This report summarizes the financial and production records of 116 dairy farms from throughout Michigan in 2008. To be included, the farms must have produced at least 50 percent of gross cash farm income from milk and dairy animal sales. The records came from Michigan State University’s...

In einer Mischung aus Faszination und Beunruhigung blickt die Welt auf den asiatischen Kontinent. Der dynamische Aufstieg Asiens, für den China aufgrund seiner besonders erfolgreichen Wirtschaftsentwicklung als Chiffre steht, verdient Respekt und Anerkennung. Gleichzeitig aber wird dieser...

"The book examines trade agreements in the context of the current world economic crisis and the uncompleted World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round of trade negotiations. With economies shrinking and protectionism on the rise, many fear a protracted global recession. This raises important...

The East Asia and Pacific region has an international emigrant population of over 21 million people, who remitted more than USD 90 billion to their home countries in 2010. The region also hosts more than 7 million migrant workers, mostly from other Asian countries. These migrant workers account...

Overview -- Migration and its impacts -- Labor migration and economic growth in East and South-East Asia / by Terrie Walmsley, Angel Aguiar and S. Amer Ahmed -- Remittances, household investment and poverty in Indonesia / by Richard H. Adams, Jr. and Alfredo Cuecuecha -- More or less...

The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region has an international emigrant population of more than 21 million people who remitted US112 billion to their home countries in 2013. The region also hosts more than 7 million migrant workers, mostly from other Asian countries. These migrant workers account...

Japan’s Future in East Asia and the Pacific takes a ’big-picture‘ approach to Japan’s economic place in East Asia alongside that of China. It analyses Japan’s successes and experiments in trade policy as well as its failures in macro-economic policy. Japan’s diplomatic and economic...

Overview of social welfare in East Asia and the Pacific / Sharlene B.C.L. Furuto -- China's changing social welfare / Minjie Zhang -- Understanding social welfare in South Korea / Jun Sung Hong ... [et al.] -- Social welfare in Hong Kong: colonial legacy and challenges for the HKSAR / Venus...