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The South Centre therefore felt it opportune to make available on the eve of the Monterrey Conference, a selection of its documents on financing for development assembled in a single volume, as an example and approaches from the South.
Based on methodological individualism and a public-choice approach to social theory, this book provides an analysis of the interdependence of economic development, social order and interstate conflict.
The Annual Report 2005 to the Board of Governors reviews the IMF's activities and policies during the financial year (May 1, 2004, through April 30, 2005). The main sections cover country, global, and regional surveillance; strengthening surveillance and crisis prevention; IMF program support and crisis resolution; the Fund's role in low-income countries; financial operations and policies; tech…
‘Leadership Perspectives’ is a collection of speeches by President of Kazakhstan Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev on a large scale of issues – starting from topical international problems to institutional reforms, modernization and an economic development of Kazakhstan. The book begins with a quotation by the leader of Kazakhstan, as well as a statement by British Prime Minister Mr. David Cameron…
Red China Blues is Wong's startling and ironic memoir of her rocky six-year romance with Maoism that began to sour as she became aware of the harsh realities of Chinese communism and led to her eventual repatriation to the West. Returning to China in the late eighties as a journalist, she covered both the brutal Tiananmen Square crackdown and the tumultuous era of capitalist reforms under Deng …
What Next? tackles the big questions about our global condition and our collective future with a verve and authority no other current commentator or political figure, on either side of the Atlantic or the Channel, could match. Energy, food, water, international crime, weapons proliferation, drug trafficking, climate change, epidemic disease, migration - the challenges facing our world are thems…
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations and governments have embraced the idea of a global village: a shrinking, booming world in which everyone benefits. What if that's not the case? Alex Perry, award-winning foreign correspondent, travels from the South China Sea to the highlands of Afghanistan to the Sahara to see first-hand globalization at the sharp end -- and it's no…
This book tells the story of Burma's financial system - of its banks, moneylenders and 'microfinanciers' - from colonial times to the present day. It argues that Burma's financial system matters, and that the careful study of this system can tell us something more general about Burma - not least about how the richest country in Southeast Asia at the dawn of the twentieth century, became the poo…
Reveals explosive changes currently taking place in Asia while considering how these changes will affect the rest of the world, predicting a major shift in international economic forces.