International Economics category: 4483 books
Cultural Differences and Economic Globalization
Effects on trade, foreign direct investment, and migration
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Economic globalization is the process of increased integration among nations, characterized and fostered by three elements of international trade- goods and services, international capital flows, and international migration. In recent decades, international economic integration has increased both...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Before the recent Ukrainian crisis, Russia was one of the main sources of foreign direct investment (FDI) outflow and one of the main targets of FDI inflow in the world. However, the events in the Ukraine, the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union, and China’s growing interest in the Russian...
Declining International Cooperation on Pesticide Regulation
Frittering Away Food Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This Palgrave Pivot investigates barriers to international agricultural trade caused by a lack of standardized maximum residue levels (MRL) for pesticides. Given the preponderance of pesticide use in food production and the increasing disruptions to trade, a better understanding of the reasons for...
Why Save the Bankers?
And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Reflections on politics, the economy, and the modern world by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Thomas Piketty’s work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality, and that without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Global Economics
Understand the Financial Forces That Drive Our World—and Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Think outside the borders.
Global economics affects every aspect of our lives. Free trade agreements, tariffs, terrorism, trade deficits, international debt, global warming, OPEC, outsourcing, and sweat shops are just some of the forces driving our world, food supply, jobs, and future. The...
by John Gilbert, Edward Tower
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This volume provides a practical guide to building and using simulation models for international trade theory and policy. Through a sequence of carefully constructed and fully documented programs, the volume illustrates how numerical simulation can be used to analyze a wide array of problems. Modern...
International Finance
A Survey
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Understanding the current state of affairs and tools available in the study of international finance is increasingly important as few areas in finance can be divorced completely from international issues. International Finance reflects the new diversity of interest in international finance by bringing...
Paradigm Theory & Policy Making
Reconfiguring the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
A review of clashes between global and local economics, reveals a new insight for anticipating the economic future.
Paradigm Theory and Policy Making is a wideranging and thoughtprovoking treatise on the forces that have shaped the political economies of the developed and developing world...
by International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
'Africa: Making Its Move' explores some of the obstacles facing sub-Saharan Africa as it attempts to capitalize on changes that offer fresh opportunities for growth and poverty reduction. The lead article describes the changes and suggests how Africa can build on them to progress further. Other articles...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The 1997–8 Asian financial crisis exposed weaknesses in the region’s national financial systems, but since then East Asia has become the world’s most dynamic economic region. Domestic financial systems have developed, cross-border financial flows within the region are growing apace as demand...
The Preparation of Monetary Policy
Essays on a Multi-Model Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Standard macroeconomic monographs often discuss the mechanism of monetary transmission, usually ending by highlighting the complexities and uncertainties involved in this mechanism. Conversely, The Preparation of Monetary Policy takes these uncertainties as a starting point, analytically investigating...
A Critical History of Financial Crises
Why Would Politicians and Regulators Spoil Financial Giants?
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
We are pleased to announce that A Critical History of Financial Crises has been included in CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Title list. Only the most outstanding works have been selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to...
by International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
'Global Governance: Who's in Charge?' examines the challenges—financial, health, environmental, and trade—facing the international community in the 21st century and asks whether today';s system of global governance is equipped to cope with them. The lead article asserts that the system that served...
by Ferdinand E. Banks
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Originally published in 1987 this book presents a comprehensive survey of the global natural gas industry: it looks at the problems of supply, the pattern of demand, the economics of the industrya nd how the industry in the 1980s was being affected by changes in other energy sectors. As a key commodity...