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Authors : Pedro García Márquez, Fausto (2022) - This book presents a comprehensive overview of the principles and practices of decision-making. It highlights the interface between engineering/technology and the organizational, administrative, and planning abilities of decision-making. The chapters address decision-making using real-world case studies. They also discuss decision-making theory as well as relevant analysis techniques. The book blends computational techniques, dynamic analysis, probabilistic methods, and mathematical optimizati...
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Authors : Keijiro Otsuka; Kimiaki Jin; Tetsushi Sonobe (2018) - At present, how to develop industries is a burning issue in Africa, where population growth remains high and economic development has thus far failed to provide sufficient jobs for many, especially young people and women. The creation of productive jobs through industrial development ought to be a central issue in steering economic activity across the continent. The authors of this book, consisting of two development economists and five practitioner...
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Authors : Iris Lewandowski (2018) - Part I Bioeconomy Concepts and Research Methods: Bioeconomy Concepts, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in Bioeconomy. Part II Knowledge Base for Biobased Value Chains: Biobased Resources and Value Chains, Primary Production, Processing of Biobased Resources, Markets, Sustainability Management and Entrepreneurship. Part III Transition to a Sustainable Bioeconomy: Modelling and Tools Supporting the Transition to a Bioeconomy, Environmental Economics, the Bioeconomy and the Role of G...
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Authors : Yano, Makoto (2020) - This open access book contributes to the creation of a cyber ecosystem supported by blockchain technology in which technology and people can coexist in harmony. Blockchains have shown that trusted records, or ledgers, of permanent data can be stored on the Internet in a decentralized manner. The decentralization of the recording process is expected to significantly economize the cost of transactions. Creating a ledger on data, a blockchain makes...
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Authors : Valbrune, Mirande (2019) - Business Law I Essentials is a brief introductory textbook designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of courses on Business Law or the Legal Environment of Business. The concepts are presented in a streamlined manner, and cover the key concepts necessary to establish a strong foundation in the subject. The textbook follows a traditional approach to the study of business law. Each chapter contains learning objectives, explanatory narrative...
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Authors : Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis, (2020) - This special issue provides a collection of 15 papers with modern theories and applications for circular economy, engineering projects, entrepreneurship models, and investor decisions. After the commencing review on Occupational Health and Safety Management-Systems Standards, follow papers which can be classified into four categories which cover the overall scope of special issue. The first category includes papers regarding the micro-level of circular economy. This me...
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Authors : Zhang, Tao (2021) - Practice Circular Economy and Take the Road of Green Development, Circular Economy as a New Stage
of Economic Development, Sustainability Route for Industry 4.0: The Future of Global Circular Economic Transition, Regulation and Control of Economic Development. Opportunity and Future of Circular Economy Development, Responding to Changes in Environmental Turbulence - A Strategy to Driving Business Growth in Facing Economic Downturns.
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Authors : Paul Dobrescu (2019) - This open access book explores the most recent trneds in the EU in terms of development, progress, and performance. Ten years after the 2008 economic crisis, and amidst a digital revolution that is intensifying the development race, the European Union, and especially Central and Eastern Europe, are ardently searching for their development priorities. Against this background, by relying on a cross-national perspective, the authors reflect upon the develop...
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Authors : Makoto Yano (2020) - This book provides an in-depth examination of Japan’s policy responses to the economic challenges of the 1980s and ’90s. While MITI’s earlier role in promoting rapid growth has been addressed in other studies, this volume, based on official records and exhaustive interviews, is the first to examine the after- math of rapid growth and the evolution of MITI’s interpretation of the economy’s changing needs.The Mission of the Ministry of Internatio...
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Authors : Ephraim Nkonya; Alisher Mirzabaev; Joachim von Braun (2016) - This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation...
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Authors : Matyas, Laszlo (2017) - If treated as a single economy, the European Union is the largest in the world, with an estimated GDP of over 14 trillion euros. Despite its size, European economic policy has often lagged behind the rest of the world in its ability to generate growth and innovation. Much of the European economic research itself often trails behind that of the USA, which sets much of the agenda in mainstream economics. This book, also availa...
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Authors : Tetsushi Sonobe; Takashi Shiraishi (2019) - Emerging States and Economies in Asia: A Historical and Comparative Perspective, Globalization and the Emerging State: Past Advance and Future Challenges, The Asian Path of Economic Development: Intra-regional
Trade, Industrialization and the Developmental State, Financing Colonial State Building: A Comparative Study
of the 19th Century Singapore and Hong Kong, China’s Emerging State in Historical Perspective, A History of the Indian Economy in Asian and Gl...
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Authors : Keiichi Tsunekawa; Yasuyuki Todo (2019) - Part I Middle-Income Trap and Beyond: Responses to the Middle-Income Trap in China, Malaysia and Thailand, The Middle-Income Trap in the ASEAN-4 Countries from the Trade Structure Viewpoint Satoru Kumagai, Emerging States in Latin America: How and Why They Differ from Their Asian Counterparts, Economic and Political Networks and Firm Openness: Evidence from Indonesia, Industrial Technology Upgrading and Innovation Policies: A Comparison of Taiwan and Thailan...
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Authors : Pinstrup-Andersen (2016) - Food price volatility is a major challenge facing the global agricultural sys- tem today, most vividly illustrated during the global food crisis of 2007–9 when prices spiked for key staple commodities such as wheat, rice, maize and soybeans. Given the variety of reactions by countries experiencing food. price shocks, the crisis offered an excellent natural experiment for generating knowledge on responses to price volatility in particular, and on the...
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Authors : Gorana Krstic ́; Friedrich Schneider (2015) - The Shadow Economy: Challenges to Economic and Social Policy, The Concept of the Survey of Businesses and Entrepreneurs Operating Informally, Causes of the Shadow Economy, What Is the Extent of the Shadow Economy in Serbia? Shadow Economy in the Business and Entrepreneurial Sectors, Effects of Formalisation of the Shadow Economy, Analysis of the Administrative Capacity of the Institutions in Charge of Overseeing the Operations of Business Entities, Main&...
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Authors : Moisio, Sami (2018) - Towards a political geography of economic geographies 3, Three readings of the knowledge-based economy:
from economy to economization, Geopolitics and knowledge-based economization, Geopolitical discourses and objects of knowledge-based economization, On geopolitical subjects of knowledge-based economization, Higher education, geopolitical subject formation and knowledge-based economization, City geopolitics of knowledge-based economization, Coda: geopolitics of the knowledge-based economy,
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Authors : Charisios Achillas; Dionysis Bochtis (2021) - In recent years, bioeconomy strategies have been implemented and adapted internationally. In the bioeconomy, materials are to a certain extent circular by nature. However, biomaterials may also be used in a rather linear way. Lately, a transition towards a circular economy, a more restorative and regenerative economic model, is being promoted worldwide. Toward a Green, Closed-Loop, Circular Bioeconomy: Boosting the Performance Efficiency of Circular Business Model...
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Authors : Duncan, Green (2016) - Part I: A power and systems approach: Systems thinking changes everything, Power lies at the heart of change, Shifts in social norms often underpin change. Part II: Institutions and the importance of history: How states evolve, The machinery of law, Accountability, political parties, and the media, How the international system shapes change, Transnational corporations as drivers and targets of change. Part III: What activists can (and can’t) do: Cit...
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Authors : Bram Bouwens; Pierre-Yves Donzé; Takafumi Kurosawa (2017) - Changes in the dynamics of economic activities since the last decades of the 20th century have yielded major changes in the composition of industries and the division of labor and production across different regions of the world. Despite these shifts in the global economy, some industries have remained competitive even without relocating their operations overseas. Industries and Global Competition examines how and why the specificities of certain industr...
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Authors : Carlos Gradín; Murray Leibbrandt; Finn Tarp (2021) - Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty. For these reasons, it underpins intense public and academic debates and has become a dominant policy concern within many countries and in all multilateral agencies. It is at the core of the 17 goals...
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