: monitoring food security in a volatile world / Derek Headey, Olivier Ecker, and Jean-Francois Trinh Tan -- 4. Food price …-applicable insights for scholars and policy analysts seeking to understand the past, present and future of food around the world …

examples of Italy and Japan, two countries which have the fastest ageing populations in Europe and the world respectively …pt. 1. Demographic transition and the impact on growth : the case of Japan -- pt. 2. Demographic transition and pension … systems -- pt. 3. The impact on the demographic transition on the world economy …

This book examines Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the world economy over more than five decades. It …, motor vehicles, steel and services as well as case studies of individual firms. Japanese Investment in the World Economy is … which the Japanese economy became the second largest in the world …

, Kaleckians and other heterodox economists from the developed and developing world. Post Keynesian literature has long been …

After barely half a century of experience, Islamic banking has become established as a niche industry across the world …

centuries wine was very much a European product. While that is still the case today--three-quarters of world wine production …, consumption and trade involve Europe and most of the rest involves just a handful of New World countries settled by Europeans …pt. 1. Overview -- pt. 2. The old world -- pt. 3. The new world -- pt. 4. Other emerging markets …

The seemingly endless problems encountered by the IMF, WTO and World Bank provide major reasons for seeking reform …. However, an additional impetus is the changing balance of economic power in the world. The volume begins with an overview of … institutions from American and European points of view. The authors emphasise the need for making the IMF and World Bank more …