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![Reforming Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and the Rebuilding of Indonesia]()
Reforming Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and the Rebuilding of Indonesia
Edited by James Alm, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Indonesia is currently facing some severe challenges, both in political affairs and in economic management. One of these challenges is the recently enacted decentralization program, now well underway, which promises to have some wide-ran...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Welfare, Environment and Changing US–Chinese Relations]()
Welfare, Environment and Changing US–Chinese Relations
Edited by Maria Weber
By adopting a wide-ranging perspective, this book addresses the key issues relevant to contemporary China, providing a valuable tool with which to understand the challenges and opportunities facing political and economic actors, both dom...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations]()
Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations
Edited by Peter Bernholz, Roland Vaubel
Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its ver...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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East Asia’s Monetary Future
Edited by Suthiphand Chirathivat, Emil-Maria Claassen, Jürgen Schroeder
East Asia’s Monetary Future is an illuminating and valuable work which uniquely focuses on a long-term monetary view of the region. There are multiple and varied future scenarios which can be applied to this region – an enlarged Singapor...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies]()
Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies
Edited by Michele Boldrin, Been-Lon Chen, Ping Wang
Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies argues that only two centuries ago, no society had ever enjoyed sustained growth in living standards. The contributors to this book aim to discover why the world today e...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Chinese Stock Market]()
The Chinese Stock Market
Nicolaas Groenewold, Yanrui Wu, Sam H.K. Tang, Xiang M. Fan
The emergence of a stock market in China only occurred a decade ago and it remains something of an unknown quantity to many observers and traders outside of the country. This book provides an extensive historical and empirical analysis o...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Electricity Reform in China, India and Russia]()
Electricity Reform in China, India and Russia
Xu Yi-Chong
Examining the reform and restructuring of the electricity industry in China, India and Russia, this book explores the way that local conditions and institutions shape the commitment, direction and speed of public utility reform in the th... -
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![The Economic Impacts of Population Ageing in Japan]()
The Economic Impacts of Population Ageing in Japan
Landis MacKellar, Tatiana Ermolieva, David Horlacher, Leslie Mayhew
Whilst all of the major industrialized countries are currently experiencing population ageing, Japan is at the forefront of this demographic trend. This important new book explores the serious economic and social challenges that a rapidl... -
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![Globalization and Marketization in Education]()
Globalization and Marketization in Education
Ka-Ho Mok, Jason Tan
Globalization has effected tremendous change to the character and functions of education worldwide. This unique book focuses on its impact upon Hong Kong and Singapore, and how these two East Asian Tigers have responded to the strong glo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Economics of Productivity in Asia and Australia]()
The Economics of Productivity in Asia and Australia
Renuka Mahadevan
Productivity growth has long been recognised by both economists and non-economists as being necessary for all economies aspiring to raise their standard of living. Thus, Renuka Mahadevan aims to highlight the conceptual differences, adva...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Banking and Insurance in the New China]()
Banking and Insurance in the New China
Chien-Hsun Chen, Hui-Tzu Shih
Financial reform has been a major concern for China’s transitional economy – especially in the realms of banking and insurance – since accession to the WTO in 2001. This book scrutinizes the development and limitations of these industrie... -
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![Korea’s New Economic Strategy in the Globalization Era]()
Korea’s New Economic Strategy in the Globalization Era
Edited by O. Y. Kwon, Sung-Hee Jwa, Kyung-Tae Lee
This book presents Korea’s economic strategy to meet the emerging challenges, as it recovers from the 1997 financial crisis and moves on into the globalization and information era. For important policy areas, the authors evaluate existin...
