Economic Conditions

Southeast Asia witnessed a wide array of policy actions at the regional and international levels to unravel the ripple effects of the global economic downturn and to set the stage for a long-term recovery. Yet the quest for regional and global solutions...

Launched in 1992, Regional Outlook is an annual publication of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, published every January. Designed for the busy executive, professional, diplomat, journalist, or interested observer, Regional Outlook aims to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464803291Author World BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 323Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

Global growth prospects have deteriorated in 2016. Emerging market and developing economies are facing increased external headwinds, including softer growth in advanced economies. Commodity exporters are struggling with particularly challenging...

This edition (1964) of Business Cycles and National Income includes the whole of the 1951 edition (Parts I-IV) in unaltered form and adds five new chapters (Part V). This new material presents a survey and analysis of the four recessions and recoveries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorWilliam G. Bowen (1933-2016) was an influential educator and the author of more than twenty books, including Lessons Learned: Reflections of a University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369392411Author Richard DennissFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 331g

The primary objective of this book is to give consideration to rural problems in terms of human elements as well as in terms of production, prices, and markets. Actual relief cases are described to illustrate the cause and effect of federal relief on...

The clothing sector has traditionally been a gateway to export diversification and industrial development for low-income countries (LICs) due to its low fix costs, relatively simple technology, and labor-intensive nature. It has served to absorb large...

Economic Institutions and Democratic Reform rigorously and systematically explores the political effects and consequences of economic reform in more than 20 post-communist countries. By using primary quantitative data and stringent statistical analyses,...

Trust is an elusive concept, meaning different things to different people, and so needs to be clearly defined. By focusing on relations within and between firms, Bart Nooteboom undertakes to produce a clearer definition of trust and its role in the...

Work finishedjournalistic style, this book introduces a new economics technology, Econodynamicsoa scientific alternative to answer the unsolved problems of conventional economics. Field and Pressel make surprising and sometimes controversial sense of any...

This timely book utilizes the tools of politics, economics and public policy to explore the causes of the recent global financial crisis, which, the author argues, can be explained as the absence of a public interest perspective in policy making. Maurice...

Despite the fact that Western governments have provided Ukraine with over $10 billion in foreign aid, little is known of Ukraine's economy since it declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. In this book, Professor Banaian describes the halting...

Using official information and secondary sources, the author, a former ambassador to the Middle East specializing in economic and trade matters, provides a detailed survey of developments since World War II, emphasizing the relationship between economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674891807Author Dr Robert RepettoFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 476g

The Economic Impact of New Firms in Post-Socialist Countries analyses the emergence and contribution of new entrepreneurs in the transforming economies of Eastern Europe. Small firms and new enterprises are widely assumed to play an important role in the...

Almost all European pundits believe that, while the U.S. economy may create more growth, Europeans have it better when it comes to job security, income equality, and other factors. Olaf Gersemann, found the reality quite different. He found that what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458944Author Samir AminFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

Following his timely and well-received A Failure of Capitalism, Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the depths to which they had...

This important new book is the first general overview of the macroeconomic nature and recent history of the Singapore economy.After discussing general features of modern Singapore's economy, government and development strategy, the authors analyse its...

In recent years, and to varying degrees, there has been a marked trend towards decentralisation of labour market regulation in many European countries. The authors of this book seek to assess the impact of social partnership and social protection on the...

This seminal reference tool provides a detailed chronological account of the development of European integration from the fragmentation at the end of the Second World War to the launch of the Euro on 31st December 1998. It offers a descriptive summary of...

This book reveals significant lessons on how economic prosperity was secured for people over three decades in eight Asian countries. It focusses on the careful way in which these nations designed and implemented pro-growth, liberal economic and financial...

The Asian crisis that started in July 1997 wrought untold damages on a large number of countries worldwide and brought intolerable hardships and poverty to millions of people in Asia, and to a lesser extent in Russia and Latin America as well as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853155744Author Ben FineFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Lawrence & Wishart LtdPublisher Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897071014Author David F. NobleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the Lines

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670083978Author Ashok MitraFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

The Global Financial Crisis is a unique investigation into the causes of the most savage economic downturn experienced since the Great Depression. Employing wide and divergent perspectives - which are themselves critically examined - this study analyses...

Economic growth in Latin America and the rise of material welfare has lagged behind that of more dynamic areas of the world economy. In a region prone to policy experiments, the policies of the Washington Consensus applied since the 1990s failed to bring...

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 domestic and...

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 rapidly ageing Japanese...

Change in Eastern Europe has too often been seen in narrowly political terms by historians and commentators. Underlying the often dramatic political events of the post-1918 period have been economic and social elements which have both massively...

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 exhibits a...

Following German reunification in 1990, East Germany's centrally planned economy was abolished and replaced by West Germany's social market economy. Western Germany has since provided vast financial support to aid the transformation, and enable eastern...

This fascinating book presents a lively discussion of key issues resulting from the recent financial crisis. The expert contributors explore why the global financial crisis occurred, how it destroyed wealth, triggered mass unemployment and created an...

It is an accepted truism that the Great Depression did more for the development of modern economics than any other single event. Some of the greatest economists of the twentieth century were inspired to go into the field as a direct result of their...

The Global Financial Crisis is a unique investigation into the causes of the most savage economic downturn experienced since the Great Depression. Employing wide and divergent perspectives - which are themselves critically examined - this study analyses...

The rapidly increasing importance of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan both in Asia and in the world economy, represents a trend that is set to continue into the 21st century. This book provides an authoritative assessment of the...

Since its publication in 1978, Jay R. Mandle's The Roots of Black Poverty has come to be seen as a landmark publication in the study of the political economy of the postbellum South. In Not Slave, Not Free, Mandle substantially revises and updates his...