Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Vietnam's Economic Policy -- Chapter 3. State-Owned Enterprises in Vietnam: Challenges Facing the Privatization Process -- Chapter 4. Participating in Global Value Chains: The Case of Small and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam -- Chapter 5. Marketing in Vietnam...

1: Introduction and Rethinking Contract Farming -- 2: Punjab: An Interesting place to study Agrarian Change -- 3: Understanding the Social Relations of Contract Farming -- 4: Stating the (not so) obvious: The ‘Interventionist Neoliberal State’ in India -- 5: Understanding CF: CF as a...

This book compares and contrasts the motivations, morality, and effectiveness of space exploration when pursued by private entrepreneurs as opposed to government. The authors advocate market-driven, private initiatives take the lead through enhanced competition and significant resources that can...

Part I. Philosophy -- Chapter 1: Property and Exploitation -- Chapter 2: The Moral Dimensions of Poverty, Entitlements and Theft -- Chapter 3: Ona’ah -- Part II. Libertarian Property Rights Theory -- Chapter 4: Hayek's Road to Serfdom -- Chapter 5: Block vs. Friedman on Hayek -- Chapter 6:...

1 Paving the Way to the Privatization of Public Financial Services -- 2 Privatization of Public Financial Services and Financial Reforms -- 3 Progress after the Privatization of Public Financial Services and Trends by Type of Financial Institution: Listing of Japan Post Bank and Reorganization...

This book provides an overview of the growth of the private higher education sector in China and in addition provides an analysis of some of the key drivers of this growth and impediments to it. What is new about the book is that it combines the results of a series of interviews with work that...

Preface -- Chapter 1. Privatization of Public City Gas Utilities in Japan: Reasons, Objectives, and Methods -- Chapter 2. Survival Analysis of Public Gas Utility Firms in the Japanese Urban Gas Industry -- Chapter 3. Concession in infrastructure management: A case of public gas service in Japan...

Section 1: Corporate Governance, Strategy and the Legal framework.-Chapter 1: Strategy, Independence, and Governance of State-owned Enterprises in Asia (Henrique Schneider).-Chapter 2: Enhancing the Transparency and Accountability of State-Owned Enterprises (Chung-a Park and Hans Christiansen)...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Are Current Policies on Track to Eliminate Poverty? -- Chapter 3. How Mainstream Economics Works -- Chapter 4. Basic Principles to Understand Macroeconomics -- Chapter 5. Markets Alone Make No Development -- Chapter 6. Developing Countries in Global...

Convergence to the Centre -- Financial Markets: Banks Capital Markets -- Firm Size, Productivity, EU-Funds and Corruption -- Labour Markets: Structural Characteristics and the Impact of Two Crises -- Transport and Mobility -- Monetary, Macroprudential, and Fiscal Policy -- Green Economy: Energy,...