Economics, Finance, Business & Management

The importance of marine and maritime policy can hardly be overstated in view of the fact that over 90% of world trade is sea-borne and the economi...

The idea of African unity, the Pan-African Movement, the problems of nation building in Africa, and the history of the African Diaspora have attrac...

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

This book presents and discusses an in-depth study of one dot by using different approaches and methods in social science. Since one-dot is a theor...

This book focuses on the rapid changes occurring in the Caucasus Region, which has been shown by recent events to be one of the world''''s newest a...

This book is a study of the semantics and usages of the concept of Latin America in the United States, both in everyday language and in social scie...

Recently, the federal government has been recording the largest budget deficits, as a share of the economy, since the end of World War II. As a res...

This book focuses on the rapid changes occurring in the Caucasus Region, which has been shown by recent events to be one of the world''''s newest a...

The past two decades alone have witnessed four major shocks to the global financial system: the collapse of the European exchange rate mechanism in...

There is far less empirical and statistical studies performed with regard to the service sector than the manufacturing sector. The productivity of ...

Civilians in Africa''''s conflict zones, particularly women and children, are often vulnerable to sexual violence, including rape, mutilation and s...

National Security Letters (NSL) are roughly comparable to administrative subpoenas. Intelligence agencies issue them for intelligence gathering pur...

The immense importance of entrepreneurship in supporting the growth dynamic of regions / nations is widely accepted. This, however, has not always ...

The nation''''s health, wealth and security rely on the production and distribution of certain goods and services. The array of physical assets, fu...

Following almost three decades of war, the challenges facing Afghanistan''''s development remain immense. By 2001, the ravages of conflict had best...

This book examines the effects and proposals of capital gains taxation. Tax legislation in 1997 reduced capital gains taxes on several types of ass...

Japan has loomed large in post-war Australian foreign and economic policies. At the regional level, the relationship with Japan has become since th...

Some employers maintain that they continue to need the best and the brightest workers, regardless of their country of birth, to remain competitiv...

This book explores the historical background and political and strategic developments in both Bangladesh and Burma. Bangladesh is a densely populat...

This book investigates the urban and rural public pension systems in China with overlapping-generations (OLG) models. This book is composed of thre...

Globalisation is the phenomenon of improved integration of the world economy as evidenced by the growth of international trade and factor mobility....

A booming economy, high population, land-locked location, remote separated and poorly accessible rural areas, large reserves of oil, large mining s...

Qatar, a small peninsular country in the Persian Gulf, emerged as a partner of the United States in the mid-1990s and currently serves as host to m...

All blind and many persons with low vision are unable to distinguish currency denominations without assistance. The U.S. District Court for the Dis...