International Economics category: 4483 books
by Anne Ms. Gulde
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Hard Target
Sanctions, Inducements, and the Case of North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Because authoritarian regimes like North Korea can impose the costs of sanctions on their citizens, these regimes constitute "hard targets." Yet authoritarian regimes may also be immune—and even hostile—to economic inducements if such inducements imply reform and opening. This book captures...
NATO Expansion and US Strategy in Asia
Surmounting the Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Surmounting the Global Crisis critiques the impact of NATO enlargement and the US 'pivot to Asia' on both the Russia and China and examines how these dual US-backed policies may influence key countries in the Euro-Atlantic, wider Middle East, and Indo-Pacific regions in general.
Evolution of Innovation Management
Trends in an International Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Uses new approaches and solutions to tackle innovations in an international context. Some of the challenges of innovating are remarkably consistent and recent times have shown the emergence of new ways for stimulating and managing the innovation process. The authors explore these new routes and assess their value for markets and companies.
Reconstructing the World Trade Organization for the 21st Century
An Institutional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
The institutional shortcomings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) became apparent during the Doha Round of Trade negotiations that began in 2001 and which aimed to improve the success of developing countries' trading by lowering trade barriers and adjusting other trade rules. This "development...
by Michael Mr. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
An Economic History of Organized Crime
A National and Transnational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
This book is a comparative study of organized crime groups from five different parts of the world: Europe; North America; Central America/South America/Caribbean basin; Africa; and Asia/Western Pacific. Each part contains two case studies and a shorter essay, a vignette. From Europe the case studies...
by Eric Mr. Clifton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
2011 China's Trade Performance Report
World Economy Restructuring and China's Trade
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Since its accession to the WTO, China had been enjoying a rapid growth in foreign trade, which has become the major driving force behind its surging economic development. However, the outbreak of the financial crisis at the end of 2008 left China with a fragile international market. Although there...
Attitudes Towards Europe Beyond Euroscepticism
Supporting the European Union through the Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
The book addresses the topic of EU legitimacy by exploring the forms, origins and effects of citizens' support to EU institutions. Through examining the wide-ranging levels of support, the authors show how these multi-faceted attitudes cast shade on the outdated, somewhat one-dimensional concept...
by Kevin Carey, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Catherine Ms. Pattillo
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Growth in sub-Saharan Africa has recently shown signs of improvement, but is still short of levels needed to attain the Millennium Development Goals. Economists have placed increasing emphasis on understanding the policies that promote sustained jumps in medium-term growth, and the paper applies this...
Spaces of International Economy and Management
Launching New Perspectives on Management and Geography
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
A structural overview of the new field of management geography including globalization, embeddedness of MNEs, networking, hybridization, regional economies, technology, acculturation, internationalization, IHRM and implications for management and government.
The Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Islamic Banking
A Comparative Look at the United Kingdom and Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
During the last ten years the Islamic banking sector has grown rapidly, at an international level, as well as in individual jurisdictions including the UK. Islamic finance differs quite substantially from conventional banking, using very different mechanisms, and operating according to a different...
Risk Regulation in the United States and European Union
Controlling Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems to pressure governments to insure against risk.