book analyses shipping markets and their interdependence. This ground-breaking text develops a new macroeconomic approach to maritime economics and provides the reader with a more comprehensive understanding of the way modern shipping markets function.
by Guido Candela, Paolo Figini
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The book aims at providing an overview of the main economic issues related to tourism activities. While tourism is an important sector, contributing to more than 10% of the European Union’s GDP, research and teaching at the university level has only recently grown to a considerable level, and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Port Management brings together a collection of seminal papers from Palgrave’s journal Maritime Economics and Logistics. It is a dynamic volume, containing contributions from leading authors with different disciplinary backgrounds, representing a vast regional diversity. The volume provides authoritative...
by Henry J. Bruton
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
This book takes on one of the great questions of the day: Why are some countries enormously rich and others so heartbreakingly poor?
Henry J. Bruton organizes the discussion around three basic ideas. The first is that well-being reflects not only the availability and distribution of goods and...
The Political Economy of Employment Relations
Alternative theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization. This change has become the objective of inquiry from different perspectives, such as development studies, labour economics or industrial relations, focusing on different units of analysis.
The...