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This book situates culture as a determining factor in the development of diverse welfare states, exploring the impact of traditional familialism on South Korean and Taiwanese programs.This approach provides an important alternative to studies that focus on formal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-08
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This book sheds light on the dollarization trends of four transitional economies in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Moving beyond the tendency to focus on the Latin American experience of dollarization and prolonged high inflation, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-01
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IDE-JETRO Series
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This book presents contributions by leading academics and practitioners from central banks to shed light on the function and impact of cash in Asian countries. It explores the impact of cash on society, the role of cash in monetary policy, and the future of cash in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-25
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This book examines the uneven economy in Asia, showing how the pace of economic transformation affects prosperity and the emerging middle class. Using the Lewis turning point and the long run cycle of the rise and fall of nations as a framework, it demonstrates how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-13
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This book provides a historical economic analysis of two key issues relating to township and village enterprise (TVE) development in China. Firstly, the nature of the evolving relationship between TVEs and local government; in particular how TVE entrepreneurs have used...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-11
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The main objective of this book is to identify the key sources of growth which have played a significant role in Africa's recent robust growth as well as its efforts towards economic transformation.The book assesses to what extent the existing macroeconomic frameworks...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-11
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This book explains the political origins and evolution of capitalist institutions in developing countries by looking at distinct patterns in the electronics industry in three Southeast Asian countries: Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. An analysis of the political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-11
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This book sheds light on ?the Soviet economic system, which claimed the eventual abolition of money, collapsed following a monetary turmoil. It argues that the cause of the economic collapse was embedded in the design of the economic system. The Soviet economic system...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-08
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This book sheds new light on the critical importance of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), a remarkably successful central bank that is a model for developing oil exporters worldwide. As a "swing producer", Saudi Arabia has traditionally stepped in to make up for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-18
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Central banks play an important role in the course of national economies and the global economy. Their leaders are regularly feted or vilified, their policy pronouncements highly anticipated and routinely scrutinized. This is all the more so since the global financial...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-07-17
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This book analyses Jamaica’s ability to satisfy its short and long run foreign currency obligations in light of recurrent balance of payment support from international lending agencies. Jamaica is one of the top five indebted nations in the world, and despite entering...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-06
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This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese village of Ninh Hi?^p along the Red River Delta, which became a major hub for textiles in the wake of the country’s shift towards market socialism....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-04
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This book provides an up-to-date overview of the development of the German financial system, with a particular focus on financialization and the financial crisis, topics that have increasingly gained attention since the crisis and the discussion on the secular...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-05-26
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This book describes and refutes thirteen ideas involving free market principles and the US economic system, arguing that these (mostly familiar) ideas are myths. The myths are deeply ingrained in the United States' self-image and in political discourse, and are hailed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-26
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This book, comprised of entirely original research, collects data on the socioeconomic situation of China’s 56 ethnic groups. Although the majority of China’s population is of the Han nationality (which accounts for more than 90% of China’s population), the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-27
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This book presents the results of a collective and original empirical investigation of the institutional systems underlying the capitalisms that are coming to the fore in developing nations. While varieties of industrialized countries’ capitalisms are extensively...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-06
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This book analyzes the role played by initial endowments and colonizer identity in seeking to explain institutional development in former colonies. It presents a model of two styles of imperialism that integrates the colonial origin and endowment views explaining...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-23
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This book takes a new look at the golden age in neoclassical growth theory and explores in detail sustainability and optimum growth in China, the US and Europe. Innovation, foreign direct investment, trade and growth dynamics are key elements in modern economies –...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-02-16
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This book provides a comprehensive overview and economic analysis of US consumer demand for televised football (soccer). Accounting for transnational demand, research is focused on the US consumers demand for the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-06
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This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the Mauritian economy and its financial system. The author investigates the pre- and post- crisis financial and economic environment of Mauritius thoroughly and looks to the future potential development of the economy....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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