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Japan's dramatic transformation from economic success to economic stagnation offers important policy lessons to … describe long-term stagnation and deflation. Symptoms include high unemployment, weak economic activity, interest rates near … growth from the perspective of demographic change: will aging Korea become another Japan? / Kyooho Kwon -- 4. Export dynamics …
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Terutomo Ozawa examines Japan's once celebrated post-war economic success from a new perspective. He applies a "flying …pt. 1. Post-WWII growth clustering and Japan as a second goose -- pt. 2. Out of, and beyond, the limit of borrowed …
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crisis during the early 1990s, and later into stagnation and prolonged deflation, demonstrated precisely what not to do when …This timely book presents a critical examination of the developmental premises of Japan's high-growth success and its … subsequent drift into recession, stagnation and piecemeal reform. The country, which within a few decades of wartime defeat …
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Industrial ecology provides a consistent material and energetic description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. The contributors to this book offer methodologies for such descriptions, focusing on the dynamics associated...
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It is a general understanding that the advanced economies are currently undergoing a fundamental transformation into knowledge-based societies. There is a firm belief that this is based on the development of high-tech industries. Correspondingly, in this scenario low-tech sectors appear to be...
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The acid test of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is simply this: does it lead to positive impacts on society and the environment or is it just rhetoric? And if it does lead to positive impacts, how can these be enhanced? This timely book tackles this cutting-edge challenge by presenting...
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In this valuable new book, a distinguished group of authors takes stock of the existing state of knowledge in the field of finance and the development process. Each chapter offers a comprehensive survey and synthesis of current issues. These include such critical subjects as savings, financial...
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liberalisation and export diversification in Nepal -- 7. Liberalisation and the manufacturing sector -- 8. Small enterprise …
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This book studies the impact of Egypt's Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Programme (ERSAP), the effects of which have been of great interest to the international community. Organizations such as the World Bank and the IMF uphold the programme as a success story and example for other...
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Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Choice of invoice currency in Japanese trade: industry- and commodity-level analysis -- 3. Findings from interviews with globally operating Japanese firms -- 4. Analysis of questionnaire surveys on head offices -- 5. Exchange rate risk management in Japanese firms...
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