This pioneering work aims at understanding the impact of non-standard (evening, night, weekend) working time on family cohesion, meaning parent-child interaction, partnership quality and divorce or partnership dissolution.
Developing countries have for many decades waged a campaign for the global regulation of trade in primary products through international commodity agreements.
Since the 1970s, neoliberalism has evolved from ideology to political programme, from political programme to public policy, and from public policy to constitutional rule.
The overall aim of this volume is to present the research studies carried out in the Middle East and Asia in the fields of culture and gender and their influence on leadership in particular.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of South-South regional trade issues, with a particular focus on sustainably fostering Africa's regional trade agenda.
This book presents articles that focus on the inter-related issues of choice of exchange rate and monetary policy regimes, and others that use a global macroeconomic model developed by the author and collaborators to quantify the effects of the 'baby boom' on global imbalances, costs of disinflation, and the effects of German unification.
The book examines various aspects of Africa's external economy by focusing on regional monetary arrangements and how they are affected by devaluation episodes.
This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of multi-party politics and ethnic federalism in 1991.
Balancing provocative criticism with clear explanations of complex ideas, this student-friendly introduction investigates the crucial role global entertainment media has played in the emergence of transitional capitalism.
This book focuses on the international financial problems of developing countries and the ways in which international financial policy might be used to alleviate them.
Negotiations on trade facilitation were concluded at the WTO 9th Ministerial Conference in 2013, and the Agreements on Trade Facilitation (TFA), therefore, became the first fully multilateral agreement in WTO history.
Focusing on the Global Financial Crisis 2007-2010 and the new emerging Covid-19 crisis in 2020, this book examines the discourse on risk and uncertainty in the markets through the lens of financial crises.
This book examines the work of the World Trade Organization (WTO), with a focus on the capacity of its judiciary to strike a reasoned balance between free trade in biotechnology and biosafety as to promote the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals.
This book is about promising collaborative avenues for connecting Finland and India with value propositions for enterprises, consumers and investors worldwide.
This collection of essays presents insight and methodology that are highly relevant for readers today as they consider the future of the world they live in.
The edited volume on "e;The Role of Institutional Investors in a Globalized Environment"e; will publish original papers that examine various issues concerning the strategies of institutional investors, the role of institutional investors in corporate governance, their impact on local and international capital markets, as well as the emergence of sovereign and other asset management funds and their interactions with micro and macro economic and market environments including the impacts on international economic and market stability.
The face of development has changed, with diverse stakeholders involved - and implicated - in what are more and more seen as global and interlinked concerns.
This textbook places the relationship between law and economics in its international context, explaining the fundamentals of this increasingly important area of teaching and research in an accessible and straightforward manner.
This book provides a valuable compendium of annual indices and rankings of cost of living for expatriates and cost of living, wages and purchasing power for ordinary residents in 105 world's major cities over the period 2005-2015.
This textbook presents all major topics in international monetary theory, foreign exchange markets, international financial management and investment analysis.
Modern developed nations are rich and politically stable in part because their citizens are free to form organizations and have access to the relevant legal resources.
This book examines the relationship between flexible regional economic integration in the East African Community (EAC), through its application of variable geometry, and the establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as a continent-wide form of integration.
Möglichkeiten und Restriktionen einer grenzüberschreitenden europäischen Regionalisierungspolitik werden am Beispiel der Großregion SaarLorLux in diesem Sammelband erörtert.
Ana-Maria Iulia Şanta erforscht in diesem Buch die neuesten Entwicklungen in der Energiepolitik auf der Ebene der Europäischen Union im internationalen Kontext der Förderung von Nachhaltigkeit.
The traditional flow of goods from primary production through to manufacturing and consumption has expanded across international borders conterminously with globalization.