This book provides an enlightening comparative analysis of Japan's and Italy's political cultures and systems, economics, and international relations from World War II to the present day.
Giving voice to everyday people in Ireland, Redefining Irishness in a Globalized World: National Identity and European Integration covers crucial topics around notions of 'race', ethnicity, citizenship, inclusiveness, regionalism, global-local dynamics, migration, and governmentality.
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization.
This book analyses the reasons for relying on behavioural contraception methods among urban 'elites' in India and examines their efficacy in controlling fertility.
The book revisits the causes of persisting under nutrition in India, but moves away from the usual focus on women and children to a broader view of the entire population.
This edited contribution explores strategies and measures for leveraging the potential of skilled diasporas and for advancing knowledge-based evidence on return skilled migration and its impact on development.
There has been, of late, a growing realisation that the pace and pattern of economic development of a country can hardly be understood and explained comprehensively in terms of the straitjacket of economics discipline alone.
This book provides an analytical view of the successes and challenges encountered while creating the fast expanding rural sanitation movement in India, with a special focus on the last decade.
La originalidad de esta obra radica en las investigaciones realizadas en torno a la situación de la salud reproductiva en Haití, uno de los países con mayor rezago económico de la región latinoamericana y caribeña.
Los trabajos incluidos en este segundo volumen de la edición conmemorativa del XXX aniversario del Departamento de Estudios Regionales – INESER no se adhieren a un solo eje, se trata de colaboraciones en las que se muestran diferentes problemáticas concernientes a la población a pequeña y gran escala.
This book examines the trends, underlying factors, and policy implications of fertility declines in three East Asian countries: Japan, South Korea, and China.
This book, based on economics and game theory, analyzes the changes that Japan is now facing as a reflection of changes in Japanese families and society.
This book examines the trends, underlying factors, and policy implications of fertility declines in three East Asian countries: Japan, South Korea, and China.
This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an industrious revolution in the early modern period and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan since the eighteenth century, improving living standards and leading to the formation of the work ethic of modern Japan.
This is the book to focus on a new phenomenon emerging in the twenty-first century: the rapidly aging and decreasing population of a well-developed country, namely, Japan.
This book examines the contemporary state of the capitalist economyand its future trajectory in a world characterized by multiple crises from population growth to ecological damage.
Generationengerechtigkeit, Altersdiskriminierung und soziale Sicherheit sind Schlagworte einer demografischen Debatte, die nicht nur die Politik und Wissenschaft herausfordert, sondern auch in der Bevölkerung Sorgen und Ängste hervorruft.
Soziale Ungleichheit, Globalisierung und die demographische Entwicklung - allein diese drei globalen Trends eröffnen Perspektiven für eine Fülle von Themen.
