International economics

Lack of credit access is severe in low income and poor families that are normally considered to have fewer opportunities to borrow from banks due to insufficient valuable assets for collateral.

This book analyzes the use of the mobile Internet against the background of gender bias and Covid-19, currently two of the most important and pressing problems of the Global South.

Originally published in 1992 this book charts the global restructuring of telecommunications industries away from the monopoly structures of the past towards increased competition, deregulation and privatization.

Launched in 1991, the Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective, under the auspices of the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia (DILA).

A guide to the ins and outs of international commodity markets.

Agricultural Co-operation in the Soviet Union (1929) examines agriculture in the USSR as the government was restructuring all national economic life and enterprise on a state socialist basis.

This book is for people who want to understand modern trade theory, particularly the Melitz model.

This book focuses on Japan's recent recovery from a decade-long stagnation, with particular attention to the unfinished policy agenda and the international spillovers of Japan's policies, through background studies (both analytical and descriptive) by IMF economists.

This book explores the role of trade remedies in liberalising environmental trade and discouraging environmentally harmful trade.

This book, a comprehensive study of twelve of the economies of key countries of the Arab world, has three main objectives: to record the developmental achievements and failings of each country; to examine the main issues arising in the drive for development; and to assess the future outlook for development for each country.

This book is a guide to claims about the proper role of government and markets in a global economy.

This book offers theoretical arguments and original empirical data on the legitimacy of the investor-state dispute settlement system in the eyes of the general public.

This book examines the politics of technology, and provides a detailed analysis of developments and debates within the European Union, international trade and governance.

The implementation of new technologies is expected to boost the development of Islamic Finance by increasing accessibility to banking and other financial services in Islamic communities and democratizing access to investment opportunities.

The Role of Crises in Shaping Financial Systems: From the Global Financial Crisis to COVID-19 underscores the role of crises as turning points for the financial sector and its interactions with the real economy.

This book presents a case for a basic reorientation of International Relations away from the state and towards the study of social institutions in the sense of patterned practices, ideas and norms/rules.

This volume is the first to show the influence that culture has on the success of TQM, and uses the case of Chinese companies operating in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to support the assertion that culture has a greater effect on TQM than has been previously acknowledged.

Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world.

The liberal-democratic world order is confronting the rise of authoritarian state-led corporate interventions.

Latin America has been a complex laboratory for the development of international investment law.

The second volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) focuses on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), which was signed 40 years ago.

oil is the lifeblood of the World's economy.

This volume provides comprehensive chapter-by-chapter assessment of one of the world''s most important regional trade agreements, the TPP/CPTPP.

When countries try to navigate through the aftermath of conflict, trust is the main focus and the catalyst for rebuilding societies, nations, economies and democracies.

Which forms of company cooperation are open to cultural scientists and what can western universities and companies learn from current concepts in Eastern Europe?

Ever since the Great Recession, the global financial regulatory system has undergone significant changes.

This book offers a novel understanding of money by moving away from the dominant lens of economics through which it is usually seen.

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

Leading scholars consider the key issues relating to China''s recent WTO accession.

The Sino-Russian relationship has experienced several permutations in recent decades as both states have undergone radical domestic changes, including the end of Soviet communism and the abandonment of Maoism.

This book considers the transformative impact of global trade and production networks on local economies, work and labour organization, and various forms and meanings of 'community'.

This book analyses the most recent trends in Foreign Direct Investment from the major Asian economies to the EU, focusing on China and Japan's FDIs in the EU, and Poland in particular.

The stagnation of the Japanese economy and the ageing of Japanese society has led to major changes in the labour market in Japan.

This book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of EU regional cohesion based on a network and clusters approach.

This set reprints volumes 1, 2 and 3 of James Bowen's A History of Western Education originally published by Methuen in the 1970s.

The updated edition of journalist Ted C.

In response to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and international institutions took steps to contain the harmful consequences on citizens' lives and health, as well as the economy.

Latin America: It's Future in the Global Economy is a timely contribution to the effort to meet the complex challenges entailed in Latin America's increasing participation in world markets.

Financial authorities face a number of key challenges, including maintaining financial stability; ensuring long-term finance for stable economic growth; promoting greater access to financial services for both households and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and fostering a competitive financial industry.

This book provides a detailed account of the political economy around investment deal negotiations between African governments and private Chinese investors.

As the end of the century approaches, the Asian-Pacific region is becoming the most important economic area in the world.

An incisive history of the changing relationship between democracy and capitalismThe twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections.

This focused case study analyses the roots of super-diversity in a place where immigration is an emerging phenomenon, Northwestern Spain (Galicia).

This book systematically discusses the contribution of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to China's transition from an emerging to an advanced economic and financial system after more than five years.