International economics

The book provides an understanding of how international trade and capital flows have engineered the development process in East Asia, and examines the real and potential challenges that the region is expect to encounter in the twenty-first century.

The research papers and cases in The Changing Dynamics of International Business in Africa provide multi-disciplinary insights on the opportunities and challenges of doing business in Africa, as well as on the changing competitive dynamics in the region, as Western, BRIC and African multinationals intensify their fight for market dominance.

The Balance of Payments Adjustment Process in Developing Countries deals with the manner in which the burden of adjustment to balance of payments disequilibrium in the 1970s was distributed between developed and developing countries.

Sir Roy Harrod was one of the foremost economists of the twentieth century who made pioneering contributions in several branches of economics including: trade cycle theory; growth theory; trade theory; monetary economics; imperfect competition theory, and methodology.

The dramatic story of Hitler and Stalin's marriage of convenience has been recounted frequently over the past 60 years, but with remarkably little consensus.

With contributions from international scholars, this second volume by Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Guzman comprises of theoretical, empirical, and policy-based chapters which carefully utilize theory and data analysis.

This book reflects the futuristic scientific view of the consequences of transition to Industry 4.

Capitalism has been an unprecedented engine of wealth creation for many centuries, leading to sustained productivity gains and long-term growth and lifting an increasing proportion of humanity out of poverty.

In a single volume, this book treats the theoretical, empirical, and case studies approaches to the implementation of monetary reforms and discusses specific countries' experiences with these approaches.

As the demand for environmental quality is increasing and as the current GATT rules monitored by the WTO are not very suitable for environmental protection, either a new international environmental organization may be formed soon or new environmental regulations may be added to GATT.

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.

Central and Eastern European countries are entering the development race at a crucial juncture in EU enlargement and the wider phenomenon of globalization.

Exploiting econometric techniques aimed at dealing with the dynamics of economic systems and the heterogeneity of agents performances, the volume integrates innovation-based reasoning with ex-post analyses, and presents ex-ante analyses able to evaluate the role of climate change policies by using computable general equilibrium models such as the Global Trade Analysis Project for Energy (GTAP-E).

This collection of essays offers critical perspectives on current issues in the international economy.

'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.

Understand growth disparities between OECD countries over the past twenty years through identification and analysis of underlying factors.

The United States, Canada and the New International Economic Order examines obstacles as well as opportunities associated with efforts to create a more equitable New International Economic Order (NIEO), with emphasis on the United States and Canada.

This is the first book to look at the European Union and single currency from the perspective of member-states.

This book explains the best practices of the UNCTAD & WTO for trade analysis to the R users community.

There can be no doubt that Japan remains unchallenged as the economic giant of the Pacific.

On the occasion of the 95th birthday of Helmut Schmidt, West German Chancellor 1974-1982, his biographer Hartmut Soell, Professor of History at Heidelberg University and former member of the German Parliament (1980-1994), presents H.

Sylvia Schroll-Machl writes about German cultural standards.

This book is the first to analyze Chile's salmon farming industry in discussing industrial development in terms of the management of public goods.

Industrial trade policy analysis of multi-country trade-theoretic framework within a Cournot oligopolistic interdependence in production.

This book looks at concerns in the EU about differences in company tax rates, exchange rate changes, and inflation differentials, building an analytical model which includes the finance decision of firms, particularly those decisions which have a strong tax component.

This book is an introduction to the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the economic community founded by Southeast Asian nations.

Entrepreneurs, technical experts, professionals, international students, writers, and artists are among the most highly mobile people in the global economy today.

Originally published in 1989.

The 'new economic geography' is one of the most significant developments to have occurred in economics in recent years.

This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary account of the events leading to the financial crisis, its institutional causes and consequences, its economic characteristics and its socio-political implications.

Which rules will shape globalization in the Twenty-first-century?

This book explores how law and policy makers within the Southern African Development Community regional structure might reform the legal and regulatory frameworks to best capitalise the benefits of the movement of people, drawing lessons from other experienced jurisdictions by critically engaging with the regulatory efforts and approaches in regions such as the European Union, the Economic Community of West African States, and the East African Community to propose a revised approach to migration governance and practice in the SADC.

Exposing a developing embryo or fetus to alcohol can produce life long brain damage with neurological, cognitive and behavioural consequences.

The Post-Washington Consensus has succeeded in becoming the new theoretical underpinning for the World Bank's Structural Adjustment policies in developing countries.

This book provides a broad overview of Professor Raimo Vayrynen's academic work, his role in international research organizations, and his contributions to policy debates.

Tanzi explores how foreign taxes on repatriated income should be treated; how profits, sales, and ownership of property should be allocated among countries; and to what degree various taxes should be coordinated.

Empire of Labortells the story of how hired workers experienced and responded to the rise to power over the long eighteenth century of the English East India Company (EIC), which perennially hired thousands of people in and around its settlements in Bengal.

This volume addresses profound issues in international economics, with contributions from leading researchers on the implications of trade.

This book explores the reasons behind Europe's poor performance in terms of overall growth and its progressively diminishing role in the global context.

This book explores how China-Brazil relations have been impacted by the oil-related bilateral trade, investments, infrastructure projects and financing - an increasingly consequential aspect of Sino-Brazilian relations, which sheds light on China's energy security concerns and its relationship with oil-rich countries more generally.

Economic globalisation is a long-term international process in which the roles of the EU, ASEAN, Korea, Japan and China are of increasing importance.

Against the background of the globalization of private finance, the predominance of states in global affairs cannot be taken for granted.

In an increasingly interdependent global economy, an understanding of foreign exchange markets is more critical than ever.

This book seeks to fill a gap in the existing literature by describing the formulation, interpretation and enforcement of the rules on consumer contracts in China and the EU, and by mapping key similarities and differences.

Transition Economies and Foreign Trade makes the bold claim to have solved puzzles that have hindered the subject for years.

Gender, Growth and Trade examines the role of women as a flexible, contingent workforce in Germany and Japan.

First Published in 1980, The Foundations of Nigeria's Financial Infrastructure presents a comprehensive overview of different aspects of Nigeria's financial developments.