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Book Yearbook of Immigration Statistics

Download or read book Yearbook of Immigration Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Financial Statistics Yearbook  2013

Download or read book International Financial Statistics Yearbook 2013 written by International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IMF’s principal statistical publication, International Financial Statistics (IFS) Online, is the standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. For most countries, IFS Online reports data on balance of payments, international investment position, international liquidity, monetary and financial statistics, exchange rates, interest rates, prices, production, government accounts, national accounts, and population. Updated monthly.

Book Government Finance Statistics Yearbook  2010

Download or read book Government Finance Statistics Yearbook 2010 written by International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed annual data for Fund member governments are supplied on revenue income by source (tax, lending, bonds, etc.), and expenditure by sector (defense, education, health, etc.) for all levels of government (national, state, local). Topics covered include deficit/surplus or total financing, revenues or grants, expenditures, lending minus repayments, domestic financing, foreign financing, domestic debt or total debt, and foreign debt. The Yearbook provides data on budgetary operations, extra-budgetary operations, social security, and consolidated financial operations of central governments. A section of the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook is devoted to a cross-country comparison of data.

Book Living on the Boundaries

Download or read book Living on the Boundaries written by Carol Camp Yeakey and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first chapter to the last, this immensely insightful anthology richly details and informs us about the human condition, from multidisciplinary perspectives, about urban life in global contexts. It examines the complex, often controversial issues impacting those who live on the margins of society in our densely populated cities.

Book African Central Government Debt 2011 Statistical Yearbook

Download or read book African Central Government Debt 2011 Statistical Yearbook written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides comprehensive and consistent information on African central government debt statisticsfor 17 countries for the period 2003-2009.

Book Low Carbon Consumption in China  Residential Behavior  Corporate Practices and Policy Implication

Download or read book Low Carbon Consumption in China Residential Behavior Corporate Practices and Policy Implication written by Zhaohua Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores China’s low-carbon consumption in the context of residential behaviour, corporate practices and policy Implication. It first calculates the carbon and ecological footprints of residential consumption, including both direct and indirect emissions, before discussing Chinese residential behavioural aspects and determinants of electricity saving, low-carbon transportation, low-carbon product purchasing, and e-waste recycling. The authors then investigate the relationship between industrial growth and carbon emissions, using the example of the iron and steel industry to examine the motivation for energy intensive industries to reduce carbon emissions. They also consider energy efficiency and inter-company collaboration on carbon emission reduction. Lastly, the book describes the major low-carbon policies in China and their impact, economic cost and public acceptance.

Book On the Frontiers of Climate and Environmental Change

Download or read book On the Frontiers of Climate and Environmental Change written by Ole Bruun and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to fill a gap in climate-change literature by providing a comprehensive regional study and identifying the overall adaptation challenges in a real-life context. The way in which possible climate impacts interact with a range of other challenges in agriculture, forestry, disaster planning, health care, general economic development, and common livelihoods are presented, and it is argued that greater realism and broader vision are needed in order to address the climate challenge. For instance, unsuitable land- use changes in both coastal and highland regions may increase the vulnerability of rural people, many of whom are already living on the fringes. The author(s) also state(s) that, depending on context, it may be pertinent to address short-term and unsustainable resource use, irregularities in local land management, ineffective governance and social inequality, which are all likely to aggravate the impact of external climate and weather. Not least, it is imperative to integrate general environmental management with any climate-change adaptation effort.

Book Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics     Yearbook 2021

Download or read book Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics Yearbook 2021 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The FAO Yearbook of Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics, prepared by the Statistics Team of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, offers a synthesis of the major trends in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. Statistics are presented in eight main thematic chapters, covering statistics of production (total, aquaculture, capture fisheries), employment, fleet, consumption and trade, together with a section with selected tables and an Annex including notes, concepts, classifications and a map of FAO major fishing areas. The Yearbook is meant to constitute a primary tool for policymakers, researchers and analysts, as well as for the general public interested in the past and current paths of the sector.

Book Debating Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China

Download or read book Debating Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China written by Suisheng Zhao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume is a three-part study of whether the Chinese political system has maintained a significant degree of regime legitimacy in the context of rising domestic discontent, in particular the popular protests against socio-economic inequality and environment degradation. Part I presents the scholarly debate on the theoretical refinement and empirical measurement of regime legitimacy in contemporary China. Part II focuses on the challenges to regime legitimacy of the increasingly widespread popular protests and civil activism. Part III examines the regime’s responses to these challenges, including coercive repression, adaptation, and economic performance. This book finds that, while repression can hardly stop popular protests – and often backfires – economic performance legitimacy is increasingly difficult to be maintained. The only way out is the adaptation to the changing domestic and international environment. The chapters in this collection were originally published in the Journal of Contemporary China.

Book The Asian Developmental State

Download or read book The Asian Developmental State written by Yin-wah Chu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume re-examines the concept of the developmental state by providing further theoretical specifications, undertaking critical appraisal and theoretical re-interpretation, assessing its value for the emerging economies of China and India, and considering its applicability to South Korea and Taiwan.

Book The Other Kuala Lumpur

Download or read book The Other Kuala Lumpur written by Yeoh Seng Guan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kuala Lumpur, like many Southeast Asian cities, has changed very significantly in the last two or three decades – expanding its size, and 'modernising' and 'globalising' its built environment. For many people these changes represent 'progress' and 'development'. This book, however, focuses on the more marginalised residents of Kuala Lumpur. Among others, it considers street hawkers and vendors, refugees, the urban poor, religious minorities and a sexuality rights group, and explores how their everyday lives have been adversely affected by these recent changes. The book shows how urban renewal, the law and ethno-religious nationalism can work against these groups in wanting to live and work in the capital city of Malaysia.

Book Against the Consensus

Download or read book Against the Consensus written by Justin Yifu Lin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique analysis of the global financial crisis by Justin Yifu Lin, Chief Economist of the World Bank (2008-12).

Book Marketing Management in Asia

Download or read book Marketing Management in Asia written by Stanley Paliwoda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asia is no longer simply the continent to which the world turns for outsourcing and off shoring of production, leaving retailing to Western countries. Asia now contains many of the world’s largest markets plus many emergent markets as well. North America is fast ceding ground to China as the world’s largest economic power. Europe has been able to make productivity gains from trade, fiscal and monetary harmonization to remain globally competitive while Africa, whose nations practice free trade, is largely ignored both in terms of forgiving debt and providing further credit. Each chapter of this volume details the characteristics of an individual market in Asia and demonstrates the challenges that marketers are likely to face in these environments. Covering not just production or consumption but trade as it is practiced now, this book outlines the new norms, conventions and service performance levels that these markets demand.

Book Competitive Advantages through Clusters

Download or read book Competitive Advantages through Clusters written by Saša Šarić and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world over, clusters are home to leading firms and institutions that compete on the edge of technology. They can be found in developed and developing countries alike and comprise such famous ones as Silicon Valley, London ‟s financial center, ceramic tile and fashion in north Italy, wine in Bordeaux, automotive in Stuttgart and Munich, software in Bangalore, and manufacturing in China ‟s Pearl-river delta. Today they are studied by a variety of scholars from different fields including economists, social scientists, and strategists, but also by a growing number of business practitioners and policy makers.3 As a result, knowledge on the capacity of clusters to promote regional economic development and national prosperity and the role of local industrial policy in creating new clusters has increased rapidly in recent years The present research is best described as being exploratory in nature. It elaborates and extends existing theory. By doing so, it takes up a distinct position within scientific theory that is defined by three levels of analysis: (1) the meta-methodological level, (2) the methodological level, and (3) the theoretical level.

Book Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management

Download or read book Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management written by Jiuping Xu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM) held from July 25 to 27, 2014 at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal and organized by International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management (ISMSEM), Sichuan University (Chengdu, China) and Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal). The goals of the conference are to foster international research collaborations in Management Science and Engineering Management as well as to provide a forum to present current findings. A total number of 138 papers from 14 countries are selected for the proceedings by the conference scientific committee through rigorous referee review. The selected papers in the second volume are focused on Computing and Engineering Management covering areas of Computing Methodology, Project Management, Industrial Engineering and Information Technology.

Book Emerging Economies and Firms in the Global Crisis

Download or read book Emerging Economies and Firms in the Global Crisis written by Marin Marinov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of chapters that explore the impact of the global crisis on emerging economies and firms and their response to it. The ways in which the leading emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China are dealing with the challenges of the crisis are complemented by the methods applied by countries and firms in Central and Eastern Europe.

Book Teacher Labour Markets during an Era of Economic Boom

Download or read book Teacher Labour Markets during an Era of Economic Boom written by Ji Liu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-26 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to examine the underlying educational implications of rapid economic transformation, using illustrative analyses of teacher labour markets during the years of unprecedented economic growth in China. Combining historic document archive and empirical micro-level quantitative data, the book examines trends in teacher labour market and their relevant consequences by investigating wage-attractiveness of the teaching profession, consequential shifts in the composition of the teacher force, implications for student learning, and emerging alternative career destinations for teacher exits. While this book focuses on a specific country case, its analytic context is broadly relevant for a range of developing countries that aspire to better understand, through an occupational choice lens, how shifting economic landscapes influence teacher career decisions and consequentially teacher quality and student learning. Teacher policy scholars, comparative education researchers, labour economists, economic and education historians, teacher union researchers, and education policy makers will find this volume of interest.