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Regional Economic Outlook, October 2018, Asia Pacific
Asia at the Forefront: Growth Challenges for the Next Decade and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Growth in the first half of 2018 was softer than in 2017, especially in advanced economies. In contrast, growth remained robust in emerging market economies and broadly in line with expectations. After rising to 6.9 percent in 2017, growth in China continued to be strong into the first half of 2018...
Regional Economic Outlook, April 2018, Asia Pacific
Good Times, Uncertain Times: A Time to Prepare
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Asia is expected to grow by about 5½ percent this year, accounting for nearly two-thirds of global growth, and the region remains the world’s most dynamic by a considerable margin. But despite the strong outlook, policymakers must remain vigilant. While risks around the forecast are broadly balanced...
by W.B. Reddaway
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
The economic consequences of changing demographics are of as much significance now as when this book was first published.
The book covers not only changes in population size and age-composition, but also factors not included in the word 'declining' - such as increased life expectancy.
Part 1 examines...
Employment Guarantee Schemes
Job Creation and Policy in Developing Countries and Emerging Markets
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Employment Generation Schemes directs attention to challenges and opportunities of enacting direct job creation policies in developing countries and BRICS, including: China, Ghana, Argentina, and India. This exciting new volume investigates how the Job Guarantee might interface with other policy goals.
Challenging Neoliberalism
Globalization and the Economic Miracles in Chile and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Neoliberalism, which advocates free markets without government interference, has become increasingly utilized and controversial over the last three and a half decades. This book presents case studies of Chile and Taiwan, two countries that seemingly prospered from adopting neoliberal strategies, and finds that their developmental histories challenge neoliberalism in fundamental ways.
Ruling Capital
Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
In Ruling Capital, Kevin P. Gallagher demonstrates how several emerging market and developing countries (EMDs) managed to reregulate cross-border financial flows in the wake of the global financial crisis, despite the political and economic difficulty of doing so at the national level. Gallagher also...
Partisan Investment in the Global Economy
Why the Left Loves Foreign Direct Investment and FDI Loves the Left
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Pinto develops a partisan theory of foreign direct investment (FDI) arguing that left-wing governments choose policies that allow easier entry by foreign investors more than right-wing governments, and that foreign investors prefer to invest in countries governed by the left. To reach this determination,...
by Jianguo Qi, Jingxing Zhao, Wenjun Li
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book presents a detailed background to the circular economy in China, explores government measures to promote it in China’s market economy, and introduces the supporting laws and policies. The book goes on to describe, from a technology perspective, successful circular economy practices in...
Luigi Einaudi: Selected Political Essays
Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was a leading liberal Italian economist, economic historian and political figure: Governor of the Bank of Italy, Minister for the Budget and President of the Italian Republic. He was a prolific writer in all fields and his writings testify to his outstanding contribution to economics during his long career.
Income Modeling and Balancing
A Rigorous Treatment of Distribution Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
This book presents a rigorous treatment of the mathematical instruments available for dealing with income distributions, in particular Lorenz curves and related methods. The methods examined allow us to analyze, compare and modify such distributions from an economic and social perspective....
Eco-Socialism For Now and the Future
Practical Utopias and Rational Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
It is increasingly apparent that capitalism cannot stave off the truly frightening ecological disasters that threaten the future of life on earth. Is it an accident that the strongest and most capitalist economic force in the world, the US, is also that force that is most prone to the denial of the...
Protest and the Politics of Blame
The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
The wage arrears crisis has been one of the biggest problems facing contemporary Russia. At its peak, it has involved some $10 billion worth of unpaid wages and has affected approximately 70 percent of the workforce. Yet public protest in the country has been rather limited. The relative passivity...
Trust and Crisis Management in the European Union
An Institutionalist Account of Success and Failure in Program Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This book addresses and explains the divergent economic and political outcomes of the financial crisis in the eight European Union member states which needed a bailout program: Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal, Romania and Spain. Looking at crisis management as a series of relationships...
Greece in the Euro
Economic Delinquency or System Failure?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Greece banked on EMU. Entry into the eurozone was its ticket to macroeconomic stability, its modernisation jacket and its gateway to global markets. So how did such a promising start turn to dust so quickly? Was Greece the delinquent eurozone member whose fiscal downfall nearly brought down some of...