The book expounds major theoretical and practical issues facing China during the on-going transition to a market economy. It covers six special topics, namely: 1. Essential issues concerning China's transition to a market economy 2. Macro-control and regulation of the socialist market economy 3. Restructuring state-owned enterprises 4. Issues related to the socialist market economic syste…
On June 25 and 26, 1999, the Ministers for Development Cooperation of the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom met on the Norwegian island of Utstein. These four Ministers decided to join forces and intensify their cooperation on a number of issues and since that meeting they have become known as "the Utstein Group." One of the issues the Utstein Ministers decided to tackle join…
Covering both Western and Eastern Europe, Refugees: Asylum in Europe? provides a clear and thorough analysis of the historic and current factors affecting refugee flight, acceptance and settlement in Europe, international conventions and government legislation, the racist backlash against refugees and how individuals, organizations and governments can challenge these prejudices.
As Secretary of State and a close confidant of President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice is the most influential woman in the history of the United States government, and perhaps one of the most famous black women in the world. Her latest stint in Washington, D.C., follows her role as National Security Advisor to the President and a distinguished career as scholar, professor, provost, and fore…
World-renowned futurist Hazel Henderson extends her twenty-five years of work in economics to examine the havoc the current economic system is creating at the global level. Markets are now spreading worldwide - a spread which is often equated with the hope of democracy spreading along with it. But markets still run on old textbook models that ignore social and environmental costs - leading to a…
While many topics and issues are canvassed here, overall the book pursues three fundamental themes. First, it focuses on why environmental economics in practice is not primarily an exercise in estimating the value of pollution damages and then promulgating taxes to make polluters internalize those harms, but consists mainly of applied cost-benefit analysis. Of course, many researchers are occup…
Contents : I. Introduction II. European security and defence identify III. L'Enfer, c'est les autres : Is the European armament industry to be damned or saved? IV. NATO Enlargement - A done deal? V. NATO's Balkan peace implementation
The contents of this book: 1. The International Arms Trade, Arms Imports, and Local Defence Production in ASEAN 2. Arms Production in the newly Industrializing Countries: Political, Economic, and Technological Implications 3. Indonesia's Defence Industry: Its Role, Mission, and Set-Up
This book contains the report to the conference - prepared for the general discussion on social security and sets out the key topics and priorities for providing and managing social security systems. Global trends in social security expenditure are covered, as the report addresses such pivotal questions as: Is social security facing an ageing crisis? Is it facing a globalization crisis? Has it …
Buku ini membahas mengenai kamus perdagangan internasional yang dapat menuntun para pembaca terutama praktisi dan juga pemerhati perdagangan internasional untuk memahami berbagai istilah yang ada. Buku ini juga menghimpun berbagai istilah, referensi dan juga keterangan yang terkait dengan sistem perdagangan internasional yang dimaksudkan untuk dapat menjadi acuan.