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Welfare rise, spatial mobility, and global information and communication channels (in particular, social media) have prompted the emergence of a specific booming and rapidly growing mobility industr……続きを見る

Dieses Buch liest sich über weite Strecken wie ein Enthüllungsroman. Enthüllt werden kaum bekannte Fakten zur Krise der Europäischen Union. Der Untersuchung liegen umfangreiche Recherchen zugrunde. ……続きを見る

The transformation of women's lives over the past century is among the most significant and far-reaching of social and economic phenomena, affecting not only women but also their partners, children,……続きを見る

This book analyses the conflicts that emerged from the Brazilian labour movement’s active participation in a rapidly changing political environment, particularly in the context of the coming to powe……続きを見る

This book studies the challenges for Indonesia, once a miracle economy, as it faces premature deindustrialisation, rising inequality and domestic and external factors impacting its export-oriented i……続きを見る

This book focuses on wealth inequality trends in the North Atlantic Anglo-sphere countries of Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States over the period from 1668 to 2013: a wider perspective……続きを見る

The theme of this book is health outcomes in India, in particular to outcomes relating to its caste and religious groups and, within these groups, to their women and children. The book’s tenor is an……続きを見る

This book is a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional foundation of long-term economic growth from the perspective of state-market and central-local relations. The book argues that, in ……続きを見る

القسطية نظرية فكرية اقتصادية وسياسية وحضارية جديدة، تقوم عل المبادئ والقيم الإنسانية الكونية، وأولها مبدأ القسط، تأخذ من القرآن المصدر الأساسي لبناء مفاهيمها ، أقدمها كبديل منطقي ومنصف عن الشيوعية و……続きを見る

This volume is a collection of selected empirical studies on determinants of economic growth in Africa. Grouped into three parts, chapters examine the influence of financial sources and economic gro……続きを見る

During the past five decades, sub-Saharan Africa has received more foreign aid than has any other region of the world, and yet poverty remains endemic throughout the region. As Kenneth Kalu argues, ……続きを見る

This book analyzes the benefits of and legal concerns in connection with the delegated legislation of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone as a prime example of experimental legislation in Chinese law……続きを見る

This book argues that we need to focus attention on the ways that workers themselves have invested subjectively in what it means to be a worker. By doing so, we gain an explanation that moves us bey……続きを見る

This book purports to investigate and compare the economic development experiences in both Taiwan and South Korea in last two decades. Taiwan and South Korea’s economic development after WWII is a w……続きを見る

The book examines the pattern of non-farm development at the national level and identifies the correlates and determinants of occupational diversification for the major states. It is one of the few ……続きを見る

¿Necesitamos una yihad económica? ¿Qué puedes decir de las aburridas peleas de gallos entre las deidades capitalistas de nuestro tiempo? Debería estar tan disgustado como yo por estos espectáculos d……続きを見る

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of monetary policy, banking supervision and financial stability in the euro area. The author uses his professional experience in central banking to pr……続きを見る

La economía social presenta una visión que se centra en la dignidad de las personas y el rol de las comunidades, como su orientación básica. Se trata de un modelo de desarrollo que salvaguarda los m……続きを見る

This timely book offers revealing insights into the changing role of China in world governance as exemplified by the Silk Road Initiative, the People’s Republic’s first published major initiative fo……続きを見る

In the contemporary context of increasing inequality and various forms of segregation, this volume analyzes the transition to neoliberal politics in Santiago de Chile. Using an innovative methodolog……続きを見る

“In some respects, Palmer & Cay was too good to be trueーa great place to work with snowballing success. Good leadership, talented personnel, personal freedom, and generous compensation contributed ……続きを見る

Suppose you had a single framework that allowed you to understand why certain candidates win elections and why nations go to war. And why a country's internal politics can be peaceful one minute and……続きを見る

This book tries to integrate the different arrangements devised in the MTS for small and large NMEs into one analytical framework and explores two sets of rules (GATT/WTO-minus and GATT/WTO-plus) al……続きを見る

This book introduces an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Japanese foreign direct investment determinants, the close relations between foreign investment and trade flows in the host country……続きを見る

This book seeks to understand why almost all commentators on the Irish economy were unprepared for the scale of the recent economic crisis. It analyses the public contributions from a broad range of……続きを見る

This book examines failure in the urbanisation of Northwest China as a result of government industrial policies that have impacted on the economic development of the region. By looking at the under-……続きを見る

The wide-ranging European perspectives brought together in this volume aim to analyse, by means of an interdisciplinary approach, the numerous implications of a massive shift in the conception of ‘w……続きを見る

With the life story of Shibusawa Eiichi (1840–1931), one of the most important financiers and industrialists in modern Japanese history, as its narrative focal point, this book explores the challeng……続きを見る

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which includes Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia, is a new but substantial regional organization. Significant achievements include a common ext……続きを見る

Addressing the unprecedented international interest in China’s high-speed railways, this book adopts a global perspective to examine the success of the system and probes into its going-global strate……続きを見る