European UnionPost Crisis Challenges and Prospects for Growth
This book discusses the unprecedented impact of the financial and economic crisis on government finances and economic performance across Europe, which has raised skepticism on the ability of the current course of integration to promote prosperity. Correspondingly, the European Union is about to contract for the first time in its history. This timely book covers the economic issues that challenge the future of integration in Europe. The chapters are authored by international experts and examine current and emerging challenges and trends for the European Union: economic convergence, monetary policy, competition law, transport policy, the informal sector, employment, recovery and enlargement. Four chapters focus on Greece, which has been the greatest challenge faced by European institutions in the context of the sovereign debt crisis, and one chapter discusses the possible costs of Brexit. The reader will benefit from understanding the key economic challenges, which, if effectively addressed, will lead to deepening the union, or in contrast to a multi-speed Europe.
Gender Inequalities in the Japanese Workplace and EmploymentTheories and Empirical Evidence
The in-depth analyses presented in this book have a dual focus: (1) Social mechanisms through which the gender wage gap, gender inequality in the attainment of managerial positions, and gender segregation of occupations are generated in Japan; and (2) Assessments of the effects of firms' gender-egalitarian personnel policies and work-life balance promotion policies on the gender wage gap and the firms' productivity. In addition, this work reviews and discusses various economic and sociological theories of gender inequality and gender discrimination and considers their consistencies and inconsistencies with the results of the analysis of Japanese data. Furthermore, the book critically reviews and discusses the historical development of the Japanese employment system by juxtaposing rational and cultural explanations. This book is an English translation by the author of a book he first published in Japanese in 2017. The original Japanese-language edition received two major book awards in Japan. One was The Nikkei Economic Book Culture Award, which is given every year by the Nikkei Newspaper Company and the Japan Economic Research Center to a few best books on economy and society. The other was The Showa University's Women's Culture Research Award, which is bestowed annually on a single book of research that promotes gender equality. Kazuo Yamaguchi is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
Real Option Analysis and Climate ChangeA New Framework for Environmental Policy Analysis
This book sets out to reframe the theory of real options so that it can be used to support environmental investments for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Climate change policy often involves making decisions that concern extended time periods, and doing so under considerable uncertainty. By expanding and broadening the framework of real options, this book first introduces readers to new ways of quantifying investment decisions that can much more effectively address the shape and size of the uncertainty than traditional approaches using Net Present Value. In turn, the second part of the book applies this new theoretical framework to climate change policy by presenting a number of examples, and by providing a general perspective on investment decisions related to climate change and how to prioritize them.
Foreign Investment PromotionGovernance and Implementation in Central-Eastern European Regions
Analysing foreign investment promotion at a regional level in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, the book applies regional science, international business, and place marketing concepts to explore how Central Eastern European Countries compete for multinational firms. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the author places special emphasis on promotion and its role within a wider context of regional strategies aimed at inward investment attraction. With useful insights for policy-makers, the book combines theory with empirical evidence and provides valuable reading for those researching international business location, place marketing and regional development.
Leadership in Regional Community-BuildingComparing ASEAN and the European Union
This book examines the role of political leadership as a driver in the process of regional community-building in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU). It considers under which conditions political leadership constitutes a driver of regional community-building and reconceptualises the very idea of political leadership in order to examine its role in a regional context. The book concludes that a comprehensive approach that incorporates political will, the capacity of individual leaders, state capacity, legitimacy, and summitry yields a deeper understanding of political leadership in regional bodies.
China's Achilles' HeelThe Belt and Road Initiative and Its Indian Discontents
This book analyses Chinese discourse on Indian attitudes towards the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), and argues that the Indian discourse is becoming one of the biggest hurdles to China creating its own narrative about China's rise in Asia and beyond. In doing so, it spans across the themes of the power struggle between China and US, China and India, the Chinese perception of India, China-South Asia relations, the China-US- India strategic triangle and the success and failures of BRI. The first part of the book focuses on the Chinese thinking behind the launch of the BRI and addresses questions related to the purpose of this initiative and ways in which it will facilitate China's rise as a superpower. Subsequently the book addresses how effective or ineffective India's challenge is and how it is negatively affecting China's BRI.
Marx, Veblen, and the Foundations of Heterodox Economics
John F. Henry is an eminent economist who has made important contributions to heterodox economics drawing on Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and John Maynard Keynes. His historical approach offers radical insights into the evolution of ideas (ideologies and theories) giving rise to and/or induced by the changes in capitalist society. Es
The Airline Profit Cycle
The airline industry has generally followed a growth trend since its inception but the industry's financial situation is not as healthy as rising passenger numbers might suggest. This book addresses the question of why airline profits are cyclical and examines the causes and dynamics that determine the profit cycle's shape.
Global Economic Governance and the Development Practices of the Multilateral Development B
As pillars of the post-1945 international economic system the Regional (and Sub-Regional) Development Banks (RDBs) have long been considered mini-World Banks, reiterating the policy approach of the largest official multilateral development lender in the world. The main objective of the collection is to identify what role the RDBs play in global
Advances in Fisheries BioeconomicsTheory and Policy
Efforts to effectively conserve and manage marine resources are facing increasing complexity of environmental and governance challenges. To address some of these challenges, this book presents advancements in fisheries bioeconomics research that provides significant ideas for addressing emerging environmental and fisheries management issues.
The Hand Behind the Invisible Hand
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND Made famous by the Enlightenment thinker Adam Smith, the concept of an 'invisible hand' might be taken to imply that a government that governs least governs the best, from the viewpoint of society. Here an invisible hand appears to represent unfettered market forces. Drawing from this much-contested notion, Mittermaier indicates why such a view represents only one side of the story and distinguishes between what he calls pragmatic and dogmatic free marketeers. Published posthumously, with new contributions by Daniel Klein, Rod O'Donnell and Christopher Torr, this book outlines Mittermaier's main thesis and his relevance for ongoing debates within economics, politics, sociology and philosophy.
The Economic History of Colonialism
Debates about the origins and effects of European rule in the non-European world have animated the field of economic history since the 1850s. This pioneering text provides a concise and accessible resource that introduces key readings, builds connections between ideas and helps students to develop informed views of colonialism as a force in shaping the modern world. With special reference to European colonialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in both Asia and Africa, this book: - critically reviews the literature on colonialism and economic growth; - covers a range of different methods of analysis; - offers a comparative approach, as opposed to a collection of regional histories, deftly weaving together different themes. With debates around globalization, migration, global finance and environmental change intensifying, this authoritative account of the relationship between colonialism and economic development makes an invaluable contribution to several distinct literatures in economic history.
Understanding Affordability
For many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen. Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing economists - and stimulated by working with governments across the world - this wide-ranging book sets out clear theoretical and empirical frameworks to tackle one of today's most important socio-economic issues. Housing unaffordability arises from complex forces and a prerequisite to effective policy is understanding the causes of rising house prices and rents and the interactions between housing, housing finance and the macroeconomy. The authors challenge many of the conventional wisdoms in housing policy and offer innovative recommendations to improve affordability.
Public Policy and the Neo-Weberian State
This book explores a range of issues related to the neo-Weberian approach in the context of contemporary challenges in the creation and evaluation of public policies in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The chapters focus on the fundamental public policy issues, theoretical and methodological foundations, instruments for public policy
The Israeli Path to Neoliberalism
By presenting a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the evolution of the Israeli economy from the 1930s to the 1990s, this book seeks to explain the Israeli path to Neoliberalism.
Evolutionary Political Economy in ActionA Cyprus Symposium
This book consists of two parts. Part 1 provides a broad range of issues that show how flexible evolutionary political economy can handle acute policy problems in Europe: should Europe support the revived build-up of NATO forces on its Eastern border, or should it rather aim at economic cooperation with Russia? How can democracy for a whole
The Economic History of Colonialism
Debates about the origins and effects of European rule in the non-European world have animated the field of economic history since the 1850s. This pioneering text provides a concise and accessible resource that introduces key readings, builds connections between ideas and helps students to develop informed views of colonialism as a force in shaping the modern world. With special reference to European colonialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in both Asia and Africa, this book: - critically reviews the literature on colonialism and economic growth; - covers a range of different methods of analysis; - offers a comparative approach, as opposed to a collection of regional histories, deftly weaving together different themes. With debates around globalization, migration, global finance and environmental change intensifying, this authoritative account of the relationship between colonialism and economic development makes an invaluable contribution to several distinct literatures in economic history.
Global Economic Prospects, June 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has, with alarming speed, dealt a heavy blow to an already-weak global economy, which is expected to slide into its deepest recession since the second world war, despite unprecedented policy support. The global recession would be deeper if countries take longer to bring the pandemic under control, if financial stress triggers defaults, or if there are protracted effects on households and firms. Economic disruptions are likely to be more severe and protracted in emerging market and developing economies with larger domestic outbreaks and weaker medical care systems; greater exposure to international spillovers through trade, tourism, and commodity and financial markets; weaker macroeconomic frameworks; and more pervasive informality and poverty. Beyond the current steep economic contraction, the pandemic is likely to leave lasting scars on the global economy by undermining consumer and investor confidence, human capital, and global value chains. Being mostly a reflection of the recent plunge in global energy demand, low oil prices are unlikely to provide much of a boost to global growth in the near term. While policymakers' immediate priorities are to address the health crisis and moderate the short-term economic losses, the likely long-term consequences of the pandemic highlight the need to forcefully undertake comprehensive reform programs to improve the fundamental drivers of economic growth, once the crisis abates. Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and prospects, with a special focus on emerging market and developing economies, on a semiannual basis (in January and June). The January edition includes in-depth analyses of topical policy challenges faced by these economies, while the June edition contains shorter analytical pieces.
Understanding Affordability
For many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen. Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing economists - and stimulated by working with governments across the world - this wide-ranging book sets out clear theoretical and empirical frameworks to tackle one of today's most important socio-economic issues. Housing unaffordability arises from complex forces and a prerequisite to effective policy is understanding the causes of rising house prices and rents and the interactions between housing, housing finance and the macroeconomy. The authors challenge many of the conventional wisdoms in housing policy and offer innovative recommendations to improve affordability.
Labour Managed Firms and Post-Capitalism
Marx claims that unselfishness is a child of (workplace) culture, whereas the gene is selfish. If Marx is right then the prerequisite for overthrowing capitalism is a system which both leverages selfishness and creates solidarity between workers. This book illustrates and discusses the major points of the economic theory of producer cooperatives, its evolution since the 1950s, and links with Marxian theory.Labour Managed Firms and Post-Capitalism, most importantly, demonstrates that a system of producer cooperatives offers a wealth of advantages compared to capitalism. There is general agreement that the main benefit of this form of economic democracy is that people who are allowed to freely pursue their interests are happier than those acting on somebody else's instruction. The author argues that a system of democratic firms would eradicate classical (high-wage) unemployment and scale down both Keynesian and structural unemployment levels. He also shows that a system of producer cooperatives literally reverses the capital-labour relationship typical of capitalism and that its establishment can consequently be looked upon as a revolution.This volume is of great interest to academics, lecturers and researchers with an interest in Marxism, political economy and industrial economics, as well as economic theory and philosophy.
Global Energy Fundamentals
This book provides a rigorous, concise guide to the current status and future prospects of the global energy system. As we move away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy solutions, the complexity of the global energy system has increased. Tagliapietra cuts through this complexity with a multidisciplinary perspective of the system, which encompasses economics, geopolitics, and basic technology. He goes on to explore the main components of the global energy system - oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear energy, bioenergy, hydropower, geothermal energy, wind energy, solar energy, marine energy - as well as energy consumption and energy efficiency. It then provides an in-depth analysis of the pivotal issues of climate change and of energy access in Africa.
Boom and Bust
Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society. They reveal that bubbles start when investors and speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to predict these sparks.
Production Transformation Policy Review of the Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic, though the fastest-growing economy in Latin America and the Caribbean since 2010, cannot afford complacency. The COVID-19 crisis may accelerate existing global trends that created the need for reforms addressing structural weaknesses that lurked beneath the surface well before the pandemic. The Production Transformation Policy Review (PTPR) of the Dominican Republic identifies priority reforms to update the national strategy, with perspectives on agro-food and nearshoring.
Responsibility Beyond Growth
Critically assessing growth-based models of innovation policy, this enlightening study sparks new debate on the role and nature of responsible innovation. Drawing on insights from economics, politics, and science and technology studies, it proposes the concept of 'responsible stagnation' as an expansion of present discussions about growth, degrowth, responsibility and innovation within planetary limitations. This important intervention explores real-world relationships between the political economy, innovation policy and concepts of responsibility, and will be an invaluable resource for individuals and civil society organizations who seek to promote responsible innovation.
Annual Report on the Development of the Indian Ocean Region (2018)Indo-Pacific: Concept Definition and Strategic Implementation
Chapter1.The Strategic Game in Indo-Pacific Region and Its Impact on China's Security.- Chapter2.The Prospect of the "Indo-Pacific" Concept and China's Countermeasures.- Chapter3.The US's Indo-Asia Initiative and Its Impact on China.- Chapter4.Locating China in the Indo-Pacific debates: Perspectives from India.- Chapter5.Australia's Cognition of the "India-Pacific Strategy", Reasons and Countermeasures.- Chapter6.Connotation and Dilemma of the US Indo-Pacific Strategy and China's Responses.- Chapter7.Historical Changes of "Indo-Pacific"Geo-economics and Development Demands of India.- Chapter8.Economic Development and Evolution of Geo-Economic Pattern of the "Indo-Pacific" Region.- Chapter9.The Challenge to ASEAN Centrality under Indo-Pacific StrategyThe Challenge to ASEAN Centrality under Indo-Pacific Strategy.- Chapter10.New Trend in the Construction of "Indo-Pacific" and Its Impact on South Asia.
Econaissance
Econaissance intertwines Economics, Knowledge and Renaissance to anticipate the dawn of a new age that acts on the principles of human knowledge and the economy, and sheds light on the culture of entrepreneurialism, too often kept in the shadows.
The Economics of Law, Order, and ActionTheEconomics of Law, Order, and ActionThe Logic of
According to the standard position of the economic mainstream, the efficient production of so-called public goods, including law and defense, requires the use of territorial monopolies of coercive force. Two arguments are put forward for this position: a "positive" one, based on the claim that only such institutions can successfully supply society with crucial public goods, and a "negative" one, based on the claim that such institutions by themselves constitute inevitable "public bads".This book challenges this assumption by utilizing the insights of the Austrian School of Economics, New Institutionalism, constitutional political economy, and other heterodox economic approaches, combined with economically informed ethical analysis. It puts forward a positive case for voluntary social organization that offers new insights into the intersection of economic logic, social philosophy, institutional analysis, and the theory of entrepreneurship. In other words, in an attempt to draw on the interdisciplinary spirit of classical political economy, this book aims at providing a comprehensive economic and ethical case for extending the applicability of voluntary, entrepreneurial cooperation to the realm of creating and sustaining legal and protective services together with attendant institutional frameworks.
Lecture Notes in International Trade
This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the economics of International Trade.Key questions related to why countries trade, how they gain from trade, and how international trade can produce winners and losers are answered. The last of these questions is related to the connection of trade to inequality in the distribution of income.The book uses both theoretical models and empirical evidence to answer these questions. It also provides a discussion of the economics of labor migration and international capital mobility. The book also provides a detailed discussion of the welfare implications of various trade policy instruments such as tariffs, quotas, export subsidies etc. This is followed by a discussion of the process of actual policymaking in democratic societies which goes into the realm of political economy. The focus here is on the political economy of trade policy. It also provides a discussion of the economics of preferential trading agreements and a history of multilateral trading agreements under the aegis of GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and its evolution into the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Chinese Dream and Practice in Zhejiang - Ecology
The theme of this book is the ecological development of Zhejiang province under the guidance of "China Dream" policy. It reviews the policy and strategy for environmental protection and transition from the extensive economic growth model to ecological economy. The author explores ecological theories and practices in areas such as traditional culture, economic development, environmental protection, rural reconstruction, green urban development and the ecological civilization system in Zhejiang. As Zhejiang is one of the first economically well-off regions in China, the challenges faced by the government and its solutions under the guidance of the statecraft shall be of interest to scholars and policy makers worldwide.
The Political Economy of Livelihoods in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Highlighting an emergent scholarship amongst young black scholars in Zimbabwe, and providing an understanding of how people and communities respond to socio-economic challenges, this book is an important read for scholars of African political economy, Southern African Studies and livelihoods.
Physical Limits to Economic Growth
The debate on the physical limits and constraints to the economic growth of globalized society is now widespread. This book explores the physical and economic aspects of the conflict between humans, with their thoughtless focus on growth through material production, and environmental constraints.
Advancing the Frontiers of Heterodox EconomicsEssays in Honor of Frederic S. Lee
This collection of essays honors the life and work of one of the most prominent and fervent heterodox economists, Frederic S. Lee, who has been at the heart of the heterodox economics movements for the past three decades. Authors in this book demonstrate that heterodox economic has transcended the criticism of mainstream economics and, more impo
Resisting Financialization with Deleuze and Guattari
Resisting Financialization with Deleuze and Guattari aims to provide a contribution in relation to three main areas. The understanding of contemporary capitalism and financialization from a critical perspective; the analysis of resistance to financialization; and the better understanding of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari.
Economic Literacy and Money IllusionAn Experimental Perspective
Money illusion has long been over-looked in explanations of business cycles. However, with increased questions over the basis of the rational model, money illusion has been attracting renewed interest. This book follows the latest research and asks whether the acquisition of economic education can help to weaken the effects of money illusion.
Theory and Method of Evolutionary Political Economy
This book promises to describe political and economic dynamics as interwoven as they are in real life and it adds to that an evolutionary perspective, which allows for a long-run view. The essays in this volume explore the theoretical and methodological aspects of evolutionary political economy. In part one, the authors consider the foundational
Representing Public Credit
Public credit was controversial in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. It entailed new ways of thinking about the individual in relation to the State and was for many reasons a site of cultural negotiation and debate. At the same time, it required commitment from participants in order to function. Some of the debates relating to public
Philosophy in the Time of Economic CrisisPragmatism and Economy
The essays in this volume, drawing heavily on the tradition of pragmatism, suggest that the economic crises of our time (the 2008 collapse of real estate and finance markets) might not be merely technical in nature - that is, the result of faulty applications of economic tools by politicians and policy makers, based up conventional econom
The Asian Economy
The book is a key reading which provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the contemporary Asian economy. The book focuses on the structural changes that are rapidly transforming the regional economic landscape in the 21st century. It highlights the concomitant challenges that have arisen, and further discusses prospects and potentialities of Asian economies given this new economic environment. The book also looks at broader social issues that are both the cause and result of these new and complex economic dynamism in Asia. Understanding the Asian economy cannot be achieved without understanding the new interrelationships and complexities that have evolved from this context, which continue to be driven by drastic changes in technological, demographic, and social structures, among others. Each of the chapters are titled based on "issues" and are framed in present continuous tense, intended to capture and emphasize the progressiveness of this new dynamism that are transforming the region in a fundamental way.
The Economic Philosophy of the Internet of ThingsTheEconomic Philosophy of the Internet of
This book contends that neoclassical approaches to modelling economic behaviour based on optimal control by "representative-agents" are ill-suited to a world typified by concurrency, decentralized control, and interaction. It argues for the development of new, process-based approaches to analysis, modelling and simulation and provides the cont
Business and Community in Medieval England
One of the most important manuscripts surviving from thirteenth-century England, the corpus of documents known as the Hundred Rolls for Cambridge have been incomplete until the recent discovery of an additional roll. This invaluable volume replaces the previous inaccurate transcription by the record commission of 1818 and provides new translations and additional appendices. Shedding new light on important facets of business activity in thirteenth-century Cambridge, this volume makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of the early phases of capitalism. This unique text will be of interest to anyone working in the fields of economic and business history, entrepreneurship, philanthropy and medieval studies. A research monograph based on recently discovered historical documents, Compassionate Capitalism: Business and Community in Medieval England, by Casson et al, is also now available from Bristol University Press.
Kryptow瓣hrungen als Gefahr f羹r die W瓣hrungshoheit?
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich VWL - Geldtheorie, Geldpolitik, Note: 1,7, Universit瓣t der Bundeswehr M羹nchen, Neubiberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, einen ?berblick 羹ber die vorhandene Literatur zu geben, sowie potentielle Entwicklungsm繹glichkeiten der Kryptow瓣hrungen darzustellen. Die Arbeit soll zeigen, welche Gefahren f羹r die W瓣hrungshoheit existieren und wie realistisch diese sind. Ferner soll aufgezeigt werden, welche Einfl羹sse die Gefahren vergr繹?ern k繹nnen sowie welche Entwicklungen der Kryptow瓣hrungen die Gefahr erh繹hen k繹nnten. Diese potentielle Gefahr besteht nicht nur f羹r den Euroraum, sondern auch f羹r andere W瓣hrungsr瓣ume. Die Analyse bezieht sich dabei jedoch nur auf den Euroraum, da der Euro zu den weltweit st瓣rksten W瓣hrungen z瓣hlt. Falls Kryptow瓣hrungen eine Gefahr f羹r den Euro darstellen k繹nnten, w羹rde dies ein deutlich gr繹?eres Gefahrenpotential f羹r die Zentralbanken schw瓣chere W瓣hrungen implizieren. Die Betrachtung von den potentiellen Gefahren f羹r diese Zentralbanken w羹rde zu einer Verzerrung der Ergebnisse f羹hren. Um das Ziel der Arbeit zu erreichen, wurde 羹berwiegend Literatur verwendet, die im Gros nicht 瓣lter als zwei Jahre ist, um so eine m繹glichst hohe Aktualit瓣t der Ergebnisse gew瓣hrleisten zu k繹nnen. ?ltere Literatur wurde verwendet, um Definitionen und Modelle zu erl瓣utern. Das Ergebnis der Arbeit ist, dass Kryptow瓣hrungen in ihrer jetzigen Form keine akute Gefahr f羹r die W瓣hrungshoheit der EZB darstellen. Dies deckt sich mit den Befunden der restlichen Literatur und mit der eigenen Einsch瓣tzung der EZB. Durch externe Faktoren oder durch die technische Weiterentwicklung der aktuellen Kryptow瓣hrungen kann das Risiko jedoch steigen, dass der Euro an Relevanz verliert. Durch den Verlust der Relevanz des Euros k繹nnten Kryptow瓣hrungen auf l瓣ngere Betrachtung damit eine Gefahr f羹r die W瓣hrungshoheit der EZB darstellen.
Reforms, Opportunities, and Challenges for State-Owned Enterprises
This book explores issues relating to the role and performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, and Viet Nam, with insights on evolving roles in the Republic of Korea. Each of the five developing member countries of ADB featured in this book provides a unique development context, but together they present a panoramic view of SOEs in the region. In the Republic of Korea, meanwhile, the evolving role of the public sector in various stages of SOE development is observed. The corporate governance framework is also highlighted in this book, as it posits that government agenda should focus on SOE reforms to promote the long-term productivity-induced growth that is essential to Asia's transition to high-income status.
Next Steps for Asean+3 Central Securities Depository and Real-Time Gross Settlement Linkages
This report provides an update on progress toward the establishment of a regional settlement intermediary to support investment and more integrated bond markets among ASEAN+3 economies. The proposed intermediary is to be based on bilateral links between national central securities depositories and central banks' real-time gross settlement systems. This model can realize cross-border delivery versus payment settlement to enable safe and efficient cross-border financial transactions. The report also highlights emerging trends and challenges in cross-border financial transactions and sets out next steps in establishing a regional settlement intermediary.
Growth of Motorcycle Use in Metro Manila
This study analyzes the use of motorcycles in Metro Manila with the aim of informing government policy related to road safety and transport planning. Motorcycles are increasingly being used for daily commutes as well to provide logistics services. The study explores the various drivers, characteristics, and implications of increased motorcycle use. Taking into account these implications, it presents a policy framework to reduce motorcycle-related crashes and suggests that the Public Service Act be reviewed and amended as appropriate to recognize motorcycles as a primary mode of transport.
Elementary Economics
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Circular Economy in Developed and Developing Countries
Circular Economy in Developed and Developing Countries: Perspective, Methods And Examples develops a new approach to research, founded on the idea that ecological crisis is proof of the necessity for formation of circular economy.
Construction management and real estate development. Part I
The textbook "Construction management and real estate development" is devoted to the problems of modern efficient and harmonious real estate management based on the life cycles of buildings and on the use a two-pronged scientific and practical concept, both management and development in the investment and construction sector. The book shows the significant role of construction as a branch of material production in the national economy. This one presents modern relations between participants of investment and construction process as well as methods of construction management, pricing, conducting of tenders and contracts for the implementation of investment construction projects. The issues presented in the first part such as construction control, acceptance, enter the completed real estate, fixed assets, infrastructure objects and modeling of construction production and construction management were described very well. The second part describes the problem of the foundations of real estate development. The issues of investment resources and information technologies in construction, environmental ex-pertise and protection of environment and organization of a recreational cluster with regard to timely control of changes are in the sphere of constant attention and control of specialists. The questions of the construction management for erection of unique objects, "green" and low-rise cottage construction, as well as topics presented in the textbook of modern directions of improvement of the construction management based on an innovative platform are widely demanded in practice. Systematic application of the author's organizational and development approach in relation to the structure of the educational material allows forming modern professional competences focused on complex and multilateral perception of construction management and real estate problems linked with life cycle of reproduction of various estate objects. The textbook is intended for managers and special
Construction management and real estate development. Part II
The textbook "Construction management and real estate development" is devoted to the problems of modern efficient and harmonious real estate management based on the life cycles of buildings and on the use a two-pronged scientific and practical concept, both management and development in the investment and construction sector. The book shows the significant role of construction as a branch of material production in the national economy. This one presents modern relations between participants of investment and construction process as well as methods of construction management, pricing, conducting of tenders and contracts for the implementation of investment construction projects. The issues presented in the first part such as construction control, acceptance, enter the completed real estate, fixed assets, infrastructure objects and modeling of construction production and construction management were described very well. The second part describes the problem of the foundations of real estate development. The issues of investment resources and information technologies in construction, environmental expertise and protection of environment and organization of a recreational cluster with regard to timely control of changes are in the sphere of constant attention and control of specialists. The questions of the construction management for erection of unique objects, "green" and low-rise cottage construction, as well as topics presented in the textbook of modern directions of improvement of the construction management based on an innovative platform are widely demanded in practice. Systematic application of the author's organizational and development approach in relation to the structure of the educational material allows forming modern professional competences focused on complex and multilateral perception of construction management and real estate problems linked with life cycle of reproduction of various estate objects.
