Buku ini membahas tentang ekonomi di Asia, terutama Korea, Cina, Taiwan, Jepang dan negara di Asia Tenggara.
Much of the debate on green growth and environmental governance tends to be general in nature, and is often conceptual or limited to single disciplines - such as green growth being dominated by economists and governance by political scientists. This book examines such terms within the context of wide-interest topics including education, oceans and cities, and mixes conceptual discussion with em…
Buku ini fokus membahas mengenai lingkungan hidup dari segi pertanian dan ilmu hayat, yang mana memiliki kesamaan pada latar belakang penulis. Hanya sedikit bahasan lingkungan hidup dari segi aspek sosial dan budaya.
This book addresses the now familiar problem of tropical deforestation from an unfamilar angle. More specifically, the author focuses on the time factor in the natural regeneration of the tropical rain forest. He examines the economic and practical implications of the very long period of time needed for such forest to regrow, and concludes that the tyranny of time makes it unlikely that the pro…
This is an assessment of the transformation that took place in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The book addresses two central questions: how is the state socialist system of party monopoly and centralized planning dissolving? And how do these societies recreate the communist opposite - civil society and free markets? The contributors attribute the collapse of state socialism to ideological…
A documentary history based on contemporary accounts and historical examinations selected from the writings of political leaders, literary men, scholars and journalists. Among those included are Mao Tse-tung, Dean Rusk, Chou En-lai, william P. Bundy, Edgar Snow, Lin Piao, John K. Fairbank, Robert A. Scalapino, Roger Hilsman, A. Doak Barnett, Mark Gayn, Derk Bodde, Robert Litton, and James Reston
No other country in the world excites so much concern and interest among thoughtful Americans as does the Soviet Union. This book, as the title emphasizes, delves into the Soviet Union's economic organization, growth and challenges.
In 2004, a court in Mbandaka, in the Congolese province of Équateur, decided that the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) provided better guidance than the Congolese military code in adjudicating the case before it. This decision triggered an avalanche of other decisions in which military judges across the country have systematically and deliberately disregarded the Congoles…
A collection of essays on American space policy issues. After examining existing space programmes and the context in which they exist, the contributors suggest alternatives such as NASA's Earth Observing System and manned and unmanned programmes.
By analysing foreign direct investment (FDI) in a macroeconomic framework, this study throws new light on various channels through which FDI influences saving, investment, growth, and the balance of payments on current account. The finding that FDI has differential impacts in a sample of five Southeast Asian and eleven other developing countries leads to several policy conclusions. First, FDI i…