The Uneven Offshore World (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)
by Justin Robertson and Michael Tyrala
Informed by world-systems analysis, this book examines the shifting patterns of accommodation and resistance to the offshore world, with a particular focus on Mauritius as a critical but underappreciated offshore node mediating foreign investment into India and Africa. Drawing on a large pool of financial data and elite interviews, the authors present the first detailed comparative study of the Mauritius–India and Mauritius–Africa offshore relationships. These relationships serve as indicative t...
The 2020 edition provides comprehensive information on the tariffs and non-tariff measures imposed by over 170 countries and customs territories. It is a joint publication of the WTO, the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Tariff data are presented in comparative tables indicating, among other things, the average "bound" or maximum tariff each economy may apply to its imports and the average tariff it applies in practice. A one-...
One hundred years after its foundation, the Federal Reserve has been entrusted with an enormous expansion in its operating powers for the sake of reviving a sluggish economy during the financial crisis. The aim of the present volume is to present a thorough and fundamental analysis of the Fed in the recent past, as well as over the entire course of its history. In evaluating the origin, structure and performance of the Fed, the contributors to this volume critically apply the principles of Austr...
This work exploits the natural experiment provided by the unexpected disintegration of socialist East Germany to study the impact of the mass immigration of East Germans on housing rents in West German metropolitan areas. Using a spatial correlation approach, annual district-level migration data for 1991 and 1992 and unique rental price indicators from Germany's major regional property market information system, Kathleen Kurschner finds strong evidence for a positive and sizeable effect of immig...
The worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s was the most traumatic event of the twentieth century. It ushered in substantial expansions in the role of governments around the world, focused attention on social insurance, and for a time bolstered socialist economic ideas as a form of cure. Skepticism about the effectiveness of government withered as the free market failed, and it seems safe to say that Keynesian economics would not have flourished if the depression had not occurred. While this sev...
Local Economies, Local Choice (Policy Paper S., #45) (Consultation Paper, #51)
by Sue Miller
Money and the End of Empire (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)
by Gerold Krozewski
This book presents a penetrating new analysis of the end of the empire, located at the intersection of politics, economy and society in Britain and the colonies. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, when political control was feasible, discriminatory management of the colonies sustained Britain's postwar recovery. But synergy turned into conflict as Britain moved towards economic liberalization and financial cosmopolitanism, and found it increasingly difficult to reconcile established relations wi...
Handbook of Sustainable Development Planning: Studies in Modelling and Decision Support
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up (Culture of the Land)
by Anthony Flaccavento and Bill McKibben
The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives -- and have transformed from impoverished neighborhoods into green development zones. Yet these promising achievements remain a small part of the total economy and are largely ignored by polic...
The Effects of Foreign-Exchange Intervention
by Kathryn Dominguez and Jeffrey A. Frankel
Does Foreign Exchange Intervention Work?
by Kathryn Dominguez and Jeffrey Frankel
Striking a Balance
For nearly fifty years, Professor Harry Glasbeek has been at the forefront of legal scholars and public intellectuals challenging assumptions and understandings about the injustices embedded in the economic, social, political and legal orders of Western capitalist democracies. His writings and teachings have influenced generations of law students, academics and activists. The Class Politics of Law brings together eleven incisive contributions from pre-eminent scholars across several disciplines...
Markus Eckrich untersucht, ob Clustereffekte in der Softwareindustrie Unternehmen helfen, innovativer und produktiver zu werden. Der Autor führt anhand dieser beiden Wirkungen eine Identifikation und Analyse von Softwareclustern durch und wählt als Indikatoren die Patentdichte und die Arbeitsproduktivität. Neben der wissenschaftlichen Relevanz bietet das Buch auch für Softwareunternehmen (Standortstrategie) und die Politik (Wirtschaftsförderung) interessante Aspekte.
Economic survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2016
Published since 1948, This is the sixty-eighth edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, which corresponds to the year 2016, consists of three parts. Part I outlines the region's economic performance in 2015 and analyses trends in the first half of 2016, as well as the outlook for the rest of the year. It examines the external and internal factors influencing the region's economic performance and highlights some of the macroeconomic policy challenges that have arisen in...