The need for better understanding of the role location plays in economic life was first and most famously made explicit by Bertil Ohlin in 1933. However it is only recently, with the development of computer packages able to handle complex systems, as well as advances in economic theory, that Ohlin's vision has been met and a framework developed which explains the distribution of economic activi…
The book concentrates on the social and cultural factors which lie behind the current Nepal crisis locating the root cause in the Brahmin-Chhetri minority which dominates Kathmandu and other towns. Fatalism and the caste system still flourish behind the facade of modern bureaucracy, at all levels of government, in education, foreign aid, politics and administration. The author attempts to disti…
This book focuses both on specific regional organizations like ASEAN, The Asian Development Bank and APEC, as well as on key institutions such as East Asian legal systems, the media, organized labour, Asian business systems, and the developmental state.
In False Economy, Alan Beattie weaves together the economic choices, political choices, economic history, and human stories, that determine whether governments and countries remain rich or poor. False Economy is a lively and lucid book that engagingly and thought-provokingly examines macroeconomics, economic topics, and the fault lines and successes that can make or break a culture or induce…
The content of this book: 1. Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Context 2. Lessons from World Bank Experience 3. A New Reconstructions Framework
Negara industri berusaha menjarah Dunia Ketiga melalui forum yang dalam negosiasi ekonomi yang dilakukan dalam Putaran Uruguay. Tetapi, negara-negara Dunia Ketiga melawan upaya itu. Besar taruhannya, karena kedaulatan Dunia Ketiga dan posisi Selatan di dalam tata ekonomi dunia yang tidak adil ini sangat tergantung pada hasil pergulatan itu. Buku ini memaparkan konflik Utara-Selatan dalam menang…
Buku ini merupakan wacana bagaimana perekonomian Asia Tenggara, ditambah Jepang dan sekitarnya yang maju bersama dalam kehidupan perekonomiannya. Gambaran perekonomian dijelaskan secara gamblang karena yang menulis adalah tim Bank Indonesia agar masyarakat semakin paham cetak biru perekonomian di Asia Timur.
This book offers effective strategies to help erase poverty. It advocates self-reliance, policy reform and cultural awareness. Accountability is required from all; the middle class, the trust fund babies and the underprivileged who see themselves as perpetual victims and have fallen into the entitlement trap. True Blue-prints are offered to rescue people from an economical slump and help them i…
Buku ini berisi: 1. Kisah-kisah yang mematikan 2. Kisah-kisah kehidupan 3. Membayangkan sebuah dunia pasca-korporasi 4. Pulang kembali ke kehidupan.
A witty and accessible tour de force that is immersed in the latest economic thinking, Culture and Prosperity is an indispensable guide to the world around us and destined to become a classic text for understanding the politics of globalization.Guided by the belief that a combination of lightly regulated capitalism and liberal democracy -- the American business model -- is not just appropriate …