International Economics category: 4483 books
China Matters
Getting It Right for Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Australia and China face a new era, but are we ready?
Australia’s prosperity and security are linked to China as never before. But what kind of a country is China becoming? Will its demand for Australian goods and services increase? Can the Communist Party continue to keep the middle class...
Stumbling Giant
The Threats to China's Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China’s rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy of the policy...
The Empire Trap
The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement...
Clothing Poverty
The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
‘An interesting and important account.’
Daily Telegraph
Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling?
Following a pair of jeans, Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
The European economy is still in recession, even though there are some weak indications of stabilization. This book examines important aspects of the crisis in selected countries of Southern Europe, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. The intensity of the crisis and its economic and social repercussions...
Biography of the Dollar
How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It's Under Siege
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Will the sun set on the greatest currency in the history of the world?
For decades the dollar has been the undisputed champ. It’s not only the currency of America but much of the world as well, the fuel of global prosperity. As the superengine of the world’s only superpower, it’s accepted...
China, Inc.
How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2005
The updated edition of journalist Ted C. Fishman's bestselling explanation of how China is rapidly becoming a global industrial superpower and how the American economy is challenged by this new reality.
China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering the...
Services Trade and Development
The Experience of Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
Some see trade in services as irrelevant to the development agenda for least developed countries (LDCs). Others see few benefits from past market openings by LDCs. This book debunks both views. It finds that serious imperfections in Zambia's reform of services trade deprived the country of significant...
Paper Promises
Debt, Money, and the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Longlisted for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
For the past forty years western economies have splurged on debt. Now, as the reality dawns that many debts cannot be repaid, we find ourselves again in crisis. But the oncoming defaults have a time-worn...
Korea: The Impossible Country
South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
"Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Korea today." —Martin Uden, Former British Ambassador to South Korea
In just fifty years, South Korea has transformed itself from...
China's Asian Dream
Empire Building along the New Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
"China", Napoleon once remarked, "is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared the lion had awakened. Under his leadership, China is pursuing a dream to restore its historical position as the...
by Dianna Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
High-growth, high-return Africa is the most sought after frontier destination for global investment today. But with 54 countries on the continent, even rigorous business plans can run aground on the unique and complex circumstances found within them. Business in Africa: corporate insights takes the...
Doing the China Tango
How to Dance Around Common Pitfalls in Chinese Business Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Winning in China requires time, commitment, and knowledge. Conducting business as usual is not how to accomplish objectives.
Authors Alan Refkin and Scott D. Cray enjoy success conducting business in China because they know that the rules there are different. Now, they open up their playbooks...
Crude Nation
How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude—the world’s largest reserves—an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately...