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Dilip Das examines the impact of ever-increasing financial globalization on emerging market economies, both in the former communist countries of eastern Europe and the developing world in general.

This book explains the macro-drivers of growth behind the economic development of Bangladesh. It also looks at the strategic interventions on macro-level, specifically the policy interventions.

This interdisciplinary edited volume explores the political economy of regionalism in Latin America. It identifies convergent forces which have existed in the region since its very conception and analyses these dynamics in their different historical, geographic and structural contexts.

Presents an analysis of development policy, strategy and practice in a variety of countries, with equal weight provided to Asia, Latin America and Africa. This book examines the complex network of connections and the implications for international development policy, strategy and practice. It is suitable for academics and practitioners alike.

This reference work sheds light on the industrial development in Africa. It also provides an in-depth look into Chinäs engagement and migrant labour in Africa. The book also addresses the roles of public-private partnership (PPP) and international development cooperation and how they are fundamental to industrialization in Asia and Africa.

TThis comprehensive reference work gives an overview of the industrial development and current state of industrialization and deindustrialization in Asia, specifically Southeast Asia and China. It introduces typologies of industrial policies and discusses the manufacturing sector and its evolving role in the region.

This book analyzes the significant determinants of long run growth in Turkey such as import dependency and saving-investment decision. It focuses on the "neglected" issues, namely the micro, macro, regional and gender aspects of growth, as well as the microeconomic dynamics of growth.

This collection of contributions comes from a worldwide team of experts, including Albert Breton, Piero Giarda and Anwar Shay and critically examines the case for decentralization.

Bringing together an international team of contributors, this book aims to assess the political economy of the IMF and World Bank programs. The contributors include Stephen Coate, Stephen Morris, Ravi Kanbur and Allen Drazen.

Explores how production was organized in the context of the economic development of modern Japan.

Asking the question of whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is 'integrating' the world economy, this volume consists of an overview of FDI research. It is useful for international and development economists.

Investigates immigration and the contribution immigrant enterprise plays in the economic development of cities, such as London, New York, Paris, and Miami, which appear as the living embodiment of globalization. This book demonstrates that the recognition of diversity is a necessary step to understanding winners and losers in immigrant enterprise.

In this volume, a team of policymakers and academics from 14 different countries examine the challenges and options facing policymakers today. The book includes detailed anaysis of individual economies and the broad systematic issues.

This is the first inter-regional comparison of the multimedia industry. Analysing fourteen American, European and Asian regions, it examines the emergence of mulitmedia clusters, issues ranging from economic factors to industrial policy.

Labour economics have received less attention in macroeconomics despite the fact that involuntary unemployment is a pressing policy issue. Here the imbalance is redressed by focusing on labour-demand and labour-supply relationships.

This book covers topics that span theory, policy, and history and range over Latin America, Asia as well as OECD countries.

This book consists of a series of in depth case studies of investor-investee relations, based on extensive empirical research and organized around the principal-agent method, which provide valuable insights into modern UK venture capital practice.

This book explores a series of questions about the differences in the capital markets in Japan, Germany and the United States, and contains empirical and comparative studies from the three countries.

In spite of many years of negotiation on trade liberalization, progress seems to have stalled. This book explores why resistance to further market liberalization seems so strong, when the benefits are seen to outweigh the costs, arguing that in order to understand the slow progress of WTO negotiations, we need to take into consideration the way in which international and domestic aspects of politics and policies have been woven together.

Including case studies of Japan, India, Brazil, Malaysia and many other countries this unique book gives an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the unpredictable and rapidly changing world market in rice.

Well-functioning labour markets are a precondition for economic development. Here leading researchers present an overview of labour market workings providing new theoretical and empirical insights.

Incorporating empirical data and using a variety of methods such as econometrics, general equilibrium and case studies, this volume provides an investigation into the causes of the deterioration in the relative economic fortunes of less-skilled workers across various countries, with a focus on the role of globalization.

When the 2008 housing market bubble burst in the United States, a financial crisis rippled from the epi-center in the United States across borders into economies both near and far, causing persistent social and economic detriment in many countries. The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America: Impacts and Responses is an examination of the impacts and responses in the diverse Latin American region through the lens of three countries: Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina.