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Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence
4th International Conference on Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem, GRMSE 2016, Hong Kong, China, November 18-20, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The two volume proceedings of CCIS 698 and 699 constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem, GRMSE 2016, held in Hong Kong, China, in November 2016.
The total of 118 papers presented in these proceedings...
Mergers and Acquisitions
A Study of Financial Performance, Motives and Corporate Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The book examines the market reaction to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announcements over a period from 2003 to 2015. Mergers and acquisitions continue to be amongst the preferred competitive options available to the companies seeking to grow fast in the rapidly changing global business scenario....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This book sheds new light on the role of industrial districts in the industrial development of the past and present. Industrial districts, which refer to the geographical concentration of enterprises producing similar or closely related commodities in a small area, play a significant role in the development...
Introduction of Biotechnology in India’s Agriculture
Impact, Performance and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Biotechnology can bring major breakthroughs in agriculture. The book examines the experience of introduction of biotechnology in Indian agriculture, specifically, examining the performance of Bt cotton versus non-Bt cotton across India’s major cotton states, namely Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra...
Resources, Technology and Sustainability
An Analytical Perspective on Indian Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
This book uses sound theoretical frameworks and econometric techniques to rigorously analyze and explain the conditions of sustainable growth in agriculture. It further investigates how management of natural resources and technological advances can enhance productivity and ensure sustainable growth...
by Zhangrun Xu
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
The major intellectual interest throughout this book is to offer a study on China's legal legacy, through Liang Shu-ming's eyes. The book follows the formula of the parallel between Life and Mind (人生与人心), Physis and Nomos, and compares Liang Shu-ming's narrative with his own practical orientation...
Law, State and Inequality in Pakistan
Explaining the Rise of the Judiciary
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2017
Through a detailed historical and empirical account of post-independence years, this book offers a new assessment of the role of the judiciary in Pakistani politics. Instead of seeing the judiciary as helpless or struggling against an authoritarian state, it argues that the judiciary has been a crucial...
National Test
System Design of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2016
This book discusses the latest developments in the China Pilot Free- Trade Zone strategy. It puts forward and explains the idea that building the Shanghai Pilot Free-Trade Zone (SFTZ) is a national test, as it is a major strategic decision to help China cope with the new situation resulting from opening-up...
by Qunhui Huang
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Based on long-term research, this book comprehensively and systematically discusses the industrialization process in China, analyzing the level, characteristics, achievements and experiences as well as the problems faced. It also provides answers to important questions related to economic development...
Economic Miracle Market South Korea
A Blueprint for Economic Growth in Developing Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
This book explores the historical and economic development of South Korea, its culture, as well as the benefits, opportunities and challenges that German companies have faced in their cooperation with South Korean enterprises. More specifically, it juxtaposes economic-miracle markets such as Japan...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This comprehensive volume provides uniquely diverse insights into various aspects of decentralization and development from both developed and developing countries, with special reference to Sri Lanka. For a quarter century, Sri Lanka was battered by its prolonged civil war, which ended in 2009, but...
China's Road and China's Dream
An Analysis of the Chinese Political Decision-Making Process Through the National Party Congress
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This book defines China’s road towards modernization with Chinese characteristics by systematically examining a typical Chinese political process – the National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), during which diverse opinions are collected and a unified political consensus is formed....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book describes and analyzes the new problems and challenges faced by China's non-governmental enterprises. In the post-WTO era, which has been particularly affected by the international financial crisis, there will be many problems and challenges that need to be faced in the development of non-governmental...
India Bangladesh Domestic Politics
The River Ganges Water Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This book deals with how the governments of India and Bangladesh manage the Ganges River. On the basis of the Ganges issue, it explains India’s involvement in the domestic politics of Bangladesh and how this involvement, in turn, shapes Ganges river politics. The book further analyses the constant...