Cover -- Contents -- Highlights -- The economic setting -- Country updates -- Policy briefs Long-run growth forecasts for Asia: Opportunities and challenges for the Pacific economies -- Fiscal management challenges in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste -- Update on fiscal modeling efforts in the...

Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current...

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Profitability, the Credit System, and the "Destruction of Capital" -- 3 Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Dot-com Boom and...

The turbulence of the stock market and the housing market in the early years of the 21st century have demonstrated the dangers of tying society too closely to financial markets. Managed by the Markets provides a guide to how we got here and unpacks the consequences of linking the well-being of...

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: The End of Globalization and the Problem of the Depression -- 2 Monetary Policy and Banking Instability -- 3 Tariffs, Trade Policy, and the Collapse of International Trade -- 4 The Reaction against International Migration -- 5 The Age of Nationalism versus...

Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links...

The revised edition of this highly acclaimed work presents crucial lessons from Japan's recession that could aid the US and other economies as they struggle to recover from the current financial crisis. This book is about Japan's 15-year long recession and how it affected current theoretical...

The annual Global Employment Trends reports provide the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty. They also analyse country-level issues and project trends in the labour market up to 2019