International economics

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

The global financial crisis that reached its peak in late 2008 has brought the importance of financial services regulation and supervision into the spotlight.

From West Indian sugar and bottles of Southeast Asian arrack to French red wines, English felt cloth, and Mediterranean lemons, many global wares ended up in the Scandinavian borderlands during the late eighteenth century.

The interaction of sustainability governance and global value chains has crucial implications the world over.

The rise of Asia, and China specifically, is the single most important force reshaping the world economy at the beginning of the 21st century.

This pioneering work examines Japan's economic activities in Singapore from 1870 to 1965.

Under the new world order, Japan's international business activity is being organised through tight networks that link banks, industrial corporations and trading companies and that are displacing onto Asia their main domestic problems.

Listing by companies from one country on the stock market of another country is a device often used both to raise capital in, and to increase bonding with, the target country.

This highly relevant study provides an incisive analysis of a critical phase in recent East Asian financial history, exploring the underlying causes of the financial crisis that struck Indonesia during the second half of 1997.

This book is a collection of contributions related to India-China relationship beyond the issue of borders.

This EYIEL Special Issue is devoted to the European Union's Trade Defence Instruments (TDIs).

This book is about the applicability of the high seas regime in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

If the plans concerning EMU will be realised, by 2002 national currencies will be replaced by the Euro and national central banks will be partially replaced by the European Central Bank.

Law in the Pursuit of Development critically explores the relationships between contemporary principles and practice in law and development.

Originally published in 1951, this book is a straightforward account of the British nationalized coal industry in the first half of the twentieth century.

A very commonly observed phenomenon in developing and emerging market economies is the use of another country's currency (whether the US dollar or another currency) in lieu or in addition to the local currency.

The 1970s are of particular relevance for understanding the socio-economic changes still shaping Western societies today.

Over the past two decades, China's robust economic performance has propelled it to the world stage.

This book provides perspectives on the relevance of European Studies as a disciplinary category for the Asian region.

This book focuses on rapprochement and normalisation between Israel and some Arab countries within the context of global and regional geopolitics, bringing together broader perspectives on transformations resulting from this.

This book, first published in 1970, analyses the factors affecting the export performance of selected firms from particular UK industries in the period 1958-66.

This book integrates three levels of political-economic analysis: first a comparative institutional analysis of the varieties of capitalism in both Europe and Asia, second a macroeconomic analysis of industrial structural change and economic dynamics of the national economies in Europe and Asia, and then an encompassing analysis of international production linkages and international financial instability which determine the long-term patterns of regional integration in Europe and Asia.

This title was first published in 2000: Steven Nivin analyzes a process vital to economic development - technological change.

New technology arguably provided the greatest challenge to industrial relations since the formation of unions.

This book takes a new look at the golden age in neoclassical growth theory and explores in detail sustainability and optimum growth in China, the US and Europe.

The debate over how far governments should intervene in economies in order to promote economic growth, a debate which from the 1980s seemed settled in favour of the neo-liberal, non-interventionist consensus, has taken on new vigour since the financial crisis of 2008 and after.

Free trade, indeed economic globalization generally, is under siege.

By the end of the nineteenth century Belgium was enjoying considerable economic success.

Live music events are synonymous with fun but seldom associated with international trade.

In the early modern period, trade became a truly global phenomenon.

No region in the world has seen so much development activity in the last ten years as the Gulf area.

This book presents research findings from across the global South that substantively improves our understanding of time-use, poverty and gender equalities, to shed light on why unpaid work is indispensable to economic analysis and effective policy making.

Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are considered the cheapest and fastest state-of-the-art services drawing international attention.

Examining institutions rather than themes, this critical book provides a comprehensive survey of the inter-relationship between trade-induced economic growth and the environment and its impact on the global quest for sustainable development.

This volume examines what industrial policies are, and what role they play in the context of European integration.

International in scope and written by a leading young Post-Keynesian economist, this book focuses on the working of money and payments in a multi-bank settlement system within which banks and non-bank financial institutions have been expanding their operations outside their countries of incorporation.

The concept of the One Belt One Road initiative (OBOR) was raised by the President of the People's Republic of China in October 2013.

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was launched amid great hopes and controversy in 1994.

This book comprehensively examines the financial and economic aspects of the 'sustainability transitions' demanded by the primary components of the European Green Deal.

Originally published in 1984, this volume examines the consequences of increasing energy prices on agricultural production.

Das Verständnis der Funktion und Wirkung internationaler Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ist gerade am global agierenden Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland von zentraler Bedeutung.

Located within the plantation economy model of the "e;New World Group"e; of The University of the West Indies, this book explores how the changes in the European Union's sugar regime impacted a sugar-dependent community in Jamaica.

The Economics of European Agriculture explains the demand and supply characteristics of agricultural markets, as well as government intervention in agriculture, with an emphasis on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

The analysis of the interactions between natural resourcescarcity, technological innovation and the dynamics of eco-nomic systems has a long-standing tradition in economics.

Why the dollar will remain the world's most powerful currencyMonetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy.

A Spiral Approach to Financial Mathematics lays a foundation of intuitive analysis of financial concepts early in the course, followed by a more detailed and nuanced treatment in later chapters.