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Management and Regional Science for Economic Development by Manas Chatterji 9780898381085
RRP: £89.99£89.87The greatest challenge facing mankind today is the immense disparity in the levels of income among people in different parts of the globe. The growth rate of income of the poor countries is consistantiy far below the rate of the advanced, industrialized... -
Economic Growth, Low Income and Housing in South Korea by Kim Woo-Jin 9780333660997
RRP: £89.99£89.87'...a wide-ranging, scholarly and humane book which should be read by anyone seriously interested in this country.' - David Donnison From the devastation of the Korean war, there emerged one of the most dynamic, rapidly growing economies the world has... -
Urban residential location models by Stephen H. Putnam 9780898380118
RRP: £89.99£89.87The decade of the 1970's has seen substantial improvement in our under standing of the determinants of urban spatial patterns. It is typical of western science and technology of the past several centuries that these advances in urban spatial analysis... -
China and the Global Economy by Lu Aiguo 9780333777213
RRP: £89.99£89.87This is a study of the long-run evolution of the relationship between China and the world economy. Focusing on China's responses to the expansion of the capitalist world economy, the book presents an original interpretation of the country's socioeconomic... -
Building Resilience into Urban Investments in East Asia and the Pacific: Principles, Tools, and Practice by Abhas Kumar Jha 9780821388655
RRP: £21.95£21.86Resilience is the ability of a system, community, or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to, and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner. Resilience in the context of cities translates into a new... -
Taking Stock of Air Liberalization by M. Gaudry 9780792383871
RRP: £89.99£89.87Taking Stock of Air Liberalization is about Technology, Economy, and Policy (TEP) in the airline industry. Ten years ago, the practical collaboration was begun of bringing together people who belonged to the complementary streams of economic analysis and... -
Household Welfare in Central Asia by Jane Falkingham 9780333674338
RRP: £89.99£89.87The Central Asian republics represent the poorest area of the former Soviet Union and this book contains the first rigorous analysis of household living standards in the region. Part I deals with methodological issues of measuring household welfare in... -
Ethnic minorities in urban areas: A case study of racially changing communities by David P. Varady 9780898380132
RRP: £44.99£44.972 segregation in the United States (Taeuber and Taeuber, 1965: 28-64). Residential segregation limits the possibilities for contaets between whites and blaeks, and as a result, deereases the potential for social unity. Resi- dential segregation has been... -
A Workbook on Planning for Urban Resilience in the Face of Disasters: Adapting Experiences from Vietnam to Other Cities by Fatima Shah 9780821388785
RRP: £17.95£17.62This Workbook offers a step-by-step guide for city officials in proactively planning for natural disasters and climate change impacts. It is based on learning from three cities in Vietnam - Ha Noi, Can Tho, and Dong Hoi - that developed Local Resilience... -
The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development by Guido Licciardi 9780821396506
£26.93The book brings together the latest knowledge on historic city regeneration and cultural heritage conservation and their linkage to poverty reduction. It addresses the potential of conservation and adaptive reuse of heritage assets as drivers of local... -
Japan's New Imperialism by Rob Steven 9780333494455
RRP: £89.99£89.87The spectacular rise of the yen in the mid-1980s has unleashed a new wave of imperialism from Japan. Its origins are traced to a series of crises and rivalries between the two great capitalist powers, Japan and the USA. To escape the high yen, Japanese... -
Latin America: A New Developmental Welfare State in the Making? by Manuel Riesco 9780230007888
£90.27The 21st century Latin American developmental welfare state model is based on a new public-private alliance, where state-led developmental social policy relies for its implementation mainly on proactive, emerging regional entrepreneurs and a growing... -
Challenges of the Caspian Resource Boom: Domestic Elites and Policy-making by Andreas Heinrich 9780230301191
RRP: £89.99£89.87A re-conceptualisation of the widely-held concept of the 'resource curse', which contends that resource booms inevitably lead to numerous political, social and economic problems. This book counters that these problems are by no means inevitable, but are... -
The Shaping of Malaysia by Amarjit Kaur 9780333693759
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book brings together for the first time studies on all aspects of the Malaysian economy. These range from the geological origins and mineral resources, flora, fauna, peoples and cultures, political development, economy and society, environment and... -
Women’s Employment and Multinationals in Europe by R. Pearson 9780333467060
RRP: £89.99£89.87Multinationals have global reach in their search for profits; women, even more than men, are confined to their immediate community in their search for jobs. This book examines the interaction between multinationals and women in UK, Ireland, France and... -
Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor: Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World by World Bank 9780821388457
£26.93"Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable... -
Urban Dominance and Labour Market Differentiation of a European Capital City: Lisbon 1890-1990 by Pedro Telhado Pereira 9780792398301
RRP: £89.99£89.87There has been a tremendous explosion of interest in European urban history in the last decades. Across Europe we see a spate of new research projects and publications examining the economic, demographic, social and cultural devel opments of the many... -
Housing Markets and Housing Institutions: An International Comparison by Bjorn Harsman 9780792390848
£90.27International comparisons of economic institutions and government poli cies are fraught with difficulties. After1he selective barriers of language and culture are overcome, differences in programs and outcomes are far more subtle than those that can be... -
An Economic Perspective on the Southwest: Defining the Decade: Proceedings of the 1990 Conference on the Southwest Economy Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas by Gerald P. O'Driscoll 9780792392217
£90.27Proceedings of the 1990 Conference on the Southwest Economy Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of DallasBook InformationISBN 9780792392217Author Gerald P. O'DriscollFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 940g -
Regionalism in Europe: Geometries and Strategies After 2000 by Jurgen von Hagen 9780792373537
£90.27Over the past 40 years, the European Union has been a great force of attraction for new members. At the same time it has entered a host of bilateral and multilateral regional agreements with non-member countries. The result of these developments is a... -
Impact Assessment and Evaluation in Transportation Planning by Professor Peter Nijkamp 9780792326489
RRP: £89.99£89.87Impact Assessment and Evaluation in Transportation Planning contains a refreshing approach to transportation planning by integrating impact analysis and evaluation methodology. It is original in that impact assessment and evaluation are brought together... -
Creating the Future for Sun Valley: Heritage, Charm, and a Diverse Economy by Jima Rice 9780578960654
RRP: £11.99£8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578960654Author Jima RiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Rice Consulting AssociatiesPublisher Rice Consulting AssociatiesWeight(grams) 272g -
Multinationals in Eastern Europe by Patrick Artisien-Maksimenko 9780333792940
RRP: £46.00£45.96Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Conversations With Indian Economists by V. Balasubramanyam 9780333777749
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book on India's economic policies and performance is based on conversations with some of India's leading economists. It covers a number of controversial issues relating to agriculture, industrialisation, education and financial policies. Each of the... -
A New Paradigm for Korea's Economic Development: From Government Control to Market Economy by Sung-Hee Jwa 9780333760635
£90.27The reader will find here analyses of a wide range of past and current policy experiences and reform efforts in Korea. The policy lessons drawn are designed to aid Korea's transformation from the government-led development model to a modern... -
The Chinese Economy in the 1990s by J. Ma 9780333751343
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book provides a comprehensive overview and some economic analysis of China's economic reform experiences, particularly those since the late 1980s. It covers many institutional details of key aspects of the Chinese economy, including fiscal and... -
Market and Institutional Regulation in Chinese Industrialization,1978-94 by Dic Lo 9780333665466
RRP: £89.99£89.87There is now a vast and still rapidly expanding literature of scholarly studies on the Chinese experience of economic growth and systemic transformation over the past 16 years. By and large, most of the studies tend to conceptualize the experience as a... -
Trade Liberalisation in Sri Lanka: Exports, Technology and Industrial Policy by Ganeshan Wignaraja 9780333649565
£90.27The East Asian experience suggests that technological development is fundamental to export success in outward-oriented economies. This study analyses export performance in Sri Lanka at a national and firm level, focusing on the acquisition of industrial... -
China Superpower: Requisites for High Growth by F. Lees 9780333637081
RRP: £89.99£89.87This volume analyzes the economic achievements of China since the opening in 1979, and the measures taken by the government to spur international trade, investment and technology transfer. China's extraordinarily high economic growth rate is examined,... -
The Role of Competition in Economic Transition by Christopher Saunders 9780333590348
RRP: £89.99£89.87This volume reports the proceedings of a conference of highly qualified practitioners and theorists from East and West, dealing with competition and the important part it plays as an essential element of the market economic system. So far, in the... -
Africa's Recovery in the 1990s: From Stagnation and Adjustment to Human Development by Giovanni Andrea Cornia 9780333573167
£90.27While the design of adjustment policies in the latter part of the 1980s has generally shown greater attention to their impact on growth and social implications, this book argues that several orthodox adjustment policies are still incongruent with... -
Africa's Recovery in the 1990s: From Stagnation and Adjustment to Human Development by Giovanni Andrea Cornia 9780333573150
£90.27While the design of adjustment policies in the latter part of the 1980s has generally shown greater attention to their impact on growth and social implications, this book argues that several orthodox adjustment policies are still incongruent with... -
Economic Reforms in Centrally Planned Economies and their Impact on the Global Economy by Jozef M. van Brabant 9780333558119
£45.37This volume focuses on the important issues raised by the recent economic reforms of the centrally planned economies of China, South-East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Participation in the international trade regime and how this may be... -
Cities, Transport and Communications: The Integration of Southeast Asia Since 1850 by Howard Dick 9780333553015
£90.27This book shows the impact of globalization on Southeast Asia, which over a few decades has evolved from a loose set of war-torn ex-colonies to being a centre of global manufacturing. Focusing on cities, the authors explain the emergence of modern... -
Industrialization and China's Rural Modernization by Fureng Dong 9780333536773
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book analyses China's historical experience of industrialization. It adopts a critical stance towards China's development strategy and proposes an alternative approach, outlining its main features. Due to the great importance and special problems of... -
China's Economy: From Revolution to Reform by David J. Pyle 9780333515600
RRP: £89.99£89.87China's dramatic economic transformation can only be understood in relation to her modern history. David Pyle reviews the post-1978 reform process in the context of two centuries of Chinese economic, social and political history. Agricultural, industrial... -
The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia by David Wurfel 9780333464663
£90.27This is the first book in several years to review the foreign policies of major Southeast Asian states and the first ever to include those frequently neglected smaller states. It is also unique in the editors' adherence to a new comparative framework... -
The State and Capital Accumulation in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela by Christian Anglade 9780333426425
£90.27This is the second and final volume of a collection of studies on the role of the state in capital accumulation in Latin America. Volume One included a general historical and conceptual introduction and case studies of Brazil, Chile and Mexico. The... -
Industrial Policies in the European Community by Victoria Curzon Price 9780333319116
RRP: £89.99£89.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333319116Author Victoria Curzon PriceFormat HardbackPage Count 141Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 354g -
The Economic Development of China: A Comparison with the Japanese Experience by Ryoshin Minami 9780312100216
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book identifies that problems that China must face to develop its economy and elucidates the structural deficiencies which lay behind these problems. Chinese economy compared with other economies in the world. The book also analyzes China's present...