Reducing Poverty on a Global Scale: Learning and Innovating for Development
Capturing the findings from the Shanghai Global Learning Initiative, Reducing Poverty on a Global Scale attempts to contribute to the broader existing knowledge on poverty reduction and the effectiveness of aid. The objective is to enlighten development practitioners about observed achievements towards reducing poverty and the factors behind them. Each of the chapters extracts implementation lessons learnt from a subset of case studies prepared along different poverty dimensions, focusing on suc...
Freight & Stock Handler Log (Unique Logbooks/Record Books)
by Unique Logbooks
Asymmetric Monetary Transmission in Europe (European and Transatlantic Studies)
by Volker Clausen
The euro and the ESCB have started in January 1999 and there is naturally a wide-ranging interest in academia and among policymakers in OECD coun- tries, how successful European Monetary Union will and can be. EMU has started with 11 countries and experienced a rapid depreciation of the cur- rency. With so many EU countries joining for a historical monetary union in a period of economic globalization, international financial market changes and ongoing EU enlargement the problem of monetary polic...
From Oil to Gas and Beyond chronicles the history of the petroleum industry in Trinidad and Tobago and appraises major policy decisions impacting its economy. The book details the macroeconomic, commercial, and technical challenges faced by Trinidad and Tobago in the monetization of its oil and gas resources over the past one hundred years. The contributors cover several topics including local content, national participation, sustainability, communication, leadership, energy diplomacy, environme...
Please note this is a Short Discount publication. Component distributors are a relatively new part of the electronics industry and are increasingly being used by manufacturers. The continuing growth of the distributor sector demonstrates the significance of this industry in the European electronics market. This new market research report analyses the major trends and events that will influence the European Electronic Component Distribution industry in the next five years, and provides market for...
Before and Beyond Emu (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy (eBook), #55)
From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an “important” (The Wall Street Journal) and “penetrating historical and political study” (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography. For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States,...
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This work aims to show how the ancient myths from the hunting societies of the West and the planting societies of the East have been transformed to today's corporate boardroom and business practices. The book links the ""individual self"" from the West and the ""civic self"" from the East to emotional intelligence, leadership style and corporate performance. In doing so, the book links out two contrasting but complemetary capabilites for logic and intution, individualism and collectivism, and di...
International Marketing and Export Management Instructor's Manual
by Gerald Albaum
The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade (No-nonsense Guides)
by David Ransom
From coffee farming in Peru and cocoa production in Ghana to jeans manufacture in China and the Banana War of Guatemala and the Caribbean, this guide tells the human story behind the products we consume. Examining the contest between 'free' and 'fair' trade around the world, David Ransom argues that the key question is not whether trade should be regulated or deregulated, but whether it is to be the master or servant of the people. And a concluding chapter explains how, as fair trade products ar...
In the frigid winter of 1875, federal agents tracked Charles L. Lawrence, an intimate of Boss Tweed and the most promiscuous smuggler in American history. Leading a network spanning four continents and lasting half a decade, "Charley" smuggled silk worth $60 million into the United States. Since the American Revolution, smuggling had tested the patriotism of the American people. Distrusting foreign goods, Congress instituted high tariffs making the custom house the nation's protector. It waged a...
Financial Globalization and Democracy in Emerging Markets (International Political Economy)
When Mexico's peso crisis occurred in December 1994, all of Latin America experienced the 'tequila effect'. In January 1998, after seven months of financial turmoil in East Asia, Alan Greenspan, the usually reticent Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank, noted that such 'vicious cycles...may, in fact, be a defining characteristic of the new high-tech international financial system'. This book examines the impact of the new, highly liquid portfolio capital flows on governments, opposition, poli...
International Business (The Dryden Press series in management)
by Michael R Czinkota and Rajib N Sanyal
Written by a team well-seasoned in the international business arena, the market-leading International Business provides a truly global perspective of international business. A reorganization of chapters in the fifth edition will allow instructors to cover culture, national trade, and investment policies early in the course. A greater emphasis on ethics and social responsibility has been added to this edition. Web references include activities and sources for updated data to keep the student with...
"The bottom line is this: the developing countries that are catching up with the rich ones are those that are open to trade." - Mike Moore, President of the World Trade Organisation The South American countries have shown that they are indeed open to trade, most notably in the creation of Mercosur, the trade bloc of the Southern Cone of South America. A devaluation in Brazil in 1999 and a liquidity crisis in Argentina in 2001 have forced the continent's two largest economies to adopt comprehen...