Economic growth

Based on new phenomena appearing in many emerging economies, this book presents a theoretical study on the economic influences of labor transfer from several aspects.

This is the first theoretical book on Chinese Cultural Soft Power.

The book provides insights into the development of special economic zones, which are an important factor in the political and economic reforms in China.

The book examines the trade liberalization measures, which were initiated in India during 1991 and which focused on manufacturing industries.

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.

This book addresses the socio-economic impacts of rapid economic development due to a global mining boom.

This book focuses on multi-level actions that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, decision makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects of low-carbon energy development.

The aim of this book is to analyze Japan's high-growth economy, in particular to clarify the kinds of changes in people's lives that were generated by high growth.

This book explores key questions concerning the reasons for China's economic miracle and the rise of BRICs.

This book clarifies the mechanisms of economicglobalization in changing industries locations and shows how industries locations have changedthrough those mechanisms.

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There is a significant discrepancy between the population of Egypt and the GDP of this country.

La economía colaborativa es una respuesta a las nuevas configuraciones de los factores de producción en un mundo caracterizado por el uso masivo de las tecnologías de la información.

La política económica es un ejercicio político con implicaciones éticas que debe basarse en gran medida, pero no exclusivamente, en el análisis económico y debe juzgarse a partir de sus resultados.

The term innovation has been a concept excessively manipulated by government leaders, important businessmen, academicians, consultants and journalists, trying to sell a motive to those who want or need a change, whether they are accustomed to buying products in an exaggerated way with no other purpose than supporting consumer habits, or to those who practically do not need them.

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This book examines the impact of EU trade and investment agreements on public services, a topic that continues to be the subject of heated political debate.

The Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration is the first academic publication aiming to offer comprehensive coverage, on a yearly basis, of the most recent and salient developments regarding international sports arbitration, through a combination of general articles and case notes.

The contributions in this book cover a wide range of topics within modern disputeresolution, which can be summarised as follows: harmonisation, enforcement andalternative dispute resolution.

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This book takes a close look at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), challenging existing claims and answering previously unanswered questions, by considering all of its publicly available decisions, both in its entirety as a body of jurisprudence and on a case-by-case level.

This book centres on the war that raged between Eritrea and Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000, a war that caused great loss of life and tremendous devastation.

This book makes a significant contribution to the comprehension of the law and practice of provisional measures issued by international courts and tribunals, including international commercial arbitration.

Applied Industrial Organization offers a perspective on the richness of empirical industrial organization studies.

This book presents the results of a study of long-term perspectives for energy development of the world and its main regions, performed at the Siberian Energy Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Energy Systems Institute since 1998).

Edmond Malinvaud This book provides a most welcome survey of what statisticians and economists know about an aspect of production that is difficult to precisely characterize but matters a lot for both its importance on economic performance and its social implications.

The origins of this book lie in a project of the International Geographical Union Study Group on the Geography of Sustainable Tourism.

There is widespread concern for long-term environmental issues in relation to economic processes and developments.

Economy, society, and environment comprise the three main dimensions of sustainable development but too often they are considered separately.

Achieving the goals and objectives of sustainable development requires better information about the consequences of proposed actions.

Regional economic models are the key to predicting the effects of transportation, economic development, energy, fiscal and environmental policies.

The connection between economic growth and the quality of the environment is a popular subject.

I am both pleased and honored to introduce this book to readers, and I want to take a few moments to explain why.

In recent years, the contemporary social sciences have again turned their attention to space and places.

Despite their importance in terms of employment and income generation, inshore fisheries have been a neglected area of study.

The Unique Nature of Frontier Cities and their Development Challenge Harvey Lithwick and Yehuda Grad us The advent of government downsizing, and globalization has led to enormous com- petitive pressures as well as the opening of new opportunities.

Corporate Geography examines the spatial structures and behaviour of large business organizations.

Global climate change is expected to have major impacts on water resources and aquatic ecosystems.

Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading `globalization.

European Consumer Policy after Maastricht raises both `horizontal' and `vertical' issues of consumer policy in the European Community and associated countries.

Policy failures in environment and development have been blamed on frag- mented and eclectic policies and strategies.

Cities form one of the principal arenas in which globalization processes are manifest.

Systems approaches for agricultural development are needed to determine rational strategies for the role of agriculture in national development.

This book contains six studies on various national environmental policies and environment -oriented technology policy systems in Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom, sandwiched between this introductory and a concluding chapter.

This volume contains the genuine proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Strategic Approaches to the Assessment and Management of Manufacturing Technology Innovation, Bled, Slovenia, June 3-5, 1997.

Over the last several decades there has been a growing interest in Research & Development (R&D) policy.

Technology transfer has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years in Western Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim.

In the autumn of 1990 there was a sense of change taking place in the world economy.

After decades of effortless growth and prosperity, America's postsecondary institutions of education have come under increasing financial stress and waning public support.