This book tells the story of China's emergence as a major economic power and the huge impact this will have on world business. Over the last five years Peter Nolan has conducted a major investigation into Chinese industry, its economic structure, and the opportunities for growth in the future. As one of just four world experts invited by the Chinese Government to consult on their application to…
The great processes reshaping our world today can be summed up by the term "globalisation". Together with the communications revolution and massive urbanisation, it is reshaping theorganisation of global space. It is illustrated by technological change, pronounced economic growth, the dominance of giant corporations, ever more open markets and universal consumption. Dramatic developments have o…
Buku ini berisi: 1. Pendahuluan: Mengejar Ketertinggalan Infrastruktur 2. Pangan: Membangun Waduk Menjaga Kedaulatan Air 3. Program Strategis Konektivitas 4. Permukiman dan Perumahan 5. Pemerataan Pembangunan
Contents: 1. Economics and the economy 2. Economics and development 3. Development of the regions.
A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top political, environmental, and social problems that contribute to poverty.
This report provides a general introduction to the problems of development as seen by the developing country. It has been produced by the South Commission, which was established in 1987, with Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania as its Chairman and Manmohan Sing as Secretary General. This report is a follow-up to the 1983 Brandt Commission Common North-South Co-operation for World Recovery. …
From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which p…
This study evaluates the costs and benefits of nuclear arms control treaties between the US and the Soviet Union/Russian Federation. The report finds that, although the implementation and verification of nuclear arms control regimes can be expensive, these costs pale into insignificance compared to the costs and risks of nuclear rearmament and the consequences of a nuclear arms race.
In Asian Juggernaut, the revelatory and important International Bestseller by Brahma Chellaney, a renowned authority on Asia’s political and economic development offers an incisive and insightful analysis of the region’s pivotal role on the world stage. Examining the rise of China, India, and Japan as preeminent powers and their key position in the global future, Asian Juggernaut is a book …
This volume, based on a series analysis using up-to-date econometric technique, systematically investigates the role that exports and foreign direct investment (FDI) have played in China's development process, and questions the received wisdom that exports and FDI are always an unalloyed blessing. It focuses on the transmission mechanisms through which exports and FDI influence growth and econo…