Economics, Finance, Business & Management

Over the past several years, the Chinese government has maintained a policy of intervening in currency markets to limit or halt the appreciation of...

The Spending Review examines how the Coalition Government will carry out Britain''''s unavoidable deficit reduction plan. This is an urgent priorit...

The appointment of a Supreme Court Justice is an event of major significance in American politics. Each appointment is of consequence because of th...

During its forty-five year history, the Economic Development Administration (EDA) has evolved from a cluster of programs targeted primarily to rura...

The slowdown of economic activity was moderate through the first half of 2008, but at that point the weakening economy was overtaken by a major fin...

To critics, public campaign financing, generally in conjunction with spending limits, is the ultimate solution to perceived problems arising from e...

Cotton and other fibres are used to produce textiles. The United States is the largest exporter of cotton, and China is the world''''s largest impo...

The recent increase in poverty reflects the worsening of economic conditions since the onset of the economic recession in December 2007. Many expec...

On 6 May 2010, the prices of many U.S.-based equity products experienced an extraordinarily rapid decline and recovery. That afternoon, major equit...

The federal government loses both individual and corporate income tax revenue from the shifting of profits and income into low-tax countries, often...

This series spans the globe presenting leading research in economics. International applications and examples of economic progress are invaluable i...

The post-World War II U.S.-Japan alliance has long been an anchor of the U.S. security role in East Asia. The alliance facilitates the forward depl...

This series spans the globe presenting leading research in economics. It is perhaps a sign of the times that economic weapons such as sanctions see...

Combating corruption is a key U.S. value and goal, due to its corrosive effects on the rule of law, economic development, and democratic principles...

Asia has entered the 21st century as an economic superpower and is inevitably also becoming a political superpower. This evolution is the subject o...

This book includes in its scope a spectrum of the contemporary politics and economics of South and Central America and the Caribbean. The coverage ...

In finance, the exchange rates between two currencies specifies how much one currency is worth in terms of the other. This new book presents topica...

Globalisation describes a process by which regional economies, societies and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communicat...

What began as a bursting of the U.S. housing market bubble and a rise in foreclosures has ballooned into a global financial and economic crisis. Th...

In member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN), as in other Asian developing countries, the majority of firms are small-...

Because American Samoa does not have a federal court like the CNMI, Guam or USVI, matters of federal law arising in American Samoa have generally b...

The U.S. insular areas of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and three Freely Ass...

A number of policy issues have direct or indirect consequences for the non-profit and charitable sector, including the establishment of a social in...

This book provides insight into the compelling evolution of Georgia''''s development and modern challenges. It analyses the key tendencies that too...

Increasingly, the armed forces have a vision of security as emphasising hard rather than soft security, a view which has come to the forefront in M...

This book addresses the problem of correlations between investments, economic growth and employment using three different instruments: error correc...

This series spans the globe gathering the latest research on the economics of our time. It is perhaps a sign of the times that economic weapons suc...

It is commonly believed that Great Transformation -- the process of post-socialist changes leading from the system of more or less reformed central...

At this moment of economic crisis and uncertainty, the USA is being tested. This book presents a preliminary analysis of President Obama''''s budge...

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko snuffed out Belarus''''s modest progress toward democracy and a free market economy and created an author...

A bioeconomy is one based on the use of research and innovation in the biological sciences to create economic activity and public benefit. The U.S....

This book examines the current political, economic, security, and U.S. interest issues facing Russia today. Although Russia may not be as central t...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of a variety of economic, political and social issues of Russia, as well as U.S. inv...

Budgeting for the federal government is an enormously complex process. It entails dozens of sub-processes, countless rules and procedures, the effo...

This book focuses on the features and structure of the EU''''s food chain, food industry developments, introduction of new technologies, institutio...

This book discusses the opportunities as well as problems facing the proposed Union Government of Africa from diverse disciplines. The central focu...

This book presents and discusses information on the contemporary politics and economics of Asia. The coverage is intended to deal with Asia, its po...

A continent of vast diversity, stretching from the deserts of the north through the equatorial tropics into the more temperate south, Africa brims ...

The final text of the proposed U.S.-Panama FTA incorporates specific amendments on key issues at the behest of congressional leadership. The most s...

The goal of disability insurance is to replace a portion of a worker''''s income should illness or disability prevent him or her from working. Indi...

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost the United States in many ways. For the American Armed Forces, the human toll has been profound: as of 2...

In the short run, the relationship between economic growth and the unemployment rate may be a loose one. One reason that unemployment may not fall ...

Net foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into India reached $15.7 billion in India''''s 2006-07 fiscal year, more than triple the $4.7 billion rec...

Policy toward and support for Taiwan are a key element in U.S. relations with the People''''s Republic China (PRC) and an important component of U....

The Troubled Asset Relief Program ( TARP ) now includes 12 separate, but often interrelated, programs involving Government and private funds of up ...

In September 1999, Russia''''s then-Premier Vladimir Putin ordered military, police, and security forces to enter the breakaway Chechnya region, re...