International Economics category: 4483 books
Key Facts on Kuwait
Essential Information on Kuwait
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Learn everything you need to about the Emirate of Kuwait! The Key Facts on Kuwait provides readers with essential statistical and business information on the Middle Eastern nation, including:
-Background of Kuwait -Geography of Kuwait -People and Society of Kuwait -Government and Key Leaders...
Central Banking after the Great Recession
Lessons Learned, Challenges Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The global financial crisis is largely behind us, but the challenges it poses to the future stability of the world's economic system affects everyone from American families to Main Street businesses to Wall Street financial powerhouses. It has provoked controversy over the best way to reduce the risk...
by Jean Pisani-Ferry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises. The eruption of the Greek crisis in 2010 took European policymakers by surprise and forced them to design responses to a quickly deteriorating situation. Even though Europe has final...
The Contemporary Global Economy
A History since 1980
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
The Contemporary Global Economy provides a lively overview of recent turbulence in the world economy, focusing on the dynamics of globalization since the 1980s. It explains the main drivers of economic change and how we are able to discern their effects in the world today.
A lucid and balanced...
Export Credit Insurance and Guarantees
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The first practitioner handbook on export credit insurance and guarantees, providing manufacturers, exporters, bankers, and lawyers with a much needed resource. The book contains descriptions and analyses of almost every type of export credit insurance and guarantee used in international trade with explanations about the risks inherent in each.
by Benn Steil, Manuel Hinds
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Winner of the 2010 Hayek Book Prize given by the Manhattan Institute"Money, Markets and Sovereignty is a surprisingly easy read, given the complicated issues covered. In it, Mr. Steil and Mr. Hinds consistently challenge today's statist nostrums."—Doug Bandow, The Washington TimesIn this keenly...
Regulatory Assessment Toolkit
A Practical Methodology For Assessing Regulation on Trade and Investment in Services
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The services sector—ranging from telecommunications and banking to business processing and outsourcing—is increasingly recognized as part and parcel of any trade strategy, both as a source of export diversification in its own right as well as a key component of a country’s competitiveness. Unlike...
The Future of Leadership Development
Corporate Needs and the Role of Business Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The current financial crisis highlights the need to rethink business leadership and the role of business schools in helping firms develop the leaders of the future. This book brings together the perspectives of deans of top international business schools, and the views of CEOs and senior business leaders.
Global Outsourcing Strategies
An International Reference on Effective Outsourcing Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
One of the most significant techniques to which companies and organizations have turned to improve service delivery and reduce costs has been outsourcing. Over the last 10 years, almost any process has been successfully outsourced. But during that period there have been failures too; projects that...
Merger Control in Europe
The Gap in the ECMR and National Merger Legislations
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book addresses the phenomenon of mergers that may result in non-coordinated effects in oligopolistic markets. Such cases are sometimes referred to as "non-collusive oligopolies", or "gap cases" and there is a concern that they might not be covered by the substantive test that...
Accelerating Japan's Economic Growth
Resolving Japan's Growth Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
The Japanese economy is beginning to show signs of recovery after years of stagnation/deflation, but many Japanese policymakers warn that this economic growth may be sluggish: slower than in the United States and certainly slower than in other East Asian countries. Japan faces significant economic...
Financial Statecraft
The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
As trade flows expanded and trade agreements proliferated after World War II, governments-most notably the United States-came increasingly to use their power over imports and exports to influence the behavior of other countries. But trade is not the only way in which nations interact economically. Over...
International Corporate Governance
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Thomas Clarke's International Corporate Governance offers a comprehensive guide to corporate governance forms and institutions and examines the recurring crises in corporate governance and the resulting corporate governance reform around the world.
While the popular structure of the original...
The Complexity of Tax Simplification
Experiences From Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Simplicity in taxation has considerable potential advantages. However, attempts to simplify tax systems are only likely to be successful and enduring if they take account of the reasons why taxation is complex. There are strong pressures on tax systems to accommodate a range of important factors,...