Economics

This book follows up on the author's popular previous volume on Indian development planning and policy, published under the UNU WIDER series in development economics.

This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

This book represents a valuable contribution to the study of Asia-Latin America relations from the unprecedented collaboration of leading Latin American specialists of China, Japan, and Korea, representing views from their respective countries.

This research focuses on the process of growth in the automobile industries in the ASEAN region.

This book examines the characteristics of sustainable remote health workforces and how management practices influence workforce sustainability in remote regions.

This book thoroughly prepares intermediate-level readers for research in social science, organization studies, economics, finance, marketing science, and business science as complex adaptive systems.

This book argues that inequality of basic freedoms-economic, political, sociocultural-is a central cause of fragility and challenge to job creation in fragile geopolitical situations.

This report is a partial result of the China's Quarterly Macroeconomic Model (CQMM), a project developed and maintained by the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at Xiamen University.

This book provides a framework to understand the disregarded aspect of emerging market growth which is informal employment.

This book focuses on the Indonesian Financial Service Authority (FSA), which is a newly established authority within Indonesian financial services institutions that has emerged as the ultimate decision-maker for portfolio investment liberalization.

The book focuses on the different aspects of business in India required to be taken care of by any businessperson, especially a foreigner, willing to do business in India.

This book is the eighth volume in a series entitled "e;Contemporary Logistics in China,"e; authored by researchers from the Logistics Research Center at Nankai University.

This Brief sheds new light on three specific aspects of economic behavior - companies offering prize promotions, individuals making anonymous donations, and politicians creating political advertisements.

This report is a partial result of the China's Quarterly Macroeconometric Model (CQMM), a project developed and maintained by the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at Xiamen University.

This book summarizes Chinese banks' achievements in global markets and examines the differences between Chinese and foreign banks.

The book embarks on the tasks to systematically analyze the macro background of the spatial patterns of China's urban development, the theoretical foundations and framework, and its changing trajectory.

This volume examines the properties of statistics on household behavior in Japan.

This book highlights the importance of economic knowledge in government decision-making.

This book focuses on the gender-specific labour force participation rates across regions in India and identifies its most important determinants.

The book examines innovation in environment-friendly technologies in the automobile industry.

This study analyzes the impact of the revision of the Indian Patent Act (2005) on the Indian pharmaceutical industry, which has been achieving healthy growth over the past 30 to 40 years or more.

This book describes the status quo of space science in China, details the scientific questions to be addressed by the Chinese space science community in 2016-2030, and proposes key strategic goals, space science programs and missions, the roadmap and implementation approaches.

This book is intended as a textbook for a course in behavioral economics for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who have already learned basic economics.

This book highlights the application of Geographical Information System (GIS) and nature based algorithms to solve the problems of water and water based renewable energy resources.

This book is a quarterly forecast and analysis report on the Chinese economy.

This book is the first to cover the research of whole aspects of international mobility to and from Taiwan of both skilled and unskilled workers.

This book presents an integrated overview and evidence, taking Japan as an example, on how international trade, especially with developing countries, affects labor market in developed countries, which has been keenly debated among international and labor economists since the late 1980s.

This book presents scientific metrics and its applications for approaching scientific findings in the field of Physics, Economics and Scientometrics.

This book theoretically and empirically explores why Japanese banks engaged in seemingly contradictory behaviors in the 1990s, namely, the credit crunch and evergreening, i.

This book elucidates the economic conditions and policies during the post War Japanese economy from the view point of an influential policy maker.

By analyzing the status quo of the industrial economy, this book argues that the economic growth in China's industrial economy will continue to decline, with industries becoming segmented more rapidly, profitability slumping, and economic structures being adjusted further.

This book undertakes two main tasks.

This book focuses on Iran to explore the question of how the nature of industrial organizations and the whole system they constitute can exert a great influence on an industry's competitiveness and resilience.

This book investigates key developments in China's manufacturing industry from the perspectives of general evaluation, regional analysis, industrial analysis and enterprise analysis.

This book is the seventh volume in a series entitled "e;Contemporary Logistics in China,"e; authored by researchers from the Logistics Center at Nankai University.

This book empirically analyzes the vulnerability of poor households in rural areas of Mexico and the effects of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program called PROGRESA-Oportunidades by adopting the two most recent sets of rural household panel data for 2003-2007.

This book provides a critical review of the theory and practice of University Social Responsibility.

This book examines the nuances of the relationship between development and environmental conservation policy in India over the last three decades.

This book includes many cases that provide new perspectives in developing agent-based modeling and simulation.

This book is a quarterly forecast and analysis report on the Chinese economy.

Providing a fascinating insight into the factors that influence individual choices regarding eating habits, diet and other behavioral patterns relevant to obesity, this book offers a new perspective about the relationship of obesity to poverty and inequality.

This book aims to present implications for China's urban development through international comparison of urbanization process from the perspective of spatio-temporal pattern, driving factors, rural-urban interactions, development trends and economic-ecological-social synergic development.

This book offers a systematic investigation of the ecological and environmental issues related to the land cover changes in Nepal by researchers from both China and Nepal.

This book is devoted to fill the 'urban economics niche' and conceptualize a framework for valuing the urban configuration via local housing market.

This book is a quarterly forecast and analysis report on the Chinese economy.

This book presents narratives, perspectives and policies on the Arctic and brings to fore the strategies of five Asian countries - China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea and Singapore who were granted the status of Permanent Observers in the Arctic Council in 2013.

This book covers the broad spectrum of system dynamics methodologies for the modelling and simulation of complex systems: systems thinking, causal diagrams, systems structure of stock and flow diagrams, parameter estimation and tests for confidence building in system dynamics models.

This book, in contrast with previous research and popular discussions that focus on the productivity of workers, identifies the critical influence of supervisors and engineers as key drivers of productivity differentials.

This unique book develops an operational approach to preference and rationality as the author employs operators over binary relations to capture the concept of rationality.

This book provides readers a holistic and pragmatic approach towards supply management in China.