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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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Jong-Dae Park (2019) - Part I Te Paradox of Sub-Saharan Africa: Disillusionment and Dilemma, Assessing the Role of Foreign Aid, Donors and Recipients. Part II Rethinking the Root Causes of Africa’s Under-Development: Review of Conventional Explanations, Uncovering the Main Root Cause: The Mindset Factor. Part III Africa’s Forgotten Mission of Nation-Building: What are Missing, Finding the Missing Links, Reasons for Optimism and the Tasks at Hand. Part IV Understanding Korean Develo...
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Authors : Tamas B ́ anyai (2019) - The concept of sustainability is important for companies both in the case of SMEs and worldwide multinational companies. Some key factors to help a company achieve its sustainability objectives are based on human resource management. Sustainable human resource management is a typical cross-functional task that becomes increasingly important at the strategic level of a company. Industry 4.0 technologies, Internet of Things, and competitive demands, as signs of...
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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 : 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 : Osborne, Martin J. (2023) - Models in Microeconomic Theory covers basic models in current microeconomic theory. Part I (Chapters 1-7) presents models of an economic agent, discussing abstract models of preferences, choice, and decision making under uncertainty, before turning to models of the consumer, the producer, and monopoly. Part II (Chapters 8-14) introduces the concept of equilibrium, beginning, unconventionally, with the models of the jungle and an economy with indivisible goods,...
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