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Growth with Inequality
An International Comparison on Income Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
In the era of globalization and liberalization, the world is enjoying high growth as well as suffering from the ill-effects of unequal distribution of its economic outcomes. The activities of anti-government demonstrations in China and across the world via the Occupy Wall Street Movement highlight...
Labour Economics and Public Policy
Managing the Labour Markets for Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book serves as a textbook on labour economics and public policy in labour markets.
It also shows how Singapore has been successful in establishing a world class labour market. One attribute of such a labour market is the high purchasing power of wages for the average worker for essentials...
Sustainability Matters
Environmental and Climate Changes in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Sustainability Matters is a compilation of some of the best research papers by students from the National University of Singapore's multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary graduate programme in environmental studies, the M.Sc. in Environmental Management [MEM]. This collection is for the period...
Quantitative Financial Analytics
The Path to Investment Profits
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the important aspects of investment theory, security analysis, and portfolio selection, with a quantitative emphasis not to be found in most other investment texts.
The statistical analysis framework of markets and institutions in the book meets...
by Isaac Elishakoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
The first edition of the combined monograph and textbook Probabilistic Methods in the Theory of Structures was published by Wiley-Interscience in 1983. 1n 1999, Dover Publications, Inc. published its second edition under shorter title Probabilistic Theory of Structures. Now, World Scientific has expanded...
World Scientific Reference on Innovation
(In 4 Volumes)
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
This multi-volume set covers a wide range of topics on innovation, which are all of great interest to academics, policymakers, university administrators, state and regional economic development officials, and students. Two unique features of the volume are the large body of global evidence on innovation...
by Oliviero Roggi
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Scholars and practitioners have known for a long time that risk plays an important, indeed central, role in determining the appropriate discount rate to be used in a sophisticated valuation model. In today's world, however, the very risk of survival, especially for financial institutions, is essential...
Legal Basis of Global Tissue Banking
A Proactive Clinical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The banking of human tissues for clinical transplantation has grown exponentially in the past 10-15 years. Tissue banks have been set up throughout the world, initially on an ad hoc basis. More recently these have grown and in many countries have linked up with larger international companies. While...
by Chitat Chong, Qi Feng, Theodore A Slaman;W Hugh Woodin
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
This volume is based on the talks given at the Workshop on Infinity and Truth held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, from 25 to 29 July 2011. The chapters cover topics in mathematical and philosophical logic that examine various aspects of the foundations...
by Qing-Bin Lu
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
This monograph reviews the establishment of new theories of the ozone hole and global climate change, two major scientific problems of global concern. It provides a comprehensive overview of the author's work including significant discoveries and pioneering contributions, such as the discovery of...
by Barry E Prentice, Darren Prokop
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Transportation is the world's largest invisible industry. Modern society is completely dependent on transportation to sustain its way of life, and it is all around us constantly. Yet the economics of transportation is a mystery to most people. Why do air fares rise and fall? Why do urban transit systems...
Asian Free Trade Agreements and WTO Compatibility
Goods, Services, Trade Facilitation and Economic Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
It is an appropriate time to rethink the relationship between trade regionalism and multilateralism in the Asian context as we witness the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia. In the 1980s and 1990s, many scholars and policymakers believed that Asian integration was market-based,...
by Jean-Luc Lebrun, Justin Lebrun
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The Grant Writing and Crowdfunding Guide prepares you, the young investigator, to step up to the challenge of funding your own research. And what a challenge. Writing a successful grant demands much more than a first-class inquisitive scientific mind. As you will soon discover, raw talent may keep...
How I Saw It
Analysis and Commentary on Environmental Finance (19992005)
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
From 1999 to 2005, Richard L Sandor wrote a monthly column for Environmental Finance magazine. The column was called "How I See It", and with this latest publication, Sandor has compiled all of his articles into one comprehensive historical analysis and commentary on the field of Environmental...