Environmental Problems in the Shortage Economy is one of the first books to analyse environmental disruption under the Soviet economic system. Using original Soviet data the author shows that considerable damage has been done to the environment and that measures which were intended to protect it...

Contents: Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theory -- 3. Supply chain economy -- 4. Market structure and location of production -- 5. Globalisation -- 6. International firms -- 7. Regional policy -- 8. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. The new global context -- pt. 3. National perspectives on the Asia Pacific IT industry in a global context -- pt. 4. Sectoral responses to global change -- pt. 5. Regional and local responses to global change.

In this unique work, Jennifer Considine and William Kerr contend that while OPEC currently dominates the international oil market, Russia will be a key player in the future international energy market. Indeed, Russia's petroleum resources rival those of Saudi Arabia. More than almost any other...

This book is the one of the first-if not the first one-to address aid effectiveness from a comparative economics perspective. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transition of its republics to market structures and representative forms of government, the European Commission had...