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Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Financial Development
Ding Chen
This important new book attempts to establish a fresh conceptual framework for the study of corporate governance by employing the new institutional economics of contract enforcement. This framework helps to clarify two critical issues in...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Middle Class China
Edited by Minglu Chen, David S.G. Goodman
A general expectation has developed that China’s middle class will generate not only social but also political change. This expectation often overlooks the reality that there is no single Chinese middle class with a common identity or wi...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law
Edited by Toshiko Takenaka
Drawing together the views and experiences of scholars and lawyers from the United States, Europe and Asia, this book examines how different characteristics embedded in national IP systems stem from differences in the fundamental legal p...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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China’s Economic Development
Lu Ming, Zhao Chen, Yongqin Wang, Yan Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Changyuan Luo
The authors identify three major factors in the growth of the Chinese economy: economic decentralization and political centralization; the urban–rural divide; and relational society. These are explored in depth via analyses of factors in...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Trafficking and Human Rights
Edited by Leslie Holmes
Human trafficking is widely considered to be the fastest growing branch of trafficking. It has moved rapidly up the agenda of states and international organisations since the early-1990s, not only because of this growth, but also as its ...eBook:Find out more£23.16
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Improving Irrigation in Asia
Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, Ganesh P. Shivakoti
Improving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained performance of irrigation systems. The work identifies key factors that can help explain the performance of intervent...eBook:Find out more£23.16
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Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China
Edited by Mike McConville, Eva Pils
Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China is an anthology of chapters on the contemporary criminal justice system in mainland China, bringing together the work of recognised scholars from China and around the world.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Islamic Capitalism and Finance
Murat Çizakça
This illuminating and thought-provoking book questions whether classical Islamic capitalism, which has served Muslims so well for centuries, can provide a viable alternative world economic system. In the current recession – the worst sin...eBook:Find out more£44.76
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Law and Society in Korea
Edited by Hyunah Yang
The contributors examine societal and historical conditions that are reflected in – or that were shaped by – the law, through a variety of lenses; including law and development, law and politics, colonialism and gender, past wrongdoings,...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Economics of East Asian Integration
Edited by Masahisa Fujita, Ikuo Kuroiwa, Satoru Kumagai
Covering a wide range of aspects surrounding economic integration in East Asia, this well-researched text will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of development studies, regional economics and Asian studies. It will be of ...eBook:Find out more£49.56
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Asia Rising
Edited by Hal Hill, Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista
The centre of global economic activity is shifting rapidly towards Asia, driven by a combination of the economic dynamism of China, India and other middle-income Asian countries, and sluggish growth in the OECD economies. The rapid growt...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Economic Integration Across the Taiwan Strait
Edited by Peter C.Y. Chow
Despite their controversial political relationship, Taiwan and China remain very much entwined economically. This timely volume explores the complicated state of economic and trade relations between the two countries, meticulously unrave...eBook:Find out more£25.00