This book focuses on the key role played by producer services in shaping new business areas and new patterns for social mobility, and their interdependence with the State and the emergence and flourishing of the new professions

This new book provides a selection of writings that cover trade, equity and development in Asia. Clem Tisdell, T.N. Srinivasan, Gustav Ranis and others write on countries from Pakistan and India to Korea and Indonesia

Presents encounters with rural men and women in South Asian and Southeast Asian countries working for local and national governments and for non-governmental organizations. This book includes six case studies that highlight the diversity of efforts to integrate social and gender analysis into...

E-Commerce has been receiving considerable attention in Asia. The Pan Asia Networking programme in International Development Research Centre, Canada commissioned a series of four studies to investigate the issues related to this business paradigm. The series was embarked to obtain an...

This book familiarizes readers with the Asia-Pacific region, presents the major social, economic and political issues, maps contemporary community development trends, and critically analyses the challenges of and opportunities for community development practice in the Asia-Pacific region

In the evolving environment of global financial markets, governments, corporations, individual investors, and their associated financial institutions must grapple with a host of thorny issues that affect emerging economies with particular force, as we saw during the Asian financial crisis of the...

In the 21st century, intangible resources such as knowledge and social capital have become as necessary to the modern economy as coal, diamonds, and oil were to the past. This shift from product-focused to service-focused economies necessitates a drastic re-thinking of the ways in which we...

Offers a brief introduction to ILO's knowledge base on Asia and the Pacific. The resource kit can be useful to people who have a general interest in the issues as well as specialists who need additional technical resources

Offers a brief introduction to ILO's knowledge base on Asia and the Pacific. The resource kit can be useful to people who have a general interest in the issues as well as specialists who need additional technical resources