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Companies contribute to the development of the community in which they are located and constantly face new challenges linked to their environment. ...

The authors begin by presenting that the precursors of an intense coupled system of an African easterly wave and a mesoscale convective system over...

This book is a compilation of recent CRS reports involving China, including maritime territorial and exclusive economic zone (EEZ) disputes involvi...

This book starts with a CRS report about the Infantry Brigade Combat Teams (IBCTs), in particular, potential issues for Congress related to IBCTs i...

This book, originally published in 1913, makes no pretense to be a complete history of the early industrial life of England, but at the same time i...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

Chapter 1 examines how the United States Secret Service can more effectively achieve its mission of protecting the Nation's leaders and financial s...

This book is a compilation of reports on Africa.

There have been significant social, economic and political changes in in Ethiopia in recent decades. Healthcare coverage has rapidly expanded but m...

The latest global financial crisis has troubled the United States and caused very bad debt crises in many Eurozone member nations due to their inte...

This book is a compilation of reports on the Middle East. Chapters 1 and 2 discuss the kingdom of Saudi Arabia's relations with the United States, ...

In this era of economic liberalisation and globalisation, mineral sector in India and many other developing countries have been opened up. Now mult...

The chapters in this volume were written as commentaries between mid-2008 and early-2016 in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008-2009. The prima...

In this next volume of Progress in Economics Research, chapters discuss the Solow growth model with network production functions; the government se...

Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Congress enacted the USA PATRIOT Act, in part, to provide enhanced investigative tools and to assist in t...

North Korea has been among the most vexing and persistent problems in U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. The United States has never ...

This book reviews and discusses President Obama''''s Open Government Initiative and the Open Government Directive, as well as the three central ten...

This book explores the land cover, renewable energy and natural gas issues facing Alaska today. The land surface of Alaska is sparsely populated an...

While it remains too early to tell whether Treasury''''s intervention in and reshaping of the U.S. automotive industry will prove to be a success, ...

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...