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Transition of the Yangtze River Delta
This is the first English book that presents a professional analysis of the recent dynamic movement of the Chinese economy by focusing on the Yangtze River Delta region, which is the main engine of the Chinese economy. The impact of the international financial crisis on China’s economic development requires a change from the first wave of economic globalization oriented toward exports to the …
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- 1
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- 978-4-431-55178-2
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- X, 241
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- New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
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Transforming Payment Systems in Europe
The European payment market has undergone rapid transformation in recent years due to changes in payment habits, new business rules and new legal frameworks and regulation. There has also been an advent of new technologies and payment solutions which has altered the European payments landscape drastically. This book provides an overview of the fundamental issues involved in this new payments l…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-54120-8
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- XX, 270
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
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Japan and the Great Divergence: A Short Guide
This text offers an accessible guide to the ways in which our growing knowledge of development in early-modern and modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe. It has long been taken as read that the industrial revolution was the product of some form of ‘European superiority’ dating back to at least early-modern times. In The…
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- 978-1-137-57673-6
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Trade Credit and Temporary Employment
This book presents an empirical investigation into the relationship between companies' short-term response to capital and labor market frictions and performance. Two different kinds of performance measures are considered, namely innovation performance and firm performance. The author focuses on two major topics: first, on the relation between innovation performance and the use of trade credit. …
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-29850-4
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- XIV, 102
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- Contributions to Management Science
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Towards a General Theory of Deep Downturns
Joseph Stiglitz examines the theory behind the economic downturns that have plagued our world in recent times. This fascinating three-part lecture acknowledges the failure of economic models to successfully predict the 2008 crisis and explores alternative models which, if adopted, could potentially restore a stable and prosperous economy.
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-58691-9
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- VI, 71
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- International Economic Association Series
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Towards a Dynamic Regional Innovation System
Embedding the theoretical discussion on the framework of evolutionary regional innovation systems (RIS), this book reveals the informal nature of the emerging RIS in China, within which interactive learning is organized on the basis of social networks. Furthermore, in a comparative study in the Pearl River Delta, China demonstrates that dirigiste governance in the initial industrialization phas…
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- 1
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- 978-3-662-45415-2
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- XI, 189
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Investment Appraisal: Methods and Models
This book provides an introduction to investment appraisal and presents a range of methods and models, some of which are not widely known, or at least not well covered by other textbooks. Each approach is thoroughly described, evaluated and illustrated using examples, with its assumptions and limitations analyzed in terms of their implications for investment decision-making practice. Investment…
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- 978-3-662-45851-8
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Sustainable Agricultural Development
This book provides an up-to-date assessment of sustainable agri-food systems and rural development in the Mediterranean countries. It examines and reviews the impact of EU and national policies on environmental and trade issues in agricultural and rural organizations in the southern and eastern Mediterranean region. The book also reflects key socio-economic and political issues such as resource…
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- 978-3-319-17813-4
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- XIX, 334
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- Cooperative Management
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Investing into North African Solar Power: A Legal Framework for Risk Manageme…
This book investigates how a North African solar thermal power plant can be set up under the guidance of European investors (e.g. the Desertec Concept) as a Public Private Partnership (PPP). It outlines the importance of early awareness of contract-related risks, investment risks and dispute settlement, arguing that commercial and investment arbitration are the best tools for settling disputes …
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- 978-3-319-15756-6
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- -
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A Theory of Sustainable Sociocultural and Economic Development
Why do some countries' economies struggle to develop, even when they are the focus of so much research and international funding? While recognizing that the obstacles facing poor nations are many and complex, Rabie proposes that the roots of most obstacles are sociocultural; thus, sociocultural transformation and economic restructuring can only be successful when treated as interconnected, mutu…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-57952-2
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- XI, 243
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- -
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- 339 RAB t
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