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Ten crises: the political economy of China’s development (1949-2020)
This open access handbook, Ten Crises systematically traces the economic history of China from 1949 to 2020, unravelling the complex domestic and global factors leading to the cyclical crises identified by WEN and his research team, and examining the corresponding counteracting policies and measures by the government to resolve or defer the crises. The book offers profound insights into Chinaâ…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789811604553
- Collation
- xxxii, 510p: ill..
- Series Title
- Global University for Sustainability Book Series
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- 338 WEN t
East Asian Integration
The growth of world trade has been stagnant in recent times; trade liberalisation now has been challenged. The recent rise of anti-globalisation calls for a better integration in East Asia. How should East Asia manage its openness? This book provides profound analyses on rules of origins, non-tariff measures, restrictiveness in services and investment. It gives insight into how East Asian count…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429782497
- Collation
- 282
- Series Title
- Goods, Services and Investment
- Call Number
- 337.15 LIL e
The Asian 21st century
This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four parts: Part One The End of the Era of Western Domination. The major strategic error that the West is now making is to refuse to accept this re…
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- -
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- 9789811668111
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- vii, 270p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 320.95 MAH a
Self-governance and sami communities : Transitions in Early Modern Natural Re…
This open access book uses an interdisciplinary approach that not only focuses on social organization but also analyzes how societies and ecological settings were interwoven. How did early modern indigenous Sami inhabitants in interior northwest Fennoscandia build institutions for governance of natural resources? The book answers this question by exploring how they made decisions regarding natu…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030874988
- Collation
- xvi; 247 PG; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 333.70899457 SEL s
Aftershocks : Economic Crisis and Institutional Choice
Aftershocks was written in the midst of the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Although it would be premature to presume to identify the repercussions of the crisis, it is clear that it will have profound aftershock effects in the political, economic, and social spheres. The book contains essays based on semi-structured interviews with leading scholars, European politicians and…
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- -
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- 9789048511853
- Collation
- 288p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.542 AFT a
Globalization and Economic Diversification : Policy Challenges for Economies …
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. This volume brings together new contributions from renowned academic scholars, from experts on economies in transition and from the United Nations, the European Union, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as well as other international agencies. It ai…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781849665766
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- 264p : ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 330.1260947 GLO g
Formalizing the Shadow Economy in Serbia: Policy Measures and Growth Effects
This report presents the results and recommendations of a comprehensive study of the shadow economy in Serbia prepared by the Foundation for the Advancement of Economics for the USAID Business Enabling Project (BEP). The report is based on the results of an analysis of the relevant statistical data, information obtained from the Survey on Conditions for Doing Business carried out on a sample of…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319134376
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- 179p. : ill
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- -
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- 338.94971 FOR f
Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960
This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different spaces and approaches ambulatory trade as an arena of encounters by looking at everyday social practices. Petty traders often belo…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030980801
- Collation
- xiv; 353p; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 381.094809034 ENC J
CREATING THE CAPE COLONY : the political economy of settler colonisation
This open access book offers a detailed study of the foundation and expansion of the Dutch Cape Colony to ask why certain regions in the global south became European settler societies from the 16th century onwards. Examining the different factors that led to the creation of the Cape Colony, Erik Green reveals it was a gradual process, made up of ad hoc decisions, in which the agency of indigeno…
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- 4
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781350258259
- Collation
- viii, 192p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 916.8044 CRE g
Social enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe : theory, models and practice
In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional an…
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- 10
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429324529
- Collation
- ix, 326p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338 SOC n
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