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The aim of this book is to track the historical origins of China's economic reforms.

This book captures Nigeria's crisis management experience and lessons learnt during the five-year tenure of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as CBN Governor.

The liberalization and globalization of the Indian economy has made India more vulnerable to macro issues.

The author examines the rise of the BRICs and the supposed decline of the United States.

This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies.

Latin America was one of the regions least affected by the global financial crisis of 2008.

The International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series explores the latest developments in political economy.

In this pithy yet compact book, David Wolf, provides business owners and PR practitioners with a roadmap to corporate credibility in China.

This book is divided up into three sections.

Since 2007, South Africa has been one of the world's upcoming Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) offshore destinations.

Family firms account for a large proportion of firms in most countries.

Given the reality of China's economic development and urbanization, this book studies the development of the private sector and the process of regional urbanization in the Yangtze River Delta region to provide a path for new urbanization throughout China.

The 41st Annual Conference of the Academy of International Business UK and Ireland Chapter was held at The University of York in April 2014.

Organizations are increasingly facing continuous and highly complex changes that require more proactive strategies, policies and management practices.

This study addresses the two major challenges facing the global economy: globalization and the European structural crisis.

Phronesis and Quiddity in Management addresses the issue of the excellence in judgment-making, its concept and characterisation.

Experiences of Emerging Economy Firms investigates the different elements of the experiences of emerging economy firms and sheds essential light on a large variety of aspects associated with their functioning in both home and host contexts.

Using cases on individual countries, Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa offers diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on a variety of issues facing policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders in the region.

International Management and Intercultural Communication consists of cases of direct observation and personal involvement in a wide variety of communication challenges in international management settings; and discusses them in terms of management theories.

Simplicity in taxation has considerable potential advantages.

By taking the long view on the evolution of this country's tax policies through the past few decades, Henrekson and Stenkula explain how Sweden developed the highest tax-to-GDP ratio in the world, until the beginning of the 2000s.

Leadership in Post-Colonial Africa examines the leadership concepts and lessons that emerged during and after the attainment of independence with insightful studies of Africa's first female presidents, gangster elitism, Nelson Mandela, and beyond.

Taken together, the chapters in this book represent a tapestry of leadership frameworks and cultures in colonial Africa.

The pursuit of sustainable development and smart growth is a main challenge today in countries around the world.

The Second Chinese Revolution explores some of the keys to understanding China, a country whose evolution already affects all of us.

Port Management brings together a collection of seminal papers from Palgrave's journal Maritime Economics and Logistics.

Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa examines the shortcomings of the economic development policies in the region before and after the Arab uprisings.

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

Human Capital in the Indian IT / BPO Industry analyses human capital management in the Indian information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, which has created a new paradigm for organising global talent engaged in designing and delivering IT and BPO services.

Managing Cultural Heritage explores managerial and governance issues within the cultural heritage sector, with particular regard to the ecomuseum.

This books analyses how transnational gas markets have evolved and impacted on EU-Russia energy relations.

ICTs in Developing Countries is a collection of conceptual and empirical works on the adoption and impacts of ICT use in developing societies.

This book explores the potential for policy reform as a short-term, low-cost way to sustainably enhance global food security.

The Handbook of Experiential Learning In International Business is a one-stop source for international managers, business educators and trainers who seek to either select and use an existing experiential learning project, or develop new projects and exercises of this kind.

Ageing populations are a major consideration for socio-economic development in the early twenty-first century.

Development Macroeconomics in Latin America and Mexico brings the attention of academics, practitioners, and policy makers to the neglected macroeconomic factors that can account for both the unsatisfactory average growth performance of Latin American and the diversity around this average.

This edited collection provides a thorough historical, statistical, and institutional description of the current Brazilian economy and the previous economic structure from which it is emerging.

Brazil is the most populous economy in Latin America with the second highest GDP among the emerging BRIC economies, after China, and the second per capita GDP among the BRIC economies after Russia.

The Arab region has become a hotbed of economic growth in recent decades.

Maritime Piracy and its Control develops an economic approach to the problem of modern-day maritime piracy with the goal of assessing the effectiveness of remedies aimed at reducing the incidence of piracy.

This book investigates hard work and new and expanding jobs in Europe.

The book deals with the key aspects of social and economic inequalities developed during the transition of the formerly planned European economies.

Social franchising represents a third generation form of franchising development, after trade-name and business-format franchising.

Both quantitative and qualitative analysis is used to review China's stock market in a book containing the latest research on China's IPO market, the 2006-07 market bubble, the development of institutional investors, the stock index futures market, stock sector performance, corporate governance of listed firms and China's growth enterprise market.

The study deals with challenging questions of long-term future of global economy and the mankind.

The production of beer today occurs within a bifurcated industrial structure.

The author narrates the end of the European crisis from the June 2012 European Council summit through the bailout of Cyprus.

This volume is both a tribute to and study of the French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi.

This study combines lessons drawn from events and experiences of developing countries and examines them in relation to Jan Kregel's ideas on economics and development.