International economics

This book offers a unique insight into the world of standard-setting organizations (SSOs)' IPR policies and the role they play in balancing the interests of innovators and implementers, vis-a-vis the development of standards.

There has been a burgeoning interest in energy security in recent years due to the transformation of the energy landscape through deepening market deregulation, rising environmental challenges, growing energy hunger, and significant political changes.

This Element examines why East Asian countries (with caveats) managed to control Covid-19 better than most other countries.

Trinidad and Chua provide invaluable insights on various dimensions and directions of 21st-century Philippines-Japan relations from Filipino and Japanese scholars.

The debate over eHealth is alive as never before.

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China's economic reform.

Since the creation of the euro and a European Central Bank, the European Union has persistently pursued financial market integration throughout periods of economic growth, membership enlargements, financial breakdown, and political crisis.

This book aims to reframe the broader debate on the recent globalization backlash and its implications for middle-powers such as Canada.

The book provides a comprehensive conceptual understanding covering major challenges and pathways to progressively promote inclusive development in Bangladesh.

Intra-regional trade has been rising rapidly, especially after China's accession to the WTO in 2001.

The G20 (or Group of Twenty) is an international body established to manage the global economy, and includes members from developing economies.

Port Business is essential reading for all those with an interest in trade and transportation and the role of ports in the global supply chain.

The authors provide a summary of the main lessons learned from the past twenty-five years regarding public-private partnerships.

This book brings together leading international scholars and leading scholars from China's highly prestigious Development Research Centre of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, who all put forward their insights into the current challenges for the Chinese and the world economy.

Korea's economic success has inspired numerous studies and research projects in past decades.

Christian Schwarzkopf has developed a new more holistic entrepreneurial ecosystem on a national level and has analyzed as well as compared the fundamentals of innovation and entrepreneurship in Germany and the USA in order to derive the key elements for an entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Amidst the constant stream of overly technical and excitable books heralding a blockchain revolution that's destined to be more disruptive than the Internet, this book stands apart for its more nuanced take, focusing on the potential for these new technologies to change developing countries for the better.

This book explores in depth the factors determining economic development in the Arab region.

This book is a compendium of papers on various new movements that emerged after the Asian financial crisis, which lead to Asia becoming the enhanced growth center of the world.

This book provides a framework for making administration effective and improving mitigation and rehabilitation measures with a view to ensuring a safer life for citizens.

The Indian Ocean is of tremendous geo-political and strategic relevance.

This book explores the unfinished India-Pakistan Trade normalisation agenda (building upon the themes covered in the book "e;India-Pakistan Trade: Strengthening Economic Relations"e; published by Springer in 2014) and discusses the steps that must be undertaken in order to move the bilateral engagement forward.

A comprehensive survey of international financial history across three thousand years that reveals how previous crises were successfully overcome.

History has shown that openness to trade is a key ingredient for economic success and for improved living standards.

This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy.

A New Economic History of Colonial India provides a new perspective on Indian economic history.

In order to understand the dramatic events of 1989 it is necessary to examine the circumstances leading up to them.

Southern Silk Route is the historic route, which runs from China to Myanmar and ends up in Assam.

This title was first published in 2001: In 1979, China opened the door to the West and implemented a series of economic reforms that led the accounting system to depart from the Soviet model.

This handbook covers a wide spectrum of issues relating to small states.

Recent upheaval in the global energy system - dramatic increases in demand led largely by developing countries, significant decreases in supply as a result of local or regional conflicts, and the growing nexus between the burning of hydrocarbons and climate change - has unsettled long-held notions of energy security.

This book comprehensively analyzes the impact of continuing European integration on industrial relations institutions and outcomes.

Food safety has become a major concern for consumers in the developed world and Europe in particular.

This book offers theoretical arguments and original empirical data on the legitimacy of the investor-state dispute settlement system in the eyes of the general public.

The current value of global trade has reached a staggering annual figure of $6 trillion in merchandise crossing borders.

Unfair competition law is concerned with fair play in commerce.

This book examines cooperation between the US and the EU on financial regulatory reform, notably at the outset and the first three years of the global financial crisis.

This handbook provides a reference resource to showcase insightful and nuanced perspectives on Africa's agriculture, industry, services, and manufacturing sectors; factors affecting the sectors' competitiveness; and the sectors' contribution to employment, economic growth, and sustainable development.

Examining the notion, nature, and extent of consent in both commercial arbitration and investment arbitration, this book provides practitioners and academics with a thorough, case-related analysis of an issue which raises many questions.

The renowned economist and New York Times-bestselling author presents a "e;succinct and sophisticated"e; account of Western economic decline (Paul Collier, The Observer).

Consolidation activities such as mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have been one of the major strategies adopted by Indian firms to withstand global competition.

Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.

This book explores the intricate connection between the Single Market, characterized by the freedom of movement of goods, services, capital and labor within and across Europe, and the Digital Single Market, the virtual space that promotes freedom of movement of information and data.

A comprehensive guide to the competition regimes of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

This volume examines the economic problems of Arab countries following the Arab Spring.