International economics

This volume discusses the development of the Mexican manufacturing sector during the NAFTA era.

Like a giant oil tanker, the world is slowly turning.

Jackie Sheehan traces the background and development of workers clashes with the Chinese Communist Party through mass campaigns such as the 1956-7 Hundred Flowers movement, the Cultural Revolution, the April Fifth Movement of 1976, Democracy Wall and the 1989 Democracy Movement.

Why have some countries been able to escape the usual dead end of international development efforts and build explosively growing capitalist economies?

Europe suffers from an inadequate capacity to transform scientific and technolo- cal knowledge into business opportunities [.

In Global Instability , internationally renowned contributors examine the key problems besetting the world economy in the era of globalisation and outline possible solutions.

Architects of Austerity argues that the seeds of neoliberal politics were sown in the 1950s and 1960s.

First published in 1990, this book was intended as a counter to the rising and continued strength of the New Right and an attempt to bolster the perceived weakness of the opposition - providing a critical discussion of New Right ideology and also of the more influential Left reactions to them.

This book examines how increasing Africa-China relations in the fields of trade, development finance and investment have impacted productive capacities and structural economic transformation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Composite indices are used by national and international organisations, as well as governments and corporations, to track various performance aspects of a country's economy and its people, evaluate progress, and engage constructively in policy dialogue; and they have long proven useful as communication tools and inputs into decision-making and policymaking.

This book offers a new perspective on the concept of modernity.

Knowledge of Asian business is dominated by conventional wisdom, much of which has achieved the status of myth.

This book seeks to offer for the first time a detailed, well researched and holistic account of social responsibility from Asia.

An in-depth look at two decades of a movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the global market.

This book provides readers with a unique opportunity to learn about one of the new regional trade agreements (RTAs), the China Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA), that has been operational since December 2015 and is now at the forefront of the field.

Banks play the most vital role in the economy by acting as financial intermediaries and providing the necessary credit to fund consumption and investment, thereby effecting real economic activity.

"Wirtschaftswunder Sri Lanka: Wirtschaftliche Chancen erschließen" öffnet die Tore zu einem der dynamischsten Märkte Südasiens.

So what is a member-owned business?

Designed to promote reflection and 'better practices' among the prospective volunteers and organizers of travel-for-service experiences, International Volunteer Tourism provides narratives on short-term international volunteering in Central America written by North American organizers, student participants and Central American partners.

This book deals with tax harmonization and financial integration in Europe.

The global demographic transition presents marked asymmetries as poor, emerging, and advanced countries are undergoing different stages of transition.

Governance through Development locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) framework within the broader context of international law and global governance, exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and the international regulatory norms and institutions which support it.

This book on mobility of health professionals reviews, analyses and summarises published information and data as well as collected interview data from stake holders, including politicians, policy makers, health service managers and migrant health workers.

This is a book on the Belt and Road Initiative, written from an unusual perspective - it is written by someone who was born in India but raised in Singapore; who has never spent a day of schooling in the greater China (Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau) but has Chinese heritage; who eventually built a long and distinguished career in the West.

The early twenty-first century has seen a conspicuous absence of formal international law concerning money and finance.

Aid for Trade (AfT) has become a major item on the international trade and development discourse.

It is widely believed that natural mineral resources are desirable.

This book represents the first scholarly attempt to summarize and analyze how Korea's relationship with Africa has been shaped in policy and non-policy aspects.

More than any other area of regulation, antitrust economics shapes law and policy in the United States, the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

This volume provides a state of the art review of current thinking on the full range of trade policy issues, addressing the economic and political dimensions of international trade policy.

Published in 1982 this is an introductory study of the international spread of modern industrial technology.

The Dutch economy has relied on trade for centuries.

Islamic Macroeconomics proposes an Islamic model that offers significant prospects for economic growth and durable macroeconomic stability, and which is immune to the defects of the economic models prevailing both in developed and developing countries.

In the early modern period, trade became a truly global phenomenon.

Multinational Business Finance trains the leaders of tomorrow's multinational enterprises to recognize and capitalize on the unique characteristics of global markets.

Western aid is in decline.

This title was first published in 2002: Anthony Bende-Nabende focuses on the ongoing globalization process, which has sparked an unprecedented world-wide debate.

Encircling India from different flanks is seemingly a key strategic objective of China, apart from others.

Presenting new material and a fresh perspective, Technology, Trade and Growth in OECD Countries, provides a unifying framework for the exploration of the role played by specialisation in economic growth and international competitiveness.

Traces an important shift in international development policy as global institutions have become preoccupied with policy failure.