International economics

Brexit represents a momentous event for the European Union, with important implications on the future of Europe.

This book examines selected actions and investments of the European Central Bank (ECB) from a climate and sustainability standpoint.

In 150 years Italy transformed itself from a poor and backward country into one where living standards are among the highest in the world.

This book provides a detailed examination of the core areas of commercial law in common law jurisdictions across a range of South Pacific countries: Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Niue, Nauru, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

This new edition of bestselling textbook Introducing Property Valuation provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and methods of valuing real estate, helping them to progress successfully from basic principles to a more sophisticated understanding.

Too many of the world's citizens face impoverished living standards.

The remarkable rise of China over the past three decades has been unprecedented in both its scale and speed.

This volume presents a broad sweep of modern economic history underpinning aid, trade, development and globalization in the last half century and the salient challenges facing the global community today.

This book presents the legal and political factors determining international relations, including the processes of integration in all their complexity.

For the last 60 years, Saudi Arabia has assumed a vital economic role and has been situated on the center stage of the global economic and political scene.

"e;Banking Sector Liberalization in India"e; explores in detail the changes in the Indian banking sector over the last 20 years, and puts them into a comparative perspective with the Chinese banking sector.

This book highlights the role of global networks, lean and green production methods, customized quality versus price competitiveness, online outreach along with showroom access, labor issues, and related factors that continue to compel location shifts and extensions of the furniture industry.

This book is the first to clarify the essential meaning and serious impact of globalization at the most abstract level from the point of view of Polanyi's three socioeconomic principles of exchange, reciprocity and redistribution.

This timely and highly relevant book refocuses the discussion on supply chain innovation for an era of unprecedented challenges and opportunities in global supply chain operations.

International Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy offers phenomenal coverage across the entire subject of international macroeconoimics in an open economy context.

This book presents an innovative analysis of the solidarity/social economy among low-income religious women in Iran.

Foreign investors often sustain injuries during violent situations, such as riots, revolutions, civil wars, and international armed conflicts.

This book is a collection of working papers, policy briefs and training modules, published by the International Poverty Centre in Brazil, which provides a comprehensives set of recommendations for alternative economic policies that can generate growth, employment and poverty reduction in developing countries.

This book discusses the economics of transport infrastructure and the economic theorizing around transport infrastructure from 1850 to today.

Participation in risk and reward, as an alternate to conventional risk-transfer finance, is important for achieving the higher ethical objectives of Islamic finance, called maqasid al shariah, and responsible finance in general.

Peter Ashford provides a practical guide to the most common feature of international arbitration around the world.

This book highlights the role of global networks, lean and green production methods, customized quality versus price competitiveness, online outreach along with showroom access, labor issues, and related factors that continue to compel location shifts and extensions of the furniture industry.

The whirlwind of financial globalization has descended upon emerging market economies and rapid change has brought both benefits and problems upon a dynamic group of nations.

In this volume, leading economists assess India''s economic performance, policies and institutions.

Global financial markets have transformed over the past three decades - with potentially dangerous results.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

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.

Researchers in international development have long argued that the high costs of doing business harms prosperity in developing countries, a claim that invites the question of why governments impose these costs and why societies fail to enact reforms reducing them.

In the last three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a vast amount of study looking at transforming the planned economy to a market economy from both theoretical and empirical aspects.

In the past two decades, several millions of IT-enabled services jobs have been relocated or 'offshored' from the US and Europe to, in particular, low cost economies around the world.

The last three decades has witnessed miraculous economic growth of China.

This highly topical book brings together some of the world's leading specialists on the global car industry who discuss the ins and outs of the faster lane of regionalism at a time that the world is reassessing the ins and outs of globalization.

The current global financial crisis has raised awareness of the impact the world of finance has on the economy and the future of democracy.

This book considers the issue of biodiversity in developing countries in relation to intellectual-property rights, community rights and human rights.

The concern of this volume is to explain why in some countries the relative decline in imports was smaller than the relative decline in exports, while in others it was greater, and why it was much smaller, or much greater, in some countries than in others, in the period following the Second World War.

Delays in approving genetically modified crops and foods in the European Union have led to a high profile trade conflict with the United States.

The announcement by China that it will implement a national emissions trading scheme confirms the status of this instrument as the pre-eminent policy choice for mitigating climate change.

Reports work done thus far to identify improvements to the interpretation of the WTO Agreement based on a project led by the American Law Institute.

This book analyzes and assesses corporate restructuring and governance in transition countries focusing on the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Russia.

Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of global economic governance.

This valuable book provides a much-needed integration of fundamental analysis of global forces and technical analysis to provide highly probable trades in currency markets.

This book provides expert advice on the practical implementation of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and systematically analyses its various provisions.

In this 2003 text, experts analyse the second monopolistic competition revolution on the modeling of imperfectly competitive markets.

This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism as it unfolded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and through the turbulent 2010s.

In a more contentious world economy, where trade and finance are increasingly interlinked with economic security and geopolitical considerations, questions arise about the underpinnings of the US dollar's global leadership.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of both national and regional trade facilitation capacities, issues, challenges and lessons, with a special interest in sustainably advancing West Africa's regional trade facilitation agenda.

One of the major obstacles unions face in building influence in the workplace is the opposition and resistance from those that own those workplaces, namely, the employers.

The Asian financial crisis has grown and spread.