ilość książek w kategorii: 17004
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Financial Regulation : Why, How and Where Now?
ISBN: 9780415185042 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a restatement of the purposes and objectives of financial regulation. The authors provide details and data on the scale, nature and costs of regulatory problems around the world, and look at what sort of countries and sectors require special attention and policies. Key topics covered include: the need to recast the form of regulation; incentive structures for financial regulation; proportionality; new techniques for risk management; regulation in emerging countries; crisis management; and prospects for financial regulation in the future.
This volume presents a restatement of the purposes and objectives of financial regulation. The authors provide details and data on the scale, nature a...
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881,59 |
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Microdynamics of Technological Change
ISBN: 9780415190527 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a comprehensive assessment of the economic effects of the emerging information and communication technologies associated with a knowledge-based economy, and looks at how knowledge is increasingly treated as a product in its own right.
An original framework is developed to comprehend these fundamental shifts, based on three bodies of knowledge: * the economics of path dependence and of historical time as they are elaborated in the economics of new technologies * economic topology based on the methodology of network analysis * the new economics of knowledge... This volume presents a comprehensive assessment of the economic effects of the emerging information and communication technologies associated with a k...
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881,59 |
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Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfers: Impacts on and Prospects for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780415191111 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Nagesh Kumar and expert contributors examine and explain the emerging patterns in international technology transfers and foreign direct investment flows (FDIs) over the past two decades. They analyse the trends in internationalization of corporate activity in individual source countries, discussing outflows from both major and emerging source countries. This departs from the existing treatments of FDI as homogenous resource and allows for a more detailed prediction of future outflow patterns. Throughout, the research focuses upon the implications of new trends for developing...
In this book, Nagesh Kumar and expert contributors examine and explain the emerging patterns in international technology transfers and foreign direct ...
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734,66 |
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Small Enterprises and Economic Development: The Dynamics of Micro and Small Enterprises
ISBN: 9780415193511 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) have been recognized as a major contemporary source of employment and income in a growing number of developing countries. Yet, relatively little is known about the characteristics and patterns of change in these enterprises. This volume examines the dynamics of MSEs in the development process. Drawing on a unique set of surveys conducted in twelve countries in Africa and Latin America the authors map the patterns of change in MSEs in the developing world.
Subjects covered include: * significance of new start and closure rates of MSEs * factors... Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) have been recognized as a major contemporary source of employment and income in a growing number of developing coun...
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cena:
881,59 |
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Recovery from Armed Conflict in Developing Countries: An Economic and Political Analysis
ISBN: 9780415193795 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive work examines ways in which developing countries may achieve economic, political and social reconstruction in the wake of armed conflict. International researchers discuss such issues as women and children in the recovery process, refugees and the role of aid, the reintegration of ex-combatants and community-led recovery. Case studies focus upon Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Mozambique, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
This comprehensive work examines ways in which developing countries may achieve economic, political and social reconstruction in the wake of armed con...
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747,55 |
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Europe and Developing Countries in the Globalized Information Economy: Employment and Distance Education
ISBN: 9780415197045 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores the impact of information and communications technologies on the changing economic relationship between Europe and the Developing World, in the context of telematics-related trade, work organization and distance education. The contributors elucidate the reasons why the phenomenon of globalization need not be a battleground of competing nations. The essays written by researchers and practitioners, from the European Union and Developing Countries, identify the areas where policy interventions could lead to co-operative competition between the EU and the developing world. The...
This text explores the impact of information and communications technologies on the changing economic relationship between Europe and the Developing W...
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195,86 |
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China's Industrial Technology : Market Reform and Organisational Change
ISBN: 9780415197410 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a comprehensive review of reform policy, followed by an examination of major approaches to institutional restructuring, Shulin Gu explores the way in which China's industrial technology has responded to economic reforms. At the heart of the work is the argument that market reform and organisational change are closely interdependent. Gu outlines the interaction of the two in China and reveals the damage which may result if market reform is not accompanied by new organisational design. Analysis of these issues is drawn from first-hand experience of Chinese technology systems, supported...
Offering a comprehensive review of reform policy, followed by an examination of major approaches to institutional restructuring, Shulin Gu explores th...
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661,20 |
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Technology, Competitiveness and the State: Malaysia's Industrial Technology Policies
ISBN: 9780415197656 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume, and its companion, Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development. The focus is on role played by state-sponsored innovation in the process economic development and in the context of national development strategies. Technology, Competitiveness and the State, provides a valuable analysis of the technological development of a Newly Industrializing Country and reflects on whether existing development strategies can be maintained in the...
This volume, and its companion, Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of i...
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1077,50 |
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Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia: Industry and Firm Studies
ISBN: 9780415197663 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, and its companion, Technology, Competitiveness and the State, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development. The focus is on the development of Malaysia's technological-industrial base from a sector and firm-specific perspective, including the role of foreign multinationals in this process. Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia, provides a valuable analysis of the technological development of a Newly Industrializing Country and reflects on whether existing development...
This book, and its companion, Technology, Competitiveness and the State, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its exp...
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1134,21 |
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Third World Cities
ISBN: 9780415198820 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This imformative book is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic introduction to urbanization in developing areas. Using case studies of cities drawn from around the world, including Bangkok, Delhi, Manila, Mexico City, Singapore and cities in Zimbabwe, this key text confronts three main questions: Is there still a Third World, does it have a common urban form, and what is the relationship between urbanization and sustainability? The text analyzes:
This imformative book is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic introduction to urbanization in developing areas. Using case studi... |
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254,64 |
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Corporatism and Korean Capitalism
ISBN: 9780415200523 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corporatism and Korean Capitalism employs corporatist theory to examine the Korean experience of state-business ties. It includes theoretical chapters on Asian and Korean corporatism, case studies of agriculture, industry and industrial relations and an introduction to comparative corporatism. It helps to push the study of Korean political and economic change from description on to theoretical analysis.
This volume will challenge researchers and students of Asian studies, economics and politics to extend and refine their understanding of both corporatism and Korea. Moreover, this... Corporatism and Korean Capitalism employs corporatist theory to examine the Korean experience of state-business ties. It includes theoretical...
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181,17 |
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Governance, The State, Regulation and Industrial Relations
ISBN: 9780415202633 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the legacy of economics and political aims and objectives formulated by the British government during, and immediately after, World War II. The book examines contemporary patterns of regulation by the state, and reform in the industrial relations system, as factors of historically-embedded influences on the state such as these. By doing so, the author develops a historically-informed yet contemporary theory of the British state. A significant proportion of post-war economic and political literature has highlighted the adverse effect of embedded patterns of industrial relations on...
Examines the legacy of economics and political aims and objectives formulated by the British government during, and immediately after, World War II. T...
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759,15 |
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Population, Economic Growth and Agriculture in Less Developed Countries
ISBN: 9780415202909 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1950 the world population was 2.5 billion; fifty years later there are over 6 billion people. The demographic of this explosion has essentially occurred in the developing areas of the world. The key to understanding many contemporary development problems that have arisen from this rapid growth is in understanding the relationships between population and the economy.
This book offers an analysis of such relationships, encompassing a review of the major positions in the academic debate. Population, Economic Growth and Agriculture in Less Developed Countries will serve as a... In 1950 the world population was 2.5 billion; fifty years later there are over 6 billion people. The demographic of this explosion has essentially occ...
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881,59 |
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Industrial Policy in Europe: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Proposals
ISBN: 9780415204934 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After a decade or more of privatisation and deregulation there is a growing consensus that government can have a positive role in promoting industrial development. This book explores a variety of ways in which this might be made to happen. A common theme is the need for participation at the appropriate level: too often industrial policy has been hampered by overcentralised decision-making. Containing contributions by some of Europe's leading industrial economists, Industrial Policy for Europe covers subjects from small business to macroeconomics.
After a decade or more of privatisation and deregulation there is a growing consensus that government can have a positive role in promoting industrial...
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930,57 |
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The Political Economy of Development and Environment in Korea
ISBN: 9780415205368 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at Korea's economic, social and spatial development processes from the early Modernisation period to the financial crisis of 1997. It focuses on the political and ideological control of the state during the developmental era, as well as the environmental problems of Korea, and examines how society and environment have been used as means to attain rapid accumulation. Providing an holistic approach to Korean development, this title allows a comprehensive view of Korea's economic miracle as well as its recent problems.
This book looks at Korea's economic, social and spatial development processes from the early Modernisation period to the financial crisis of 1997. It ...
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734,66 |
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Development
ISBN: 9780415205412 / Angielski / Twarda / 3000 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This six-volume set is divided into four sets of readings. The first set locates development as a critical concept within the social sciences. The second set examines the causes and consequences of development as a great transformation. Key topics include: the transformation of peasant economies; agribusiness; rural-urban relations; markets; industrialization; workers; trade; and aid and structural adjustment. The third set of readings considers the politics of development, looking in turn at states, civil societies, NGOs, corruption and resistance. The final readings looks at visions of...
This six-volume set is divided into four sets of readings. The first set locates development as a critical concept within the social sciences. The sec...
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8081,25 |
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Westernizing the Third World: The Eurocentricity of Economic Development Theories
ISBN: 9780415205733 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second edition of this successful and popular text has been updated and revised to include recent issues in development economics.
Significant new additions include: * Asian values and development * democracy, human rights and good governance * globalization and development * boxed summaries of key arguments and glossary. Westernizing the Third World identifies the mainstream economic theories which have been employed in developing countries. The author examines these and explains why Eurocentric concepts are not suitable for the developing world. The second edition of this successful and popular text has been updated and revised to include recent issues in development economics.
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930,57 |
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Westernizing the Third World: The Eurocentricity of Economic Development Theories
ISBN: 9780415205740 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second edition of this successful and popular text has been updated and revised to include recent issues in development economics.
Significant new additions include: * Asian values and development * democracy, human rights and good governance * globalization and development * boxed summaries of key arguments and glossary. Westernizing the Third World identifies the mainstream economic theories which have been employed in developing countries. The author examines these and explains why Eurocentric concepts are not suitable for the developing world. The second edition of this successful and popular text has been updated and revised to include recent issues in development economics.
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303,61 |
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Politics and Society in the Developing World
ISBN: 9780415212335 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a welcome new edition, which completely updates and revises the very popular first edition, Politics and Society in the Third World. Mehran Kamrava has brought the book in line with the major changes in global politics, and the politics and social issues of the developing world.
The book examines key issues such as democratisation: civil society organisations and NGOs, 'political society', state collapse, democratic bargains and transition, consolidation and problems of legitimacy, elections, multi-party politics; industrial development; dependency theory and... This book is a welcome new edition, which completely updates and revises the very popular first edition, Politics and Society in the Third World. ...
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930,57 |
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Politics and Society in the Developing World
ISBN: 9780415212342 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is a completely updated and revised version of the first edition, Politics and Society in the Third World. Mehran Kamrava has brought the book in line with the major changes in global politics, and the politics and social issues of the developing world. The book examines key issues such as democratization; civil society organizations and NGOs; political society; state collapse; democratic bargains and transition; consolidation and problems of legitimacy; elections; multi-party politics; industrial development; dependency theory and globalization; the roles of the IMF and the World...
This text is a completely updated and revised version of the first edition, Politics and Society in the Third World. Mehran Kamrava has brought the bo...
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279,12 |