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In this timely and provocative book, James Stent, a banker with decades of experience in Asian banking and fluency in Chinese language, explains how Chinese banks work, analyzes their strengths and weaknesses, and sets forth the challenges they face in a slowing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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This volume is a collection of essays published between 1999 and 2015 in the review The Federalist Debate. The book highlights the issue of federalism intended as a theoretical paradigm to interpret the major problems of our age, and in particular the issues of peace...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2016-10-05
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Identity Construction and (Mis) Perceptions on Being Black in South Africa: Unpacking Socio-Economic, Spatial, and Political Dimensions in the South Durban Basin presents the research findings of a two-year empirically based study on the politics of race, ethnicity, and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-09-15
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In Gaining Currency, leading China scholar Eswar S. Prasad describes how the renminbi (RMB) is taking the world by storm and explains its role in reshaping global finance.
This book sets the recent rise of the RMB, China's currency since 1949, against a sweeping...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-13
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Capitalism has been an unprecedented engine of wealth creation for many centuries, leading to sustained productivity gains and long-term growth and lifting an increasing proportion of humanity out of poverty. But its effects, and hence its future, have come increasingly...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-26
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Capitalism has been an unprecedented engine of wealth creation for many centuries, leading to sustained productivity gains and long-term growth and lifting an increasing proportion of humanity out of poverty. But its effects, and hence its future, have come increasingly...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-25
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Roots of Brazil's Relative Economic Backwardness explains Brazil's development level in light of modern theories regarding economic growth and international economics. It focuses on both the proximate and fundamental causes of Brazil's slow development, turning...
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Academic Press
Parution :
2016-07-19
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Nach dem Scheitern des Verordnungsentwurfes zur Societas Privata Europaea hat die Europäische Kommission mit dem Richtlinienentwurf zur Societas Unius Personae (SUP) einen erneuten Anlauf genommen, um die Tätigkeit europäischer Unternehmen im gemeinsamen Binnenmarkt zu...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-10
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Aus Anlass des 65. Geburtstages von Reinhard Neck im Mai 2016 folgen wir der akademischen Tradition der Veröffentlichung einer Festschrift zu Ehren des Jubilars. Der berufliche Werdegang von Reinhard Neck beginnt mit einer Stelle als Universitätsassistent am Institut...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-20
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This book contends that the massacre of civilians in Beijing on June Fourth 1989 was a pivotal rupture in both Chinese and world history. If not for that day, China’s socioeconomic, political and cultural landscape would not have undergone the kind of dramatic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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This book examines Africa’s water resources from pre-historic times to the present, illustrating how Africans and their rulers formulated water management systems to support water-sector activities including irrigation, livestock raising, fishing, river transportation,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-19
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Korea's economic success has inspired numerous studies and research projects in past decades. Despite good efforts to analyze the strategy of Korea, earlier studies have not been able to comprehensively and systematically explain the country's "miraculous" growth. After...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-04-01
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How has China been able to maintain high-speed economic growth during the last thirty-plus years and successfully transform itself from a poor, backward, and developing country to become the world's second-largest economy? What are the challenges that China faces today...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-03-30
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This book interprets the historical evolution of how and why the international monetary system has been transformed. The strategies of the major decision-makers are defined and described, and an analysis made of how these strategies were adapted. The structure of the...
Editeur :
North Holland
Parution :
2016-01-26
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This book focuses on the nexus between constitutions adopted by post-socialist countries of Europe and Asia after 1989 and economic transition in the region. It takes the perspective of Constitutional Political Economy and argues for the role of constitutions as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-29
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Saving Capitalism and Democracy tries to answer the difficult questions posed by intellectuals, the media, politicians, students and ordinary people concerning the crisis and how to avert an impending catastrophe.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-11
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Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid: Value for Money and Aid for Trade provides updated information on how to improve foreign aid programs, exploring the concept and practice of impact assessment within the sometimes-unproblematic approaches advocated in current...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2015-11-10
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This book examines the Eurozone crisis and the possibility of fiscal and political union in Europe, with contributions from some of the most respected experts on these topics. The book explains the complex, multidimensional crises in competitiveness, fiscal matters,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-03
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German economic performance has astonished the world. At the turn of the century, Germany had been written off as the sick man of Europe. No more. Even as most of its European neighbors and OECD trading partners have struggled in the face of a turbulent global economy,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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The spread of contemporary globalized capitalism wrought by the new patterns of industrialization, marketization, and consumerization shapes Russia’s recent historical path and developmental possibilities. This book discusses Russia’s transformation into a market...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-16
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