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Asia is widely regarded as having benefited most from the dynamic growth effect of the recent wave of globalization. By … examining mechanisms at work in the globalization-poverty nexus through specific case studies reflecting different settings, the … book seeks to find ways to rediscover and resume a pattern of shared growth in Asia …
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1 The Chinese Birdcage -- 2 Western Triumphalism -- 3 China as the World's Factory -- 4 Housing Bubbles across the Western Hemisphere -- 5 The Global Financial Crisis -- 6 The Economic Fallout -- 7 Unlimited Supplies of Labor -- 8 China's Economic Development -- 9 Global Imbalances and Corporate...
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analyses the economic and institutional changes in both Europe and Asia. There is considerable potential for instability, but …
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processes of agricultural transformations and their interaction with the overall economies of Africa, Asia and Latin America …
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Much has been written about the wealth of nations, the history of unequal distribution and zones of affluence and deprivation within and between societies. This book explores why some Asian nations are more prosperous than others through an examination of how their interaction with and...
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The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to blight during the Great Famine of Ireland. The author argues that the worst affected districts with a microfinance fund experienced substantially smaller population declines and...
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This book reviews the fulfillment of two Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely poverty and inequality, in the … Indian subcontinent. It examines the complex interplay among development, inequality and poverty in relation to corruption … improve livelihoods and standards of living through poverty reduction and promoting inclusive development along with …
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This book examines various facets of the development process such as aid, poverty, caste networks, corruption, and …
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This book sheds light on the dollarization trends of four transitional economies in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Lao PDR … students, researchers and policy makers concerned with dollarization and economics in Southeast Asia …Chapter 1. Introduction: Dollarization and de-dollarization in transitional economies of Southeast Asia: An overview …
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