This book will bridge the knowledge gap and provide valuable insights into how sustainable HRM practices can contribute not only to organizational sustainability but also to sustainability at large.
Nonreciprocal preferential trade arrangements are a defining feature of the relationship between developed and developing countries dating back to the colonial era.
This book discusses the role played by powerful global institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation, multinational corporations, and the international credit rating agencies in keeping Africa marginalised in the world economy.
This book discusses the role played by powerful global institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation, multinational corporations, and the international credit rating agencies in keeping Africa marginalised in the world economy.
The study demonstrates that informal cross-border is a complex phenomenon and not uniform across the region, or even through border posts of the same country.
Public policies are usually carefully designed to address a particular problem, but they are also shaped and influenced by the sociocultural heritage of a particular country.
Finance has long been an integral part of the capitalist economy, yet since the 1970s the realm of finance has burgeoned, reaching well beyond its traditional funding roles.
As the first major collection of papers on sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises, this book provides an essential guide to the geo-political impact of these pools of capital on global markets.
Meeting the people who grow our bananas and cocoa and make our clothes, this No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade tells the human story behind what we consume.
Islamic finance is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the finance industry due to a number of factors, including the technology boom, fintech, blockchain, and higher oil and commodity prices, but also, in particular, its demand by 1.
With various crises experienced in the meat supply chain in the UK and elsewhere, seldom has the international meat industry been subject to so much attention as it is in the opening years of the 21st century.
The Oil Trading Manual (OTM) provides a unique and comprehensive reference source to the latest developments in the structure and conduct of the international oil markets including:- Physical characteristics and refining- Oil pricing arrangements- Physical oil markets- Forward and futures contracts- Options and swaps- Operations and logistics- Accounting and taxation- Controlling financial risk- Legal and regulatory controlOTM provides a unique and comprehensive reference source to the structure and conduct of the international oil markets.
In the global economy, goods, services, investments, loans, information and people move across national borders with growing freedom and rapidly increasing volumes.
Wood and wood products are essential to large areas of the world economy and yet there has until now been no single definitive reference source to which those new to or requiring a strategic overview of the industry could turn for a comprehensive picture of the market chain from forest to consumer.
Although consumption of spirits on a global scale is vast, the spirits industry derives its profits from a relatively small number of countries and product lines.
The international financial system has come under strain several times in recent years, and analysis has shown that most crises originated from the risks built into cross-border exposures.
This far-reaching report addresses nickel industry's key issues as it emerges from the roller-coaster ride of price volatility which has characterised it in recent years.
This report analyses the state of the aluminium market at the beginning of the 21st century, looking at the aftermath of the MoU and at trends and developments in the established and emerging market economies considering the changes and challenges faced by aluminium in its core automotive, packaging and building end-use sectors.
Oil Kings offers the first inside look at how an oil crisis was manipulated by Alan Greenspan, Donald Rumsfeld, and President Ford (hoping to secure his re-election), helping to precipitate the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979.
Inside the super-rich, super-secretive, unregulated funds that are wresting control of world financeThe most potent force in global commerce today isn't Wall Street, the multinational banks, or the governments of the G7 countries.
In diesem Buch werden die aktuellen Theorien der europäischen Integration, wie Föderalismus, Neofunktionalismus und liberaler Intergouvernementalismus, mit ihren Stärken und Schwächen vorgestellt.
