Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Global Warring
How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
In a perfect storm, the environment, the global economic system and geopolitics are all undergoing rapid, uncontrolled change. In the same way that the climate is in a state of flux, exhibiting erratic behavior before settling into a new norm, in the wake of the global economic crisis, many of the...
North America in Question
Regional Integration in an Era of Economic Turbulence
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Can North America survive as a region in light of the political turbulence provoked by the global economic crisis? Or have regional integration and collaboration reached a plateau beyond which disintegration is likely? In North America in Question, leading analysts from Canada, the United States,...
Failure to Adjust
How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
*Updated edition with a new foreword on the Trump administration's trade policy*
The vast benefits promised by the supporters of globalization, and by their own government, have never materialized for many Americans. In Failure to Adjust Edward Alden provides a compelling history of the last...
Liberalism and the Welfare State
Economists and Arguments for the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The welfare state has, over the past forty years, come under increasing attack from liberals who consider comprehensive welfare provision inimical to liberalism. Yet, many of the architects of the post-World War II welfare states were liberals, many of whom were economists as much as socialists. Liberalism...
Governance and Foreign Investment in China, India, and Taiwan
Credibility, Flexibility, and International Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Yu Zheng challenges the idea that democracy is the prerequisite for developing countries to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and promote economic growth. He examines the relationship between political institutions and FDI through the use of cross-national analysis and case studies of three...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Global Standards of Market Civilization brings together leading scholars, representing a range of political views, to investigate how global 'standards of market civilization' have emerged, their justification, and their political, economic and social impact.
Key chapters show how as the modern...
Beyond Market Access for Economic Development
EU-Africa relations in transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
The Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries have drastically restructured Europe’s trade architecture towards the third world. This volume examines the consequences of EPAs for development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Starting...
Ethical Models and Applications of Globalization
Cultural, Socio-Political and Economic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Continued growth of the global market necessitates research that establishes norms and practices and ensures the appropriate level of ethical concern for those who contribute to the process of globalization and are being affected by globalization. Ethical Models and Applications of Globalization: Cultural,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Investment in Latin America is continuously developing in complex patterns due to the region’s increasing role in the global economy. The Handbook of Research on Economic Growth and Technological Change in Latin America helps readers to better understand the importance of Latin America in today’s...
Generational Poverty
An Economic Look at the Culture of the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Are the impoverished victims of circumstance or are they contributing to their situations through their own actions and principles? This perplexing question does not have a simple answer. "Generational Poverty: An Economic Look at the Culture of the Poor" examines both sides of the coin. Written...
Stories of Progressive Institutional Change
Challenges to the Neoliberal Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
This Palgrave Pivot presents a series of political economy short stories of collective agency, weaving together the history of a progressive change with a discussion of the role of institutions to effect change. These stories highlight sustained activism around valuing caring, ending discrimination,...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The Survey points out promising directions for reform, including strengthening government capacities for formulating and implementing national development strategies; doing more to ensure that official development assistance is aligned with national priorities; strengthening the international trade and...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Nothing short of a technological revolution on the scale of the first industrial revolution will be required to meet the challenge of sustainable development. Enormous improvements in human welfare have taken place over the past two centuries, but at a lasting cost of degradation of our natural environment....
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor updates the 2016 and 2017 GDP growth and inflation projections ADB's Pacific developing member countries. The theme of the policy briefs in this issue is Fisheries in Pacific Economies.