International economics

In this volume we collected some of the papers that were presented at the RIEB (The Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration) International Conference at Kobe University on March 25 and 26, 2000.

The global economy is currently going through a period of transformation that has seen Asia emerge as the most rapidly growing, industrializing and modernizing region in the world economy.

This book provides new insights for policy debates on how to strengthen the gains from trade for innovation through an inclusive trading environment that facilitates access to knowledge for all.

In the last ten years, while GATT and (later) WTO were actively advocating the doctrine of free trade, the world witnessed unprecedented formation of regional trading blocs.

This book explains the political background and describes the decision-making leading to European Monetary Union, as seen by a former central banker who participated in the process during more than two decades.

This book examines China's response to the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, and the resulting new status acquired by China within the international economy.

This book intends to inform the key participants in extractive projects - namely, the communities, the host governments and the investors - about good practice for effective community engagement, based on analysis of international standards and expectations, lessons from selected case-studies and innovations in public participation.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) oversees the negotiation and enforcement of formal rules governing international trade.

This volume examines the interaction between private and public institutions in the trade policy-making process of eight Latin American countries and trade bargaining in sub-regional, hemispheric and multilateral fora.

This new edition of An Economic History of Early Modern India extends the timespan of the analysis to incorporate further research.

By analyzing venture capital industries, this book substantially adds to the understanding of Europe's venture capital industries.

This textbook covers the essential areas of real and monetary foreign-trade theory.

As a book on public policy, this book is unique in addressing explicitly the role of human nature.

This book describes and assesses an emerging threat to states' territorial control and sovereignty: the hostile control of companies that carry out privatized aspects of sovereign authority.

With a combined population larger than that of the EU or NAFTA, economic integration of the ASEAN states will have a massive impact on both the Asian and global economies.

The emergence of large trade imbalances among the industrial countries during the 1980s-particularly the massive deficit of the United States and the surpluses of Germany and Japan-has led to growing disenchantment with the international economic system.

The Russian State and Russian Energy Companies analyses the development of relations between the state and five major energy companies, and how this shaped Russia's foreign policy in the post-Soviet region.

The Thai Economy examines the origins and consequences of the Thai economy's accelerated growth since the mid-1980s.

This book considers foreign investment flows in major Asian economies.

The success of an economy to adapt quickly, flexibly, and effectively to the demands of the changing international economic environment can only be investigated using the achievements of other national economies or regions as a benchmark.

In a world increasingly organised as networks of cities, this book offers the first full-length treatment of the subject of managing the city economy.

Independently commissioned by IAI, the three studies comprising this book examine inter-Arab industrial and economic cooperation.

In this book the author reflects on the philosophical and ethical bases of the financial crisis 2007-08 and the subsequent recession.

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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) were designed to strengthen investor's rights at the expense of community rights and environmental protection.

Bitcoin isn't just for criminals, speculators, or wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs - despite what the headlines say.

Few recent phenomena have proved as emblematic of our era, and as little understood, as globalization.

This research work is to commemorate all Guos' ancestor, who guarded the border for his Majesty dutifully, and who is the foremost supporter in my academic career.

A valuable guide to a successful career as a statistician A Career in Statistics: Beyond the Numbers prepares readers for careers in statistics by emphasizing essential concepts and practices beyond the technical tools provided in standard courses and texts.

This book reviews banking internationalization by considering the new paradigms of globalization.

This book analyzes how neo-liberal state economic policies and political reforms have impacted on state-society relations, economic and class configurations, social composition of power, social welfare and cohesion in post-military Nigeria; and points to key policy recommendations that may be crucial in redirecting the future of the country.

This book, formed as a series of essays in honour of Professor Carl Baudenbacher, addresses the very art of judicial reasoning, and features contributions from many of the foremost current or former national, supranational, or international judges.

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With EU legislation, the increasing reach of the US economy, greater flexibility of financial instruments, and M&A activity across borders, financial markets are becoming ever more international.

This book examines the subtle ways in which rhetorics of sacrifice have been re-appropriated into the workings of the global political economy in the 21st century.

This book argues that mainstream economics cannot explain the underdevelopment and poverty of Nepal, neither can it be explained in terms of economics alone nor capital inadequacy even, as is conventionally believed.

From afar, Latin America looks like a blurry tableau: devoid of defining lines, particularities and nuances.

Economic Trends in Soviet Russia (1930) examines the economic position of the USSR a decade after the Revolution.

The traditional role of evolutionary theory in the social sciences has been to explain the existence of an object in terms of the survival of the fittest.

If you want to enjoy a full perspective of China, you cannot merely read books that criticize China.

This proceedings volume contains research trends, issues and developments in global economics and management with particular focus on the digital postindustrial economy-Economy 4.

This book, first published in 1928, was written at a time when the tendency in industry was towards the formation of large combines.

The book deals with cases about the impact of, and interaction between, the different Latin American cultural, economic, legal, and political settings on activities, strategies, structures and decision-making processes of MNCs.

Originally published in 1991 this book provides a multi-faceted analysis of German unemployment between 1873 and 1913.