International economics

China faces significant hurdles in implementing its Belt and Road Initiative.

The different approach taken by China and the West towards finance and the real economy rests upon philosophical foundations that have diverged fundamentally since the Ancient World.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of "e;Mega-Regionals"e;, the new generation of trans-regional free-trade agreements (FTAs) currently under negotiation, and their effect on the future of international economic law.

This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions.

Based on original fieldwork including interviews held with Japanese officials, this text provides important new insight into Japan and East Asian relations, principally through the close examination of changes in Japan's regional policy.

Floro Ernesto Caroleo and Francesco Pastore This book was conceived to collect selected essays presented at the session on "e;The Labour Market Impact of the European Union Enlargements.

This is the first of five volumes reporting on the UNU-WIDER study on New Regionalism.

Growth miracles typically have been studied at the country level.

This handbook examines ethics in finance responses to the main challenges in finance, accounting and organizations in the 21st century.

Reforms and Economic Transformation in India is the second volume in the series Studies in Indian Economic Policies.

The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and informal work.

Since the 1990s, several emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have, to varying degrees, embraced the process of financial globalisation, broadly defined as a set of policies that involve allowing for greater openness to cross-border capital flows as well as greater market access to foreign financial institutions.

This broad-ranging student textbook examines the rise of the Asia-Pacific as an important economic region.

How globalized information networks can be used for strategic advantageUntil recently, globalization was viewed, on balance, as an inherently good thing that would benefit people and societies nearly everywhere.

Agriculture is at the centre of the economies of many developing countries, and its stagnation and poor performance across large parts of Africa is a major cause for concern.

There is a great deal of coverage on inequality, and the key determinants of recent trends are increasingly well-documented.

The Second Five-Year Plan of the Development of the U.

This book highlights the inducements, advantages and obstacles faced by enterprises in the development of a sourcing channel in China.

This volume presents advanced quantitative methods and applications in economics with special interest in macroeconomics, microeconomics, financial economics, international economics, agricultural economics, and marketing and management.

It is often assumed that deindustrialization is a bad thing, confined to the Global North, and caused by cheap imports from the Global South.

This is the first text to provide a comprehensive rule-by-rule commentary of the inception, interpretation, and application of the SIAC Rules, written by practitioners with extensive experience in South East Asia arbitrations .

How a country competes in the world is the crucial factor in determining that country's ability to benefit from international trade in today's global economy.

For economists, policy-makers, and historians who want to learn how the Korean labor market dealt with the 1997 financial crisis and how this informed future policies, this volume provides a succinct summary of what Korean experts know and how they view the problems the country must overcome to continue on its road to the top rungs of economic success.

Recently, there have been public concerns about the impact of emerging market multinationals.

This book addresses the economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on Central and East European countries and examines the effect the pandemic has had on organizations in the region.

This book merges macro- and micro-level analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to dissect China's aim in creating an integrated Eurasian continent through this single mega-project.

This book explains the macro-drivers of growth behind the economic development of Bangladesh.

This book discusses trade relations and facilitation issues at both the regional and the continental African level, highlighting the increasing business opportunities and challenges that confront Africa in the digital age.

This fully updated third edition analyzes the media industries and their activities from macro to micro levels, using concepts and theories to demonstrate the role the media plays in the economy as a whole.

This book compares the different expressions of, and outcomes from, banking nationalism in two European countries to draw wider conclusions about the consequences for Banking Union in Europe and to show how national governments deal (or fail to deal) with international commitments.

The recent financial crisis, rooted in the United States, has changed the world's economic and financial structures.

A detailed examination of the GATT regime for international trade, discussing the negotiating record, policy background, economic rationale, and case law.

First published in 1975, the main emphasis of this reissued collection is on the various aspects of dependence to which small countries as such are subject, and the policy options in the political and economic field which are open to them.

China's rapid and sustained growth over last thirty years has propelled it to become the world's second largest economy today and potentially the largest in the foreseeable future.

Certain key economic decisions taken by organizations and indeed countries are often not made by economists but by businessmen, trade unionists, politicians and policy-makers.

Originally published in 1981, this book analyses how development aid works in practice.

This book marries the disciplines of International Relations and Diplomatic History to provide a major new study of the GATT system in the 1960s.

The primary questions addressed by this study, first published in 1988, focus on how private bankers made decisions on the creditworthiness of developing countries during the 1970s and what the implications of these decision rules are for the developing countries today.

As evidenced by the yellow vests protest movement that began in France in 2018, the state of the French nation inspires gloom among many of its citizens.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

This book presents a comprehensive, systematic analysis of Russia- Iran relations in the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

'It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other non-wage labourers as slaves, contract workers and peasants in the colonies - constitutes the perennial basis upon which "e;capitalist productive labour"e; can be built up and exploited.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the palm oil export market, including analysis of its current challenges and move towards sustainability.

Notwithstanding financial crises, global foreign exchange markets have undergone a tremendous growth during the last two decades.

This book reports on a fundamental economic policy shift in transition and developing countries after the mid-1980s.

This textbook begins by introducing the concept of the time value of money and explaining how it is applied in valuation.