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"Evaluating the myriad dimensions of how disasters can affect economic activity and decision-making, this cutting-edge Handbook presents a timely analysis of the conditions that reduce or exacerbate disaster impacts. Addressing developments in research on disaster economics, internationally...
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of the literature / Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan -- 3. Regional production networks in Asia - a focus on china, japan … of Western and Asian firms in China / Pei Yu and Jean-Louis Mucchielli -- 7. Chinese MNEs direct investment in the … management in the region. Its presentation of the sociopolitical and investment environment will also prove invaluable in …
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Following rapid economic growth in recent decades, Asia and the Pacific experienced an impressive reduction in extreme … 'poverty miracle' and argues for the development and use of an Asia-specific poverty line. This is a timely and … multidimensional assessment of the much-neglected issues of, and links between, poverty, vulnerability, and ethnicity in Asia. It will …
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Introduction -- 1. Financial globalization since the 1970s -- 2. Financial instabilities and trends in the 1980s -- 3. Financial instabilities and trends in the 1990s -- 4. The 2007- crisis: common patterns and new thinking -- 5. A human ecology economics (HEE) framework for the analysis of...
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strong state in Southeast Asia -- 8. Managing cash flow in the Bamboo networks : overseas Chinese and the Singapore system … -- 9. Managing cultural diversity in Southeast Asia. …
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Singapore and over 120 of their foreign affiliates in Asia …
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direct investment in economic development in light of the experiences of developing countries in Asia …Multinational enterprises and developing countries : background and preview -- Foreign direct investment in developing … Asia : trends, patterns and prospects -- Multinational enterprises and manufacturing for export : emerging patterns and …
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1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The sources of growth of US industries -- 4. Total factor productivity growth in Chinese industries, 1981-2000 -- 5. Growth accounting and productivity analysis by 33 industrial...
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During the 1990s over two dozen countries in Europe and Asia underwent a transition from centrally planned to more …
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-based regional and bilateral economic integration is driven by the Factory Asia phenomenon. The authors also compellingly show where … trading system and explores policy implications for Asia. The world trading system, led by the World Trade Organization (WTO …), is under pressure to evolve and address 21st-century trade issues. Meanwhile, economically salient Asia has built deep …
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