The book brings together implementation studies from the Asia Pacific countries in the context of the deadline of 2015 for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
What changes are occurring at the macro and the sectoral levels, how the labour market changes are taking place and what impact is felt on the low income households are some of the questions that the present volume focuses on.
IN EVERY chapter of this book, mention has been made of the money-making secret which has made fortunes for more than five hundred exceedingly wealthy men whom I have carefully analyzed over a long period of years.
El producto interno bruto (PIB), inventado en la década de 1940, es un indicador clave de la política económica; se considera un referente para la medición de la magnitud de la economía de un país y es comúnmente el anclaje de otros indicadores importantes, como el déficit fiscal y el índice de desarrollo humano (IDH).
This book gives a coherent explanation of the socio-economic dynamics of Japan from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries by means of the evolution of internalized culture and the role of culture in the ordering of the market.
This book compiles the presentations and discussions from the international symposium "e;Beyond Global Capitalism"e; that was held with the contributions of Emmanuel Todd, Ha-Joon Chang, and other scholars in Kyoto, Japan, in 2013.
This is the first English book that presents a professional analysis of the recent dynamic movement of the Chinese economy by focusing on the Yangtze River Delta region, which is the main engine of the Chinese economy.
This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an industrious revolution in the early modern period and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan since the eighteenth century, improving living standards and leading to the formation of the work ethic of modern Japan.
This book integrates three levels of political-economic analysis: first a comparative institutional analysis of the varieties of capitalism in both Europe and Asia, second a macroeconomic analysis of industrial structural change and economic dynamics of the national economies in Europe and Asia, and then an encompassing analysis of international production linkages and international financial instability which determine the long-term patterns of regional integration in Europe and Asia.
During the past 4 years, faith in the present financial model has been shaken in terms of policy, regulation, the financial sector itself, and exchange-rate regimes.
Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance (APBBEF) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Emerald Publishing and is designed to focus on interdisciplinary research in finance, economics, and management among Pacific Rim countries.
Kritische Fragen nach der Vereinbarkeit von Umweltschutz und Wirtschaft tauchen fast täglich in den Nachrichten- und Kommentarkonferenzen der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung als einer der führenden nationalen Medien auf.
"Sparsam wachsen" ist das Gebot der Stunde - denn die meisten Rohstoffe sind endlich, das Wirtschaftswachstum ist dadurch aber nicht zwangsläufig begrenzt.
The main research problem addressed in the book is the one regarding the role that export diversification could play for enhancing economic growth in Colombia, both in terms of new products and new geographic markets.
In spite of the widespread use of the concept of potential output in economic theory and empirical applications as well as in economic policy debates, the historical background and the assumptions inherent to this concept are rarely made transparent, let alone critically questioned.
Das Lehrbuch behandelt die wesentlichen Gebiete der Makroökonomie in kompakter Form, darunter Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung, Geld-, Güter- und Arbeitsmärkte, Erwartungen und Krisen.
Despite an improved analytical knowledge of poverty, a complex multilateral transfer system of official development assistance (ODA), and a list of clearly defined objectives (Millennium Development Goals), poverty reduction in low-income countries remains a great challenge for researchers and practitioners alike.
Although interest in spatial growth regressions has been growing in recent years, formal theoretical approaches that acknowledge the role of space in economic growth have been sparse.