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India's Persistent Dilemma: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform
ISBN: 9780367016760 / Angielski / Twarda / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study shows that the failure of successive Indian governments to effect meaningful agrarian reforms has led to a political economy in rural India that is shaped, as it was prior to independence, largely by the interests of an elite minority of landholders. This group, Jannuzi argues, has worked both to deny the socioeconomic changes promised by modern India's own founders and to thwart the needs and interests of the rural majority who continue to lack secure rights in land. Examining the government's inability to establish a coherent national program for agrarian reform, the author...
This study shows that the failure of successive Indian governments to effect meaningful agrarian reforms has led to a political economy in rural India...
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710,17 |
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Science, Politics, and the Agricultural Revolution in Asia
ISBN: 9780367286736 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Agriculture in southern Asia has undergone a radical transformation in recent years, one that continues to alter the political economy of the area. Beyond the familiar elements of the green revolution, there has been an increase in resource exploitation for food production, and a rise in the economic and political strength of food producers, as wel
Agriculture in southern Asia has undergone a radical transformation in recent years, one that continues to alter the political economy of the area. Be...
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710,17 |
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Ngos and Women's Development in Rural South India: A Comparative Analysis
ISBN: 9780367015961 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Business Associations and the New Political Economy of Thailand: From Bureaucratic Polity to Liberal Corporatism
ISBN: 9780367016340 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This outstanding contribution to our understanding of Thailand’s political economic system is perhaps the first major English-language work that provides an up-to-date analysis of the country widely hailed as Asia’s next newly industrialized country. Dr. Laothamatas argues that, at least in the realm of economic decision-making, Thailand has moved away from a pure form of bureaucratic polity to a system he refers to as liberal corporatism. He presents detailed empirical data regarding chambers of commerce, their peak organizations, and the nation’s trade associations, all of which will...
This outstanding contribution to our understanding of Thailand’s political economic system is perhaps the first major English-language work that pro...
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710,17 |
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Asia's Nuclear Future
ISBN: 9780367017934 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Future historians are very likely to see nuclear proliferation—or the averting of nuclear proliferation—as one of the central determinants of international politics in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Certainly the development of an independent nuclear deterrent by the People's Republic of China and the possibility that Taiwan, Korea, Jap
Future historians are very likely to see nuclear proliferation—or the averting of nuclear proliferation—as one of the central determinants of inte...
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710,17 |
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Industrial Policies in the Pacific
ISBN: 9780367008918 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In GATT negotiations over the past several years the United States, a founding member of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, has been pushing hard for a global liberalization of trade in services. This development would have special significance for the Pacific because of the intensifying competition between the United States and Japan for market shares. A comprehensive analysis of the service sector's role in that dynamic region is offered in this timely volume. Leading experts explore how service enterprises have affected trade in goods and transnational manufacturing, forming a...
In GATT negotiations over the past several years the United States, a founding member of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, has been pushing...
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710,17 |
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Korea's Political Economy: An Institutional Perspective
ISBN: 9780367016838 / Angielski / Twarda / 742 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past three decades, South Korea has moved along a path of strong economic growth and political democratization, attracting worldwide attention and providing valuable lessons for other developing economies. Yet Korea still must grapple with many intractable problems fueled by its rapid industrialization and uneven growth, including unbalanced distribution of wealth, concentrated economic power, and adversarial relationships between management and labor. Within the context of these sweeping changes, this volume explores options for economic and social institutional reform in Korea....
Over the past three decades, South Korea has moved along a path of strong economic growth and political democratization, attracting worldwide attentio...
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710,17 |
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China's Four Modernizations: The New Technological Revolution: The New Technological Revolution
ISBN: 9780367021689 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the death of Mao Tse-tung and the subsequent purge of the "Gang of Four," China's new pragmatic leaders have embarked on a crash program of national development known as the Four Modernizations, This program is geared to the primary objective of turning China into a major world economic and military power by the year 2000. In this book, the outgrowth of a major international conference on China's post-Maoist development, ten distinguished analysts examine one of the core issues in China's current modernization drive: the acquisition and use of modern industrial science and technology....
With the death of Mao Tse-tung and the subsequent purge of the "Gang of Four," China's new pragmatic leaders have embarked on a crash program of natio...
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710,17 |
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Asian Labor Migration: Pipeline to the Middle East
ISBN: 9780367010447 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Labor migration from Asia to the oil-exporting countries in the Middle East has burgeoned in the last decade to a current level of over two million workers. Because foreign labor contracts have become a potent source of foreign exchange to the sending countries in Asia as well as a safety valve for high unemployment, the export of labor has become
Labor migration from Asia to the oil-exporting countries in the Middle East has burgeoned in the last decade to a current level of over two million wo...
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710,17 |
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China's Political-Military Evolution: The Party and the Military in the Prc, 1960-1984
ISBN: 9780367008321 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has relinquished much of its political power to China's civilian leadership and has turned to the task of professionalizing the military. The transition of the PLA into a relatively apolitical force in Chinese society has occurred alongside great progress toward military modernization, with the foundation now laid for the PLA to become one of the world's most powerful military forces. Dr. Bullard traces the PLA's extremely important and almost revolutionary transition, examines the structural changes associated with it, and assesses current...
In recent years the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has relinquished much of its political power to China's civilian leadership and has turned to the t...
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710,17 |
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Food, Agriculture, and Development in the Pacific Basin: Prospects for International Collaboration in a Dynamic Economy
ISBN: 9780367006051 / Angielski / Twarda / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is concerned with the management of food production and the distribution of food in the Pacific Basin, exploring food's potential for engendering both increased conflict and cooperation in the region. The authors begin by discussing the role of food and agriculture in the international economy and the implications of two contrasting approaches to food security: international trade and self-sufficiency. They also consider the problem of international migration of labor in the region and look at how agriculture can contribute to the development of the economy in individual countries....
This book is concerned with the management of food production and the distribution of food in the Pacific Basin, exploring food's potential for engend...
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710,17 |
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Middle East Avenue: Female Migration from Sri Lanka to the Gulf
ISBN: 9780367011499 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributing to the literature on labor migration from less developed countries to the Gulf states, this sociological analysis focuses on the case of Sri Lanka’s large-scale exportation of its poorest women to serve as housemaids in private Arab homes. Dr. Brochmann provides a multileveled examination of the social structures that precondition the migration. Considering the household, the village, and Sri Lanka in the world economy, Middle East Avenue probes the causes of this traffic and its effects on the economy, society, and gender relations of the participants.
Contributing to the literature on labor migration from less developed countries to the Gulf states, this sociological analysis focuses on the case of ...
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710,17 |
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China's National Income, 1952-1995
ISBN: 9780367005450 / Angielski / Twarda / 639 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains the most complete set of the Chinese national income and its components based on system of national accounts. It points out some fundamental issues concerning the estimation of China's national income and it is intended to the students of the field of China study around the world.
This book contains the most complete set of the Chinese national income and its components based on system of national accounts. It points out some fu...
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China's Opening to the Outside World: The Experiment with Foreign Capitalism
ISBN: 9780367014599 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an attempt towards developing an understanding of China's "policy of opening up to the outside." It includes a study that focuses on three important Chinese foreign economic policies: policies that concern foreign investment, international trade, and Special Economic Zones.
This book is an attempt towards developing an understanding of China's "policy of opening up to the outside." It includes a study that focuses on thre...
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710,17 |
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Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan: Life and Politics During the Soviet Era
ISBN: 9781349705948 / Angielski / Miękka / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers perspectives from the general public in post-Soviet Central Asia and reconsiders the meaning and the legacy of Soviet administration in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. This study emphasizes that the way in which people in Central Asia reconcile their Soviet past to a great extent refers to the three-fold process of recollecting their everyday experiences, reflecting on their past from the perspective of their post-Soviet present, and re-imagining. These three elements influence memories and lead to selectivity in memory construction. This process also emphasizes the...
This volume offers perspectives from the general public in post-Soviet Central Asia and reconsiders the meaning and the legacy of Soviet administratio...
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241,50 |
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China and the Challenge of the Future: Changing Political Patterns
ISBN: 9780367003722 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book highlights information obtained from formal interviews and informal conversations with knowledgeable Chinese in 1985-1987. It reveals the growing participation in politics of social groups and related changes underway in the patterns of contemporary Chinese political thought and culture.
This book highlights information obtained from formal interviews and informal conversations with knowledgeable Chinese in 1985-1987. It reveals the gr...
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710,17 |
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Money, Banking, and Financial Markets in China
ISBN: 9780367011505 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reviews how the current banking system in China has emerged from the all-inclusive monobank system in the past. It discusses the money supply mechanism, evaluates monetary policies, analyzes the monetization process, and provides a summary of the development of financial markets.
This book reviews how the current banking system in China has emerged from the all-inclusive monobank system in the past. It discusses the money suppl...
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710,17 |
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China's Provincial Statistics, 1949-1989
ISBN: 9780367011765 / Angielski / Twarda / 621 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's Provincial Statistics, 1949-1989 provides a systematic compilation of China's regional statistics on various aspects of the thirty provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, presenting more than 100 economic and social variables under 15 categories.
China's Provincial Statistics, 1949-1989 provides a systematic compilation of China's regional statistics on various aspects of the thirty provinces, ...
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710,17 |
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The China Quandary: Domestic Determinants of U.S. China Policy, 1972-1982
ISBN: 9780367290788 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the United States has established formal diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC), achieving major advances in economic and cultural relations, it continues to be bedevilled by serious dilemmas regarding such issues as future relations with Taiwan, U.S.-PRC military ties, the extent and type of U.S. aid to China, and the need for secrecy in U.S. China policy versus traditional American demands for "open" diplomacy. U.S. scholars have been clear about the international factors influencing current U.S.-PRC relations; however, the domestic political factors that...
Although the United States has established formal diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC), achieving major advances in economic...
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710,17 |
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The Sino-Japanese Wars: The History and Legacy of the Early 20th Century Conflicts that Made Japan the Dominant Power in Asia
ISBN: 9781726258838 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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