Nation states, asserts the world-renowned business strategist Kenichi Ohmae, are dinosaurs waiting to die. In the profoundly important book Ohmae argues that not only have nation states lost their ability to control exchange rates and protect their currencies, but they no langer generate real economic activity.
Over the last two years, the world economy has gone through a major crisis. The twenty-sixth session of UNCTAD’s Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) provides an important opportunity for examining various issues pertaining to corporate accounting and reporting in the context of the financial crisis. The objective of this wor…
The Information Economy Report 2010: ICT, Enterprises and Poverty Alleviation is the fifth in the flagship series published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). As one of few annual reports that monitor global trends related to information and communication technologies (ICTs) from a development perspective, the Report is a valuable reference source for policymake…
Kumpulan artikel yang ditulis oleh Gatot Irianto ini mengulas berbagai permasalahan yang dihadapi sektor pertanian Indonesia. Tetapi bukan hanya itu, untuk setiap masalah penulis juga memberikan solusi. Lewat pengambilan kebijakan yang tepat, kerja sama petani, perbaikan sarana dan prasarana pertanian, serta dukungan seluruh warga negara, artikel ini menunjukkan bahwa mimpi akan Indonesia yang …
The contents of this book: 1. Introduction to International Trade in the World Economy 2. Comparative Advantage I: Labor Productivity and Trade 3. Comparative Advantage II: Factor Endowments and Trade 4. Trade, Distribution, and Welfare 5. Beyond Comparative Advantage: Empirical Evidence and New Trade Theories 6. Tariffs, etc.
There is no country on earth that might have a greater need than Indonesia to be concerned about its ocean space and resources. For centuries at a crossroad of the international trade, with geo-strategically located at the epicenter of global economy. forming the world's largest achipelago (more than 17,500 island), and possessing the greatest marine biodiversity of any region of the world, Ind…
This book about China's integration into the world economy proposes a radically different perspective. Most economists view China's large foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows as the result of China's economic success. This study views the same phenomenon as a function of the imperfections in the Chinese economic system. It uses economic theory to explain FDI to a greater extent than previous…
The world is on the verge of the most sweeping economic changes since the Industrial Revolution. National economies are transforming from government-controlled market systems into an open international marketplace under no one's control. The consequences will be both exhilarating and terrifying. Market Unbound is the first compelling blueprint for adapting to this new global market. According …
In the age of globalization, both domestic and foreign economic policies play an important role in determining firms' strategies. At the same time, firms' choices have a greater impact on economic policymaking in a global economy, as the range of alternatives open to them expands. Nicola Acocella analyzes both sides of this relationship and places special emphasis on current issues. Broad in sc…
Globalization, like many great geopolitical ideologies before it, is now dead. Despite the almost-religious certainty with which it was originally conceived, a growing vagueness now surrounds the original promise of the global ideal that the fading power of nation states would be replaced by global markets that economics, not politics or arms, would determine the course of human events and that…