Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by Takeshi Kawanaka, Yasushi Hazama
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This study explores why democratization does not necessarily result in inequality reduction in emerging democracies and reveals the determinants of income inequality in emerging democracies, where the average level of inequality continues to be higher and where there is a larger variance of inequality...
The Economics of Agricultural Development
World Food Systems and Resource Use
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Persistent problems with poverty, rapid population growth and malnutrition in many developing countries are among the most serious issues facing the world today. This book examines the causes, severity and effects of these problems, as well as potential solutions.
The authors consider the implications...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Present day knowledge about public sector reforms in Asia is quite scattered and seldom focuses on the challenges of leadership. This edited collection seeks to address this issue by presenting country cases that reflect the great diversity of the region.
Home to roughly one-third of the...
Re-mapping the Americas
Trends in Region-making
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Since the end of the Second World War the map of the Americas has changed dramatically. Not only were many former European colonies turned into sovereign states, there was also an ongoing process of region-making recognizable throughout the hemisphere and obvious through the establishment of several...
New South African Review 6
The Crisis of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Its extremes of wealth and poverty undermine intensifying struggles for a better life for all. The wide-ranging essays in this sixth volume of the New South African Review demonstrate how the...
Can the Debt Growth Be Stopped?
Rules-Based Policy Options for Addressing the Federal Fiscal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book explores new fiscal rules introduced in OECD countries and the relevance of fiscal rules for the unique fiscal policies and institutions in the United States. The rules in different countries are compared, with a more in depth analysis of two countries with arguably the most successful fiscal...
The Reform of Europe
A Political Guide to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A powerful and progressive programme for the Eurozone
Since 2010, the eurozone crisis has roiled the continent, creating political discord and generating a long period of economic stagnation. The cyclical recovery enjoyed in 2017 is no cause for complacency. It should act as an impetus to undertake...
by Jude C. Hays
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
As the world economy slides into the worst recession since the 1930s, there is fear that hard times will ignite a backlash against free trade policies and globalization more generally. This book explores the political and economic institutional foundations of the bargain of embedded liberalism and...
by Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin, Anis Chowdhury
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book studies the challenges for Indonesia, once a miracle economy, as it faces premature deindustrialisation, rising inequality and domestic and external factors impacting its export-oriented industrialization. Since the fall of Soeharto, Indonesia has undergone a far-reaching systemic transition...
by M. Lal, K.
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The economic theory of international trade differs from the remainder of economic theory mainly because of the comparatively limited international mobility of the capital and labour. In that respect, it would appear to differ in degree rather than in principle from the trade between remote regions...
Frontiers of Capital
Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in information and communication technology, management and production techniques, and global integration that...
Global Communications
Toward a Transcultural Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
This provocative book takes a new approach toward understanding the uneven flows of global communications. Rather than guiding its discussion by geography, types of media, or traditional separations of power and resistance, Global Communications examines political economic power and communication...
Building Business in Post-Communist Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia
Collective Goods, Selective Incentives, and Predatory States
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Prior to 1989, the communist countries of Eastern Europe and the USSR lacked genuine employer and industry associations. After the collapse of communism, industry associations mushroomed throughout the region. Duvanova argues that abusive regulatory regimes discourage the formation of business associations...
Who Gains from Free Trade
Export-Led Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
The issue of the pros and cons of free trade from the point of view of developing countries refuses to dissipate, and in Latin America, the debate rages most fiercely. Argentina is still licking its wounds after a catastrophic past five years, and Brazil and others have hardened their line – even...