International economics

This book is one of the first historical revisions of the Latin American debt crisis of 1982, exploring recently disclosed archival sources for a number of creditor and debtor institutions.

In the past three decades, China has successfully transformed itself from an extremely poor economy to the world's second largest economy.

American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a serious threat to U.

This book is the one of the first to address aid effectiveness as a political and comparative economics question.

This volume is the outgrowth of a conference held at Peking University in May 2002, jointly sponsored by the American Committee on Asian Economic Studies, the Peking University School of Economics, and the China Reform Forum.

This book is unique in covering all important topics of the Chinese economy in depth but written in a language understandable to the layman and yet challenging to the expert.

On its 30th anniversary in 2004 responsibility for hosting the G8 Summit fell into the hands of an allegedly unilateralist America.

This book focuses on the impact of political leaders on the integration process led by the European Union.

Japan's economy and businesses are entering this century with new management systems but their values unchanged.

This book focuses on international harmonisation and the law of secured transactions by distilling and analysing the unifying principles of various significant international conventions and instruments such as the UN Convention on the Assignment of Receivables, the Unidroit Convention on International Factoring, the EBRD Model Law on Secured Transactions, the Unidroit Convention on the International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions.

Since its independence in 1951, Libya has experienced rapid economic and social change.

This volume is a collection of papers that apply general equilibrium theory in order to obtain policy relevant insights on topical issues of international trade and migration.

Globalization is a phenomenon which has attracted much attention in the past, but there are still many questions that remain unanswered.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the effects that foreign direct investment into China has had on the productivity, exporting activity, and innovation of Chinese domestic firms, as well as on the nation's labor markets.

Comprising a collection of selected research papers, this book discusses the challenges related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

When this book was first published in 1973 there had been little study of the relationships between the organizational structures of public bodies and their use of information technology.

The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have been through a profound transition process for more than a decade now.

Based on extensive original research in the Republic of Tatarstan, in the Central Volga region of Russia, this book examines the economic development path followed by Tatarstan since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Russian financial crash of 1998.

This book approaches economic sanctions as a form of statecraft in order to better study the oft used but not well understood policy.

The creation of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and the start of the Euro in 1999 are historical marks for Europe.

This book provides a fully revised and up-to-date analysis of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

First published in 1991, during a significant stagnation in the Israeli economy, this title discusses the causes of the economic downturn, and assesses the country's prospects.

Das vorliegende Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Bedeutung der Regionen für die europäische Integration.

In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is making economic growth and increased productivity the main goals of schools, and the ways these goals are achieved-including measuring educational policies by their costs and economic benefits, shaping family life to ensure productive workers and high-achieving students, introducing entrepreneurship education into curricula from preschool through higher education, and increasing the involvement of economists in educational policy analysis.

This book is a review on the economic theories of systemic risks in the financial market and the topics in constructing the macroprudential framework for banking regulation in the future.

Russia is a major economy and important power in the global political-economic landscape.

The Sunday Times BestsellerSHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2025 - Specialist Business BookFintech touches every part of our lives, from cashless economies to crypto, and even our climate.

Reaching past the secrecy so often met in arbitration, the second edition of this commentary explains clearly and fully the workings of the UNCITRAL Rules of Arbitral Procedure recommended for use in 1976 by the United Nations.

The objective of this book is to provide an understanding of the economy with its nature and structure, dominance of unorganized sector, natural resources, economic and social infrastructure, demographic features, poverty, unemployment, inequality, national income, saving and investment, role of noneconomic factors, and sources of data.

Modern money, having now become a key tool of government economic policy and a source of massive tax revenues, has strayed far from its original purpose.

Port Management brings together a collection of seminal papers from Palgrave's journal Maritime Economics and Logistics.

This book focuses on international relations in the Indian Ocean region and examines bilateral and multilateral relations in the Indo-Pacific region.

This book offers the reader a state-of-the-art overview on theory and empirics of business cycle synchronisation, structural reform and economic integration.

This book provides an intensive review of the economic competitiveness of the Singapore economy and identifies the strategies which will allow the economy to retain its competitive advantage in an increasingly globalised economic environment in future years.

This book scrutinizes the role of Hong Kong in the expansive, and contested, vision of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Until 1973 few people, either in the advanced, industrial countries or in the developing countries of the Third World, thought seriously on the issues and complexities involved in the production and marketing of the oil on which they relied.

First published in 1998, this volume focuses on the special category of countries popularly referred to as 'transition economies' through an analysis of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and their role in Asian economies, with a view to assessing whether they could or should provide a model for African countries.

International trade theory implicitly assumes that countries participating in external trade each have sovereign status.

The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises.

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This volume offers a collection of articles by leading legal and political theorists.

An accessible introduction to multimodal contracts of carriage, Multimodal Transport Law works from general principles toward specific, technical problems.

This book further develops both the traditional and the behavioural approach to competition law, and applies these approaches to a variety of timely issues.

First published in 1921, this book is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of economics to beginners, with only the more intricate and controversial subjects - such as economic rent - being omitted for the sake of clarity.

This book explores the role of national fiscal policies in a selected group of Euro-area countries under the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the changes and development of the civil international aircraft/aviation industry.