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The Voyage of the 'Frolic': New England Merchants and the Opium Trade
ISBN: 9780804738491 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late summer of 1984, the author and a group of his archaeology students excavated fragments of Chinese porcelain at the site of a Pomo Indian village a hundred miles north of San Francisco. How did these ceramics, which were more than a hundred years old, find their way to this remote area? And what could one make of local legend that told of Pomo women wearing Chinese silk shawls in the 1850's? The author determined to find the answers to these questions, never dreaming that his quest would eventually involve the lives of nineteenth-century Boston merchants, Baltimore shipbuilders,...
In the late summer of 1984, the author and a group of his archaeology students excavated fragments of Chinese porcelain at the site of a Pomo Indian v...
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Trade Competitiveness of the Middle East and North Africa: Policies for Export Diversification
ISBN: 9780821380741 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The traditional policy reform agenda concentrated on reduction of tariff and non-tariff barriers between countries in the region and toward international markets is necessary, but not sufficient reason, for success. New opportunities, notably on trade and transport, and the services market deserve a higher profile on the policy agenda.
The traditional policy reform agenda concentrated on reduction of tariff and non-tariff barriers between countries in the region and toward internatio...
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International Trade Statistics Yearbook 2006
ISBN: 9789210612463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2040 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This yearbook presents detailed information on the external trade performance of 145 countries in terms of overall trends in current value, volume, and price; the importance of trading partners; and the significance of individual commodities imported and exported.Volume One contains data on individual countries, including: import and export series data; percentage breakdowns of imports by broad economic categories; percentage breakdown of exports by industrial origin; the value of import and export trade analyzed by the principal countries or areas and regions of provenance and destination;...
This yearbook presents detailed information on the external trade performance of 145 countries in terms of overall trends in current value, volume, an...
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Germany's Technological Performance: A Study on Behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
ISBN: 9783790812817 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The research results presented in this book are part of the continuous reporting on the technological performance of the German economy. It compares the short-term results and offers solutions for medium and long-term policy problems.
The research results presented in this book are part of the continuous reporting on the technological performance of the German economy. It compares t...
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Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective
ISBN: 9780415569576 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past, Austrian economics has been seen as almost exclusively focused on microeconomics. Here, Steven Horwitz constructs a systematic presentation of what Austrian macroeconomics would look like. This original and highly accessible work will be of great value and interest to professional economists and students.
In the past, Austrian economics has been seen as almost exclusively focused on microeconomics. Here, Steven Horwitz constructs a syst...
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Modeling Mineral and Energy Markets
ISBN: 9780792383727 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a framework for analyzing and forecasting a variety of mineral and energy markets and related industries. Such modeling activity has been at the forefront of the economic and engineering professions for some time, having received a major stimulus fC?llowing the first oil price shock in 1973. Since that time, other shocks have affected these markets and industries, causing disequilibrium economic adjustments which are difficult to analyze and to predict. Moreover, geopolitics remains an important factor which can destabilize crude oil markets and associated refining...
This book provides a framework for analyzing and forecasting a variety of mineral and energy markets and related industries. Such modeling activity ha...
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Success Strategies and Knowledge Transfer in Cross-Border Consulting Operations
ISBN: 9780792377764 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Success Strategies and Knowledge Transfer in Cross-Border Consulting Operations analyzes the international operations of consulting firms. Apart from developing a theoretical framework which differs from traditional theories about international trade, the main issues analyzed in this book are: 1) Success determinants when tendering for international consulting contracts; 2) The choice between exports, acquisition of a local firm or establishing a greenfield office when entering foreign markets; 3) The extent and nature of knowledge transfer to emerging markets; 4) The role...
Success Strategies and Knowledge Transfer in Cross-Border Consulting Operations analyzes the international operations of consulting ...
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International Trade Statistics Yearbook 2007
ISBN: 9789210612630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2052 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fifty-sixth edition of the International Trade Statistics Yearbook provides the basic information for individual countries external trade performances in terms of value, as well as in volume and price, the importance of trading partners and the significance of individual commodities imported and exported. This edition shows annual statistics up to the year 2007 for 180 countries or areas. It is published in two volumes. Volume I contains detailed data for individual countries or areas, and Volume II contains commodity tables showing the world trade of certain commodities analyzed by...
This fifty-sixth edition of the International Trade Statistics Yearbook provides the basic information for individual countries external trade perform...
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Connecting Landlocked Developing Countries to Markets: Trade Corridors in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780821384169 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims to help the policymaker and development community in general to understand the nature of the problems and policy dilemmas that landlocked countries face to trade with the rest of the World. This volume presents an important breakthrough in the literature, by focusing on a new conceptual framework that challenges the previous paradigm based on physical infrastructure and state-led access solutions, embodied in many treaties. By recognizing that the main access problems for landlocked countries occur in the territory of the transit country, this volume provides a new approach to...
This book aims to help the policymaker and development community in general to understand the nature of the problems and policy dilemmas that landlock...
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Trade and Transport Facilitation: A Toolkit for Audit, Analysis, and Remedial Action
ISBN: 9780821350478 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report is an expanded version of Trade and Transport Facilitation: An Audit Methodology, published by the World Bank in April 2000. Its primary focus is on transport facilitation in developing countries. Understanding that each country has its own set of special characteristics including significant border entry and import points, this report provides an analytical approach complemented by practical suggestions on how to analyze findings and create effective remedial action plans.
This report is an expanded version of Trade and Transport Facilitation: An Audit Methodology, published by the World Bank in April 2000. Its primary f...
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China as the Workshop of the World: An Analysis at the National and Industrial Level of China in the International Division of Labor
ISBN: 9780415604055 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is China becoming the "workshop of the world" in the same way as Britain and the United States once were; or is China - as some multinational companies believe - simply a processing segment in global production networks? This book examines China's role in the international division of labor: it analyzes the scale and scope of China's manufacture; the type and relative sophistication of its exports in the world market; and its position in the global value chain. It shows that China monopolizes industrial production by being the processing center of world. Based on extensive original... Is China becoming the "workshop of the world" in the same way as Britain and the United States once were; or is China - as some multinational compa... |
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International Trade Statistics Yearbook: Volume I: Trade by Country
ISBN: 9789211615432 / Angielski / Twarda / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fifty-sixth edition of the International Trade Statistics Yearbook provides the basic information for individual countries external trade performances in terms of value, as well as in volume and price, the importance of trading partners and the significance of individual commodities imported and exported. This edition shows annual statistics up to the year 2007 for 180 countries or areas. It is published in two volumes. Volume I contains detailed data for individual countries or areas, and Volume II contains commodity tables showing the world trade of certain commodities analyzed by...
This fifty-sixth edition of the International Trade Statistics Yearbook provides the basic information for individual countries external trade perform...
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Analysis of U.S.-Mexico Sugar Trade: Impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Projections for the Future
ISBN: 9781599427140 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines U.S.-Mexico sugar trade with special attention given to the impact of changes in trade and market environments caused by implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the introduction of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). These two factors contributed to shaping sugar markets in the United States and Mexico as well as sugar trade between the two countries. The study includes two sections: (1) a description of the sugar markets from an historic point of view and (2) an empirical study forecasting the market and trade outlook. In section one,...
This study examines U.S.-Mexico sugar trade with special attention given to the impact of changes in trade and market environments caused by implement...
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International Financial Contagion
ISBN: 9781441948762 / Angielski / Miękka / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No sooner had the Asian crisis broken out in 1997 than the witch-hunt started. With great indignation every Asian economy pointed fingers. They were innocent bystanders. The fundamental reason for the crisis was this or that - most prominently contagion - but also the decline in exports of the new commodities (high-tech goods), the steep rise of the dollar, speculators, etc. The prominent question, of course, is whether contagion could really have been the key factor and, if so, what are the channels and mechanisms through which it operated in such a powerful manner. The question is obvious...
No sooner had the Asian crisis broken out in 1997 than the witch-hunt started. With great indignation every Asian economy pointed fingers. They were i...
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Regional Aspects of Monetary Policy in Europe
ISBN: 9781441951113 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Monetary union has dawned in Europe. Now that the common currency is a reality, questions concerning the practical conduct of monetary policy in the European Monetary Union (EMU) are moving to the forefront of the policy debate. Among these, one of the most critical is how the new monetary union will cope with the large heterogeneity of its member economies. Given the large differences in economic and financial structures among the EMU member states, monetary policy is likely to affect different member economies in different ways.
Regional Aspects of Monetary Policy in Europe... Monetary union has dawned in Europe. Now that the common currency is a reality, questions concerning the practical conduct of monetary policy in the E...
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Modernisation and Privatisation of Postal Systems in Europe: New Opportunities in the Area of Financial Services
ISBN: 9783642076695 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the positive experience made in 1999, with the research and consequent publication of the volume "Banking Privatisation in Europe. The Process and the Consequences on Strategies and Organisational Structures", published by Springer-Verlag, we have decided to set up a new group of researchers to study the present changes within the European postal systems and the privatisation developments. Starting from our competencies and specific knowledge - financial markets and management of bank intermediaries - our research has basically focussed onto the posts' financial services offer and their...
After the positive experience made in 1999, with the research and consequent publication of the volume "Banking Privatisation in Europe. The Process a...
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Preferential Trade Agreement Policies for Development
ISBN: 9780821386439 / Angielski / Miękka / 511 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economists have repeatedly warned against them, NGOs have fought them, and some governments have begrudgingly (at least in appearance) signed them. Yet, in the last twenty years the growth in number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) has been unabated. Even more strikingly, their scope has broadened while their number was increasing. Deep integration provisions in PTAs have now become ubiquitous. Gaining market access or preserving existing preferences has remained an important motivation for acceding to PTAs. But with the liberalization of trade around the world and the related...
Economists have repeatedly warned against them, NGOs have fought them, and some governments have begrudgingly (at least in appearance) signed them. Ye...
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Competitive-Cum-Cooperative Interfirm Relations and Dynamics in the Japanese Semiconductor Industry
ISBN: 9784431702665 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japanese semiconductor firms are well known for obtaining dynamics in a short period of time and achieving even global leadership. A significant portion of their success are attributable to cooperative interfirm relations and the development of intermediate organizational structure based on long-term relationship between firms. The purpose of this book is to explain how interfirm relations contributed to their dynamics during the golden age of the semiconductor industry. Meanwhile this book clarifies the real source of dynamics in interfirm relations and how the firms have interacted. The...
Japanese semiconductor firms are well known for obtaining dynamics in a short period of time and achieving even global leadership. A significant porti...
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A Better United Nations for the New Millennium: The United Nations System - How It Is Now and How It Should Be in the Future
ISBN: 9789041113443 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The former President of South Africa, H.E. Nelson Mandela, states in the foreword that "the debate on the reform of the United Nations System must move beyond the cost- effectiveness and efficiency issues, to that of relevance". The President of Malta, H.E. Guido de Marco, a former President of the General Assembly calls for a reform that requires "not merely tinkering with the institutional set-up of the Organization but rather a reorientation of the principles projected in the Charter so as to enable them to be applied to current realities". The authors respond by giving a blueprint for a...
The former President of South Africa, H.E. Nelson Mandela, states in the foreword that "the debate on the reform of the United Nations System must mov...
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Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization
ISBN: 9780844741086 / Angielski / Miękka / 111 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this work, the authors examine the problems that are likely to delay China's accession to the World Trade Organization. They propose guidelines for how the WTO should address the accession of not only China, but of other non-market economies as well.
In this work, the authors examine the problems that are likely to delay China's accession to the World Trade Organization. They propose guidelines for...
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