International economics

In this book prominent academics and central bankers explore the framework for securing financial stability in a changing environment.

The book investigates the competitive opportunities for Canadian and UK businesses in the world economy generally, but more particularly in a bilateral (Canada-UK) and regional bloc (European Union-North American Free Trade Association) setting.

Analyzes the economic, social, political and environmental implications of NAFTA from a range of critical perspectives.

Considerable effort has been made over the last ten years by such institutions as the EU, OECD, UNO and the IASC towards the harmonisation of accounting standards.

Drawing on case-studies from the industrialization of East and Southeast Asian nations, this text critically examines the structural adjustment policies used in Africa since the 1980s.

This edited volume examines Japan's increasing links with Latin America from three perspectives.

The book considers the determinants of the regional distribution of foreign manufacturing investment in the UK.

Recent cataclysmic changes in the international economic order are shaping the global policy choices of the 1990s.

In this volume practitioners and theorists from East and West assess the results of four years of transformation in Eastern Europe.

The Nordic tax systems have recently undergone dramatic changes.

East-West trade and technology transfer have always been linked to the issue of "e;national security"e;.

Analyzes the differences in the approach to Soviet trade between the US and Germany since 1917.

The interest of this book is that the aims of the IAE conference of 1958 can now be assessed in light of the development of the last 30 years.

As we enter the early 1990s, the second phase of global deregulation gains momentum and cross-border activity in the securities markets has never been greater.

Much has been written about the British experience in India.

In this volume the perceptive reader will find many clues to the future of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, East-West economic relations and the impact of governments in this area.

This text explores the motives for attacks on maritime trade over the last five centuries and assesses the strategic utility of that form of naval action.

A study of the determinants of world development from 1960 onwards, using advanced statistical techniques and data from up to 171 countries and territories.

A volume of essays by a number of economists to honour Nurul Islam, an Asian economist who made important contributions as an academic economist and political planner.

This work contains papers presented at a conference held in March 1988.

This is a statistical handbook of data about COMECON, the Council for Mutal Economic Assistance whose members include Bulgaria, CSSR, GDR, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the USSR.

This book analyses the dynamics of international production location and trade.

Analyzes the political process in South Africa and the SADCC countries.

Designed to break down the mystique which has surrounded the subject of foreign exchange for so long.

The author does not believe that the governments of the European Community - even supposing that they can agree on the matter - will succeed in imposing the ECU as a payment and reserve currency for use in the EEC's external trade.

The last two decades have seen significant changes in the pattern of protectionism, both in terms of the instruments used, and the countries affected.

The papers in this volume were presented at a conference on "e;The EMS, Ten Years Later"e; at the University of Bergamo, Italy, May 1989.

More and more Third World countries are providing development assistance to other developing countries.

This book is Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the World Economic Congress held in Athens in 1989 under the auspices of the International Economic Association.

This book, with an overview introduction by Kenneth J.

This text looks at the future prospects for the British coal industry by investigating its historical role, and by examining it in the light of contemporary world coal trade.

Analyzes growing US-Soviet economic interdependence and the implications of economic pressure in their relationship.

This book is concerned with the ideological origins of the cold war and how it was fought by economic means.

The liberalization of trade and factor movements and the adoption of a common currency proposed for the EEC in 1992 have important implications for the rest of the world.

Despite the various policy approaches tried over the years, the essential problem of the Latin American debt remains unabated - that financing the debts' burden impairs the developmental efforts of the region.

This collection of articles by an internationally recognised authority on the multinational enterprise contains advances in theory, examinations of organisational issues and empirical studies of multinationals in the world economy.

The objective of the Single European Act is to establish a European market without barriers, thereby enabling the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital.

This is an evaluation of the external economic relations of the island of Cyprus involving trade, finance and tourism.

This book looks at the implications of financial liberalization for three southern European countries - Greece, Portugal and Spain.

For centuries the Yangzi delta has acted as the locomotive of China's economic growth.

This volume contains 24 of the contributions made to the conference on "e;Economic Decision-making in a Changing World"e; held in 1988.

Providing an evaluation of procedures for quantifying the effects of non-tariff barriers, this book examines the theoretical bases for alternative procedures for measuring NTBs effects, and also presents a critical survey of previous studies that utilized these empirical studies.

The book reviews protectionist practices in the United States, the European Community and Japan.

The papers in this book cover the wide range of Robert Triffin's expertise.

Focusing on trade in manufactures, industrial restructuring and economic development and enforced by a rich source of data, this book offers an in-depth examination of the evolution and characteristics of Hong Kong's postwar economy.

The European Community and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations functions and powers - have established a formal relationship which could provide a valuable model for interregional cooperation between industrialized and developing countries, now that repeated efforts to launch global North-South negotiations have come a dead end.

The aim of this book is to use geometry as the main medium of exposition to take those with a basic knowledge of economics from an elementary application of that knowledge to the most recent developments in the field of inter and intra-industry international trade theory.

How competitive is the UK economy?

The object of this volume, drawn from the papers of an international trade conference, is to explore the reasons for changes in the patterns of exports and imports and the roles of major groups of countries in trade.

An analysis of Soviet spatial resource allocation decision making during the period 1955-1980, utilizing a political economy framework to evaluate the "e;East-West"e; debate over relative investment shares in the European and Pacific Siberian parts of the USSR.