International economics

This timely handbook provides a current and comprehensive examination of integrated reporting, both practical and research-based.

An expert on Chinas global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrows networks.

The current international investment law system is insufficiently compatible with sustainable development.

Using Africa as a context for research, new conceptual framing is proposed to make sense of the challenges of designing effective organizations to pursue socio-economic development.

This volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics includes selected papers from the 22nd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference in Rome.

Provides unique insights into how open trade interacts with other economic and social policies to tackle the challenges of globalization.

Khan presents a theory of financial crises in the age of globalization from an evolutionary perspective and suggests policies that may be necessary for averting or managing new financial crises.

Focusing on the issue of power as the main building block of relationships between business buyers and sellers, this book explains the complex nature of power with its multidimensional and multi-directional character.

Blue-collar job loss, immigration, trade deficits—Americans blame globalization for a host of problems.

Brazil is a globally vital but troubled economy.

The last few years have been "e;anni horribiles"e; for in International Economic Law in general and in particular for the World Trade Organization, since its inception in 1995 the guarantor of the world multilateral trade system.

This book, first published in 1989, examines the practice of international business in the Asia-Pacific region.

Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries.

This book sheds new light on the potential application of EU law to situations arising outside EU territory, and its consequences.

This volume contains eight empirical papers that examine corporate governance from a number of different perspectives.

The world is grappling to come up with alternative imaginations for transformation despite repeated crises, inequalities and immiseration caused by the increasing dominance of the neo-liberal capitalist framework and the collapse of twentieth-century socialist models.

The Definitive Guide to Doing Business in AfricaFor global and Africa-based companies looking to access new growth markets, Africa offers exciting opportunities to build large, profitable businesses.

China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 was a highly significant event both for China and for the wider world.

Originally published in 1992 and now with an updated Preface this book analyses the development of innovations using a network perspective.

Public-Private Partnerships aims to discover the conditions under which public private partnerships may provide a viable alternative to the provision of public services and infrastructures by the state, while achieving efficient, sustainable, peaceful, and equitable development in four transition countries: China, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.

Policy Space Conflicts in Global Trade Politics delves into the structure, driving forces and contemporary influencing factors of trade relations dynamics, providing insights into the present and future trajectories of the global trade order.

China emerged as the largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the fifth largest trading nation in the world in 2002.

This title was first published in 2001.

Much of the existing literature on multinational companies has been concerned with firms originating in the world's largest economies.

Essays on Money, Banking and Regulation honors the interests and achievements of the Dutch economist Conrad Oort.

Originally published in 1989.

First published in 1997, this volume emerged in the wake of China's Open Door policy.

China's economy, which continues to grow rapidly, is having an ever greater impact on the rest of the world.

Nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive sciences are contributing to the emergence of intelligent computers and robots with elements of artificial intelligence and intelligent machines.

This book offers an analysis of external dimensions of an emerging economy, India, in the backdrop of neoliberal globalisation.

Financial literacy and financial education are not new topics, even though interest in these topics among policymakers, financial authorities, and academics continues to grow.

This book explains how Amsterdam financiers played a much more important role in financing the Louisiana Cession than they are credited for.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the roles and strategies of subsidiaries of American multinational companies (MNCs) in Taiwan's IT industry.

This book focuses on the geo-economic and geopolitical impact of value chains transformation on the transport-logistic reintegration of continental Eurasian countries, with a specific focus on the members of the Eurasian Economic Union.

This book explores how economists operate effectively in financial markets.

Jan Qvigstad draws on his extensive experience in these six lectures on how central banks can make good policy decisions.

The failure of the dollar peg to prevent the Asian currency crisis of 1997 to 1998 has highlighted the importance of the exchange rate regime in Asia and provoked much discussion as to what the alternatives are in terms of exchange rate systems.

Originally published in 1997.

This volume brings together the results of the symposium on 'Economic Development under Prolonged Occupation' held at Oxford University in January 1986.

Traditional theories suggest that developing countries lack influence in the trade regime.

This book illustrates essential microeconomic concepts and theories through the examination of related policy formulation in Australia since the 1980s.

The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic world-wide view of the history of public relations.

First published in 1983, this book provides a detailed look at the OPEC nations' changing roles in the world oil market as they expanded their participation in "e;downstream"e; activities such as the hydrocarbon industries formerly controlled by the major oil companies.

This volume addresses various aspects of the microstructure of world trading markets and provides scientific evidence on the functioning of specific foreign markets.

This book analyses the emerging jurisprudence of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and seamlessly knits together all the disparate texts, policies and judicial decisions into a single, coherent resource.

This book is for people who want to know what to do with the money they save: so that it's there when they need it - to buy a home, pay for college, etc.