Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Expert Overviews -- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA -- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics -- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part...

This book reports on the findings from a research study of vocational and higher education graduates’ employability challenges. The nature and extent of these challenges, their underlying causes, and effective strategies to address the problems in this area are all analysed from a...

Language Requirement for Naturalization, Linguistic Networks, and International Migration: The Role of Common Unofficial Language -- Smart digitalization in Nordic cities and municipalities through Internet of Things -- Are attitudes to financial risk reflected in precautional measures during...

Introduction -- Macroeconomic Policy Coherence and Gender Equality in Asia Pacific -- Measuring Gender Inequality -- Measuring Unpaid Care Economy -- Fiscal Policy and Gender Inequality in Asia Pacific -- Determining Gender Equality in Fiscal Federalism -- Political Economy of Gender Budgeting:...

1. The Changing Nature of International Business in the Asia-Pacific Region -- 2. Regionalization versus Globalization: Emerging Theoretical Frameworks in the Asia-Pacific Region -- 3. Implications of Free Trade Agreements for the Asia-Pacific Region -- 4. Emerging Frameworks of Political Risk...

This book explores the implications of talent management in four practical settings across the globe. Focusing on countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the authors illustrate how multinational...

Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction to “Disease, Human Health, and Regional Growth and Development in Asia” -- Part II. South Asia -- Chapter 2. Food Consumption, Calorie Intake, and Undernourishment in India: The Recent Evidence on the Role of Welfare Schemes -- Chapter 3. The...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Exchange-Traded Funds - Concepts and Contexts -- Chapter 3: Information and Communcation Technologies for Financial Innovations -- Chapter 4: Exchange Traded Funds Markets Development in Asia-Pacific Region -- Chapter 5: ICT Deployment in the Asia-Pacific...

Chapter1.Introduction -- Chapter2.Shigenobu Nagamori and Nidec Corporation-Realize No.1 Motor Company through Developing a Knowledge-Creating Company -- Chapter3.Jun Lei and Xiaomi-Build Amazing Products with Honest Prices and Let Everyone Enjoy the Fun of Technology -- Chapter4.Guotian Liu and...

Preface -- Part 1: Population Distribution -- Trends in population change in the Asia-Pacific region -- Impact of rapid population decline on the Japanese regional economy: Utilizing the regional CGE model -- Designing a spatial decision support system for Australia’s capital city using...