International Economics category: 4483 books
by Doris C. Ms. Ross, Victor Duarte Lledo, Alex Mr. Segura-Ubiergo
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
This publication highlights Mozambiques remarkably strong growth over the two decades since the end of the civil war in 1992, as well as the major challenges that remain for the country to rise out of poverty and further its economic development. Chapters explore such topics as the role of megaprojects...
by Michael Mr. Keen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2003
This paper, based on the considerable practical experience of the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department, sets out a successful strategy for modernizing customs administration. The essence is to establish transparent and simple rules and procedures, and to foster voluntary compliance by building a system...
The Sweet Spot
How Australia Made Its Own Luck - And Could Now Throw It All Away
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Winner of the 2012 Ashurst Business Literature Prize
This book will change the way you think about your country...
Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free – and the only developed nation to have avoided a recession...
by Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, Craig M. Boise, Anna Manasco Dionne
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Offshore financial centers (OFCs) have a troubled reputation for enabling tax evasion, money laundering, autocratic looting, and even the financing of terrorism-but they play an essential role in the world economy. Fears of criminal activity have prompted many onshore governments to restrict offshore...
Saving Europe
Anatomy of a Dream
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
In this gripping narrative, Carlo Bastasin reconstructs the main political decisions of the euro crisis, unveiling the hidden interests and the secret diplomacy behind the scene. The European dream was both the rejection of war and the creation of a new spirit of peaceful cooperation. Yet confrontation...
China's Silent Army
The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The first book to examine the unprecedented growth of China's economic investment in the developing world, its impact at the local level, and a rare hands-on picture of the role of ordinary Chinese in the juggernaut that is China, Inc.
Beijing-based journalists Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto...
International Competition and Industrial Change
Essays in the History of Mining and Metallurgy 1800-1950
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Trevor Serge Coleridge Mr. Alleyne, Mumtaz Mr. Hussain
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
The reform of energy subsidies is an important but challenging issue for sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. There is a relatively large theoretical and empirical literature on this issue. While this paper relies on that literature, too, it tailors its discussion to SSA countries to respond to the...
by Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Kevin Carey, Ulrich Mr. Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
What is the impact on trade in sub-Saharan Africa of the recent rapid growth in China and other Asian countries, and the associated commodity price boom? This paper looks at how trading patterns (both destinations and composition) are changing in sub-Saharan Africa. Has the region managed to diversify...
The Fat Tail
The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
As Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat reveal in this innovative book, volatile political events such as the 2008 Georgia-Russia confrontation--and their catastrophic effects on business--happen much more frequently than investors imagine. On the curve that charts both the frequency of these events and the...
Leading Smart Transformation
A Roadmap for World Class Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In the turbulence of recent times, how we run corporations has been examined from every angle. Corporations have proved adept at change; governments have stuck to established rules. The challenge is to put in place machinery to provide services in a way that resists the growth of bureaucracy. The need for SMART government could not be starker.
Measured Excess
Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
-- Elise Mellinger, University of Hawaii--Manoa, Korean Studies
The Blood Bankers
Tales from the Global Underground Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Like tentacles on a vast octopus, the firsthand investigations in The Blood Bankers all lead to one core. A financial detective of sorts, investigative journalist Jim Henry analyzes a range of scandals, including the looting of the Philippines by the Marcos family and the financial collapse of nations...
The Great Convergence
Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The twenty-first century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic. We are creating a new global civilization. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West...