Bringing together nine leading writers and activists from around the world, this book explores the origins of a new age of Empire. Writers including Walden Bello, Jayati Ghosh, Kate Hudson, Boris Kagarlitsky and Alan Freeman offer a wealth of factual evidence showing that globalisation has driven apart peoples, classes and nations, shaping and reshaping key regions of the world. Challenging …
Buku ini berisi: 1. Visi dan misi Bogor goals 2. IAP Indonesia 3. Struktur 4. APEC Business advisory council 5. Sekretariat 6. APEC Midterm stock take di bidang liberalisasi dan fasilitas perdagangan Etc.
Buku ini menawarkan kepada kita cara-cara baru dalam memandang globalisasi. Diteliti dengan baik, panoramik dalam cakupannya, dan merupakan tikaman balasan yang sempurna bagi pendukung-pendukung globalisasi dan model pertumbuhan "satu ukuran untuk semua'". Buku ini membahas strategi bagaimana keluar dari kemiskinan, mitos dan fakta tentang globalisasi, bagaimana negara-negara kaya menjadi ka…
For the first time in seven decades, there is no single power or alliance of powers ready to take on the challenges of global leadership. A generation ago, the United States, Europe, and Japan were the world’s powerhouses, the free-market democracies that propelled the global economy forward. Today, they struggle just to find their footing. Acclaimed geopolitical analyst Ian Bremmer argues…
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…