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Political Economy and Information Capitalism in India: Digital Divide, Development Divide and Equity
ISBN: 9781403992444 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this theoretically and empirically engaging volume, the contributors demonstrate that despite the dynamism of India's software industry and the rhetorical flourishes of industry leaders, at present, the benefits of the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) touch only the hundreds of thousands with the right skills and access. India still needs to do more to bring the benefits of ICTs to the hundreds of millions of its citizens still living in acute poverty. The contributors take stock of the political economy implications of informational development in India.
In this theoretically and empirically engaging volume, the contributors demonstrate that despite the dynamism of India's software industry and the rhe...
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406,31 |
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Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: 9781403994578 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comparing the UK, US, Germany and Japan, this book draws on innovative concepts of varieties of gender regime as well as varieties of capitalism. The volume re-thinks the processes of de-gendering and re-gendering of working practices in the context of both de-regulation and re-regulation of employment.
Comparing the UK, US, Germany and Japan, this book draws on innovative concepts of varieties of gender regime as well as varieties of capitalism. The ...
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406,31 |
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Divergent Paths in Post-Communist Transformation: Capitalism for All or Capitalism for the Few?
ISBN: 9781403996343 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the successes and failures of 27 countries post-communism transformation. Looking at life after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, the book examines and contrasts why some countries have virtually completed their transformation to a liberal polity and economy, while others lag behind.
The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the successes and failures of 27 countries post-communism transformation. Looking at life after the ...
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406,31 |
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African Urban Economies: Viability, Vitality or Vitiation?
ISBN: 9781403999474 / Angielski / Twarda / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century? This book analyzes the economies of East and Southern Africa's 'apex' cities, probing how they have altered structurally over time and their current sources of economic vitality and vulnerability at local, national and international levels. Case study chapters focusing on Johannesburg, Chitungwiza, Gaborone, Maputo, Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Nairobi, Kampala and Mogadishu shed new light on contemporary African urban prospects and problems.
Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century? This book analyzes the economies of Ea...
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406,31 |
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Technology Transfer Via Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe: Theory, Method of Research and Empirical Evidence
ISBN: 9781403999528 / Angielski / Twarda / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies are suggested as one of the main channels of technology transfer to less developed economies. In Central East Europe their presence proved to be a decisive factor to economic restructuring and development. This volume is a unique guide to theory, method of research, and empirical evidence, for technology transfer via foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies. It combines the merits of a core text on technology transfer via FDI with up-to-date empirical evidence.
Foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies are suggested as one of the main channels of technology transfer to less developed economies. In Centr...
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406,31 |
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Conflict Cooperation
ISBN: 9781405113557 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates -the rules of the game, - how institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the impact of alternative institutions, as well as institutional change and evolution. With its broad applications and numerous practice and discussion questions, this book will be appealing not only to students of economics, but also to those studying sociology,...
Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates -the rules of the game, - how in...
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527,87 |
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Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
ISBN: 9781405113564 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates -the rules of the game, - how institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the impact of alternative institutions, as well as institutional change and evolution. With its broad applications and numerous practice and discussion questions, this book will be appealing not only to students of economics, but also to those studying sociology,...
Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates -the rules of the game, - how in...
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255,96 |
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Community and Money: Caring, Gift-giving and Women in a Social Economy
ISBN: 9781551642147 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Proposes new currencies that are direct, personal and motivated by ideals of community, cooperation and reciprocity.
Proposes new currencies that are direct, personal and motivated by ideals of community, cooperation and reciprocity.
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Community and Money
ISBN: 9781551642154 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Proposes new currencies that are direct, personal and motivated by ideals of community, cooperation and reciprocity.
Proposes new currencies that are direct, personal and motivated by ideals of community, cooperation and reciprocity.
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European Regional Policy: The Impact of Structural Transfers and the Partnership Principle Since the 1988 Reform
ISBN: 9781557533548 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work aims to analyze the impact of both the increased structural transfers and the more decentralized regional policy process through the partnership principle, which were the two main features of the 1988 European regional policy reform.
This work aims to analyze the impact of both the increased structural transfers and the more decentralized regional policy process through the partner...
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China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower
ISBN: 9781586484644 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For centuries, China has proven difficult for Americans to understand. Today, however, China is becoming one of the most powerful countries in the world. As the 21st century unfurls, the stakes have never been higher for getting US policy toward China right. The direction that China and US-China relations take will define the strategic future of the world for years to come. No relationship matters more--for better or for worse--in resolving the enduring challenges of our time: maintaining stability among great powers, sustaining global economic growth, stemming dangerous weapons...
For centuries, China has proven difficult for Americans to understand. Today, however, China is becoming one of the most powerful countries in the wor...
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Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity: Diversity and Drift
ISBN: 9781589010314 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity integrates the study of politics and public policy across a broad spectrum of regulatory and social welfare policies in the United States and several nations of Western Europe. The editors and a sterling list of contributors look at policymaking in the 1990s through the present--providing a comparative politics framework--stressing both parallel development and the differences between and among the nations. Similar prevailing ideas and political factors can be identified and transatlantic comparisons made--providing for a clearer... Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity integrates the study of politics and public policy across a broad spectrum of regulatory a... |
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The Broken Mosaic: For an Economics Beyond Equations
ISBN: 9781842776339 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This cogent critique of the narrowness and moral blindness of conventional economics, and its distance from any genuine concern for people's lives, is part autobiographical reflection and part summation of a lifetime's work in developing countries. Ladislau Dowbor rejects both old-fashioned statist economics and utopian 'post-economics' ideas of social organization. Instead, he pulls together a rich mixture of detailed and practical conclusions about economic and social policy, drawing on his own work as an economic adviser in countries as diverse as Poland, Portugal, Guinea Bissau,...
This cogent critique of the narrowness and moral blindness of conventional economics, and its distance from any genuine concern for people's lives, is...
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The Baobab and the Mango Tree: Lessons about Development - African and Asian Contrasts
ISBN: 9781856498104 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book dealing with the big questions about development:
. What is development? . Can Third World countries ever hope to 'catch up'? . Can a development path be found that avoids indefinite impoverishment on the one hand, and environmental destruction on the other? . What is the relationship, if any, between economic growth and political development? . Can a country that has failed hitherto create for itself a second chance? In their wide-ranging and insightful exploration, the authors take as their main examples two contrasting countries: Ghana, the first African... This is a book dealing with the big questions about development: . What is development? . Can Third World countries ever hope to 'catch up'? |
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Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa
ISBN: 9781856498289 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We all know that many African countries face political tyranny, failed capitalist development, and violent domestic conflict. What is less clear is what relationship may exist between effective democratic institutions and the solution of the last two problems. Richard Sandbrook draws on the experience with democratisation of a carefully selected sample of countries: Ghana, Mali and Niger in West Africa; Zambia, Tanzania and Madagascar in East Africa; and Sudan. He illustrates the diversity of African experiences of the transition to democratic political forms and the complex relationships...
We all know that many African countries face political tyranny, failed capitalist development, and violent domestic conflict. What is less clear is wh...
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Co-Management of Natural Resources in Asia: A Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9788791114137 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Co-management -- the sharing of responsibilities between governmental institutions and resource users -- is rapidly becoming popular in Asia. In many countries, environmental management is reformulated from exclusive state control to various kinds of joint management in which local communities, indigenous peoples, and non-governmental organizations share authority and benefits with governmental institutions. In this book, case studies of experiments with co-management in a number of countries are combined with more reflective contributions pointing to underlying assumptions and problems in...
Co-management -- the sharing of responsibilities between governmental institutions and resource users -- is rapidly becoming popular in Asia. In many ...
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Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830
ISBN: 9788791114472 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two very different cities, the one with a trading heritage dating back centuries, the other a new creation spawned by the declining fortunes of the once mighty Dutch East India Company. Melaka was an important commercial entrepot on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula long before it fell to Portugese forces in 1511, but thereafter began an extended process of decline that would continue after the Dutch conquest of the city in 1641. Penang became a significant port after 1786 when 'country traders'... This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two very different cities, the one with a trading herita... |
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Reaching for the Dream: Challenges of Sustainable Development in Vietnam
ISBN: 9788791114489 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transition economies allow the study of fundamental questions about the nature of markets. How do they arise and do they necessarily follow the same modus operandi as markets in other countries? How does the opening of the economy to global market influences affect the process of institutional change? This book focuses on the differentiated ways in which the double transition in Vietnam, from central planning and from under-development, affects various sectors of the population.
Transition economies allow the study of fundamental questions about the nature of markets. How do they arise and do they necessarily follow the same m...
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104,27 |
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From Monobank to Commercial Banking: Financial Sector Reforms in Vietnam
ISBN: 9788791114625 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study analyzes the difficulties and problems encountered in transforming the Vietnamese financial sector from one subordinate to government objectives and goals to an autonomous sector guided by market forces and competitive pressures. Here, the history of financial sector liberalization is traced and close attention paid to the activities and autonomy of the State Bank of Vietnam, the institution responsible for the supervision and regulation of the financial sector in Vietnam.
This study analyzes the difficulties and problems encountered in transforming the Vietnamese financial sector from one subordinate to government objec...
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Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830
ISBN: 9788791114885 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two very different cities, the one with a trading heritage dating back centuries, the other a new creation spawned by the declining fortunes of the once mighty Dutch East India Company. Melaka was an important commercial entrepot on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula long before it fell to Portugese forces in 1511, but thereafter began an extended process of decline that would continue after the Dutch conquest of the city in 1641. Penang became a significant port after 1786 when 'country traders'... This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two very different cities, the one with a trading herita... |
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