Strategic economy in Japan

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Russell Smyth ... [et al

"China is now opening its protected markets and beginning to submit to the rule of international law. This ongoing transition and increasing participation in the world economy has resulted in significant changes in human resource, management and social welfare practices in China's enterprises. The book examines the key areas, all of which are linked, where China is grappling with institutional reforms as it opens up to the outside world - state-owned enterprise reform, capital markets and financial reform; human resources and labour market reform; social welfare reform; and China's accession to the WTO and the growth of the private sector."--Jacket.

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Marc Quintyn and Geneviève Verdier

"With contributions by experts from official agencies in Africa, international financial institutions, the private sector, and academia, this book focuses on financial sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa and how institutions can play a more active role in economic development"--Provided by publisher.

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Thomas F. Huertas

Crisis: Cause, Containment and Cure explains how the global financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 came about, how it is being contained and what steps should be taken to prevent such a crisis from happening againches Written by the Director of the Banking Sector at the Financial Services Authority, it gives a first-hand view of policy making combined with rigorous economic analysis presented in an easily readable style. It is analytical - not anecdotal - based on up-to-date economic theory and recent policy pronouncements, including both macroeconomic and financial sector aspects. There are numerous books on the crisis but few which have the breadth, analytical rigour and first-hand experience of policy-making offered here by Dr. Huertas. Enhanced with diagrams to illustrate key concepts, this book will be a valuable resource for banks, central banks, public policy makers, banking regulators, law firms, securities associations, finance ministries, students of banking, finance and monetary economics and indeed anyone who seeks a balanced, comprehensive, global authoritative view of the crisis.

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Owen Worth, Phoebe Moore

The semi-periphery, in the form of a state or a production zone within the middle tiers of world production was traditionally regarded as a mediator between the advanced and the 'underdeveloped' parts of the world and was often marked by instability and as a potential revolutionary agent. Work and production continue to divide the rich and the poor, but the actual methods and possibility for the anti-systemic change of globalizing capitalism is revisited in this book. Contributors to this volume speak to one another across chapters to ask what exactly the relevance of the semi-periphery will be. Will it be a transformative entity or not, in the context of the emergence of 'globalization' and specific 'world orders' as forms of explanations within World Politics? This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen our understanding of the semi-periphery, through a range of case studies as well as theoretical chapters.