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GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social and environmental crises has exposed the flaws of our...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-06-30
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This book describes and analyzes the new problems and challenges faced by China's non-governmental enterprises. In the post-WTO era, which has been particularly affected by the international financial crisis, there will be many problems and challenges that need to be...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-05-18
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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This book examines the many ways in which the Communist Party in China is still revolutionary by focusing on how, in recent years, it has attempted to mobilize Party members to become ethical subjects. In the context of the Party’s history of the military revolution,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-11
Collection :
Politics and Development of Contemporary China
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The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise. Many leading commentators declared shortly before the crisis that the magical recipe for eternal stability had been found. Less than a year...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-09
Collection :
The Future of Capitalism
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This book investigates key developments in China’s manufacturing industry from the perspectives of general evaluation, regional analysis, industrial analysis and enterprise analysis. Based on data for 1978 to 2013, it details the characteristics of the different stages,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-04-09
Collection :
Current Chinese Economic Report Series
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Stefan Klaßmüller beschäftigt sich in diesem Buch mit der Wettbewerbsintensität im deutschen Bankensektor und dem Einfluss des Wettbewerbs auf die Bankenstabilität. Der Autor führt eine empirische Analyse durch, die bestätigt, dass starke regionale Unterschiede in...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2017-03-23
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This book reviews the key policy debates during the post-crash era, describing the issues that policymakers grappled with, the decisions that they took and the details of the policy instruments that were created. Focusing specifically on issues in monetary and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-16
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This book offers an authoritative study on special economic zones in China. With articles from economic experts and scholars, the scope of the book includes new theories, methods and discoveries in the field of special economic zone studies. It foscuses on discussing...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-15
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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This book puts forward a distinctive theoretical approach and analytical framework for studying business as an international actor in the environmental field, and provides detailed case studies of the most important environmental challenges in recent years.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-07
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This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and focusing on development aid, peace-building and climate funds. Casting a spotlight on the application of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-06
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This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security. The first section of the book establishes the context of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-02
Collection :
Natural Resource Management and Policy
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This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care. Structured in three parts, the book begins by framing social policy as an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-28
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This book links tropical agri-chain dynamics – with which CIRAD and AFD have been involved for decades – to that of sustainable development. Increased environmental and social concerns urge agri-chain actors and development practitioners to design innovations, and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-02-20
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Rome's wars delivered great wealth to the conquerors, but how did this affect politics and society on the home front? In Power and Public Finance at Rome, James Tan offers the first examination of the Roman Republic from the perspective of fiscal sociology and makes the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-02-08
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This two-volume book addresses the economic transformation occurring in China at present. The author investigates China's domestic and international policies, the impact of these policies on economic growth, and their effect on the quality of life for the people of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-09
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This book discusses current theories and practices in the field of public procurement. Over the past few decades, public procurement has had to evolve conceptually and organizationally in the face of unrelenting budget constraints, government downsizing, public demand...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-27
Collection :
Public Administration, Governance and Globalization
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Kim Leonie Kellermann analyzes the impact of sectoral minimum wages in Germany on the willingness of youths to undergo apprenticeship training. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel, the author shows that higher wage floors set small, positive incentives for...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2016-12-27
Collection :
BestMasters
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This book shows the necessity of measuring the incidence-basis indirect economic effects of public investments. The essential argument can be traced back to H. Mohring versus J. Tinbergen, the conclusions of one contradicting those of the other. Their arguments are...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-22
Collection :
New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
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This book addresses two general questions that have arisen as a result of the uneven rise of the various Asian economies in contemporary times. First, to lift people out of poverty and to improve the quality of their lives, how do we institute policies that will ensure...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-20
Collection :
New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
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This collection explores how pioneering gender equality policies have shaped women's economic presence in Europe since 2000. Equal pay policies, parental leave reforms, corporate quotas and electoral quotas have raised pressing questions about the effectiveness in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-13
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