Economics

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...

Over the past decade, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have proliferated and have increased their role in the international economy. China now has fou...

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...

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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers 15 domestic nutrition assistance programs. The five largest programs are: the Supplemental Nu...

Research in economics is increasingly open to empirical results. The advances in behavioural approaches are expanded here by applying cognitive met...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of the economics and politics of South and Central America. Topics discussed include...

In the wake of the summer of 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah and an armed domestic confrontation between Hezbollah and rival Lebanese groups ...

This book examines some of the economic, political and social issues facing the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. Topi...

In this second book of the series, topics discussed include the economic significance, current risk, and policy responses to deflation; crowd-fundi...

Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986, Haiti has struggled to over...

Credit Rating originated in the USA has spread out to the world since the 1980s. Credit risk is a risk that a borrower either through bonds or bank...

Islamic finance is one of the fastest growing segments in the global financial market. However, while the principles and concepts of Islamic financ...

Federal law bars aliens residing without authorisation in the United States from most federal benefits; however, there is a widely held perception ...

The chapters of the present book analyse contemporary societal challenges and changes in light of the social quality approach and French regulation...

There are four common types of excise taxes: (1) sumptuary (or sin ) taxes, (2) regulatory or environmental taxes, (3) benefit-based taxes (or use...

The U.S. intelligence community has assessed with high confidence that Syrian government forces used sarin nerve gas in limited attacks earlier t...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries have witnessed important complex economic, social and political changes and transition recently. ...

Regarding U.S. relief and reconstruction plans, programs, and operations in Iraq, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) pro...

Insecurity, poor governance, and a long-running humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) present a range of challenges for U.S...