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The Asian Tsunami
Sisira Jayasuriya, Peter McCawley
The 2004 Asian tsunami was the greatest natural disaster in recent times. Almost 230 000 people died. In response, governments in Asia and the broader international community announced large aid programs. The resulting assistance effort ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Managing Capital Flows
Edited by Masahiro Kawai, Mario B. Lamberte
Managing Capital Flows provides analyses designed to help policymakers develop a framework for managing capital flows that is consistent with prudent macroeconomic and financial sector stability.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Asian Regionalism in the World Economy
Edited by Masahiro Kawai, Jong-Wha Lee, Peter A. Petri, Giovanni Capanelli
The structure and policy architecture of the world economy, as it emerges from the historic challenges now underway, will be affected by the dramatic rise of Asian economies and deepening connections among them. This important book exami...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Rethinking Trade and Commercial Policy Theories
P. Sai-wing Ho
This controversial book offers a unique approach to rethinking the trade and development literature and will therefore strongly appeal to researchers, academics, and students of trade and development as well as those involved in the hist... -
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Contemporary Microenterprise
Edited by Joseph Mark S. Munoz
While there have been numerous books and articles written on the popular topic of ‘microfinance’, few books have been written on the business model behind it: the ‘microenterprise’. Due to its diversity of thought and high quality of cha...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Input Trade and Production Networks in East Asia
Edited by Daisuke Hiratsuka, Yoko Uchida
Intermediate input trade is regarded as an important contributory factor in explaining the increase in world trade in recent years. This timely book presents, for the first time, meticulous empirical analyses of the growth of input trade...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Corruption and its Manifestation in the Persian Gulf
Hossein Askari, Scheherazade Sabina Rehman, Noora Arfaa
The authors of this timely book investigate various forms and measures of corruption, examine whether corruption is more acute in Persian Gulf countries than elsewhere, and illustrate the unique forms it takes in oil- and natural gas-ric...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Beyond Inflation Targeting
Edited by Gerald A. Epstein, A. Erinc Yeldan
This book, written by an international team of economists, develops concrete, country specific alternatives to inflation targeting, the dominant policy framework of central bank policy that focuses on keeping inflation in the low single ...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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Globalization and Development in the Mekong Economies
Edited by Suiwah Leung, Ben Bingham, Matt Davies
Since the late 1980s, Vietnam, Cambodia, PDR Lao, and Myanmar have been opening their economies to international trade and investment. With the exception of Myanmar, the reforms have yielded impressive results, but the process is far fro...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Systemic Vulnerability and Sustainable Economic Growth
Bryan K. Ritchie
For many developing countries, economic growth is an elusive quest. Both economists and policymakers have long known that issues such as education, investment and infrastructure are necessary ingredients for development and yet only a ve...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Macroeconomic Institutions and Development
Bilin Neyapti
The book incorporates the essential elements of institutional theory and highlights the issues pertaining to the measurement of institutional characteristics and the empirical analyses involving such measurement. It provides the theoreti...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Great Migration
Edited by Xin Meng, Chris Manning, Li Shi, Tadjuddin Nur Effendi
This fascinating study compares and contrasts the immense internal migration movements in China and Indonesia. Over the next two decades, approximately two-thirds of the rural labour force is expected to migrate, transforming their respe...