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Ireland's Long Economic Boom
This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing why this boom occurred.
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- 978-3-031-53070-8
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- XVI, 264
Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction of production and expenditure series for the century prior to the introduction of modern national accounts. The author …
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- 978-3-319-58042-5
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- Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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- XXIV, 383
The Early Years
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license. The Early Years analyzes the development of Latin American and Caribbean children and makes a compelling case for government intervention in what is instinctively a family affair. Spending on effective programs for young children is an investment that, if done well, will have very high returns, while failure to implement such pro…
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- 978-1-137-53649-5
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- XXII, 262
Determinants of Financial Development
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. This book examines the emergence of both financial markets and carbon markets, and provides an in-depth investigation on the fundamental determinants of financial development.
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- 978-0-230-30249-5
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- XIX, 206
Networks in the Russian Market Economy
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. This book examines the significance of networks among the firms operative in the contemporary Russian software industry in the St. Petersburg region.
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- 978-0-230-29493-6
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- XI, 184
The Economics of the Audiovisual Industry: Financing TV, Film and Web
This book is open access under a CC BY licence. Recent reductions in public funding for audiovisual products have led to dramatic changes in the industry. The lack of interaction between the industry and capital markets has made sourcing funds for audiovisual products especially difficult. This book explains why the distance between the audiovisual and financial markets exists, and considers th…
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- 978-1-137-37847-7
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- XII, 191
Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition
This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods when they transitioned to capitalism, the inability of socialist economies to modernize effectively and produce sustained economic growth is highlighted. Particular attention is…
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- 978-3-031-37050-2
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- Studies in Economic Transition
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- XVI, 331
Modelling our Changing World
This open access book focuses on the concepts, tools and techniques needed to successfully model ever-changing time-series data. It emphasizes the need for general models to account for the complexities of the modern world and how these can be applied to a range of issues facing Earth, from modelling volcanic eruptions, carbon dioxide emissions and global temperatures, to modelling unemployment…
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- 978-3-030-21432-6
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- Palgrave Texts in Econometrics
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- XIX, 128
Making Medicines in Africa
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The importance of the pharmaceutical industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, its claim to policy priority, is rooted in the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent. Making Medicines in Africa is a collective endeavour, by a group of contributors with a strong African and more broadly Southern presence, to find ways to link technological development,…
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- 978-1-137-54647-0
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- International Political Economy Series
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- XXI, 334
Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration
This open access book explores Asian approaches towards investment arbitration—a transnational procedure to resolve disputes between a foreign investor and a host state—setting it in the wider political economy and within domestic law contexts. It considers the extent to which significant states in Asia are, or could become, “rule makers” rather than “rule takers” regarding corrupti…
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- 978-981-99-9303-1
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- Asia in Transition
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- XVIII, 454
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