Beyond US H25/10/2016egemony in International Development

Beyond US H25/10/2016egemony in International Development
Title Beyond US H25/10/2016egemony in International Development PDF eBook
Author Jiajun Xu
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 321
Release 2017
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1107172845

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This book provides essential background on China's bid for increasing influence over the US hegemonic architecture of international financial institutions.

Localizing Development

Localizing Development
Title Localizing Development PDF eBook
Author Ghazala Mansuri
Publisher World Bank Publications
Pages 348
Release 2013
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 082138256X

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This book examines the conceptual foundations of the participatory approach to local development, assesses the evidence of its efficacy, and draws key lessons for policy.

Dissecting Saving Dynamics

Dissecting Saving Dynamics
Title Dissecting Saving Dynamics PDF eBook
Author Mr.Christopher Carroll
Publisher International Monetary Fund
Pages 47
Release 2012-09-01
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1475505698

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We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate’s long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s - 2007), and recent substantial increase (2008 - 2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious ‘buffer stock’ model of optimal consumption in the presence of labor income uncertainty and credit constraints. Saving in the model is affected by the gap between ‘target’ and actual wealth, with the target wealth determined by credit conditions and uncertainty. An estimated structural version of the model suggests that increased credit availability accounts for most of the saving rate’s long-term decline, while fluctuations in net wealth and uncertainty capture the bulk of the business-cycle variation.

Transgovernance

Transgovernance
Title Transgovernance PDF eBook
Author Louis Meuleman
Publisher Springer
Pages 335
Release 2012-09-14
Genre Political Science
ISBN 3642280099

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‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion on sustainable development contribute to a knowledge democracy? How can concepts such as second modernity, reflexivity, configuration theory, (meta)governance theory and cultural theory contribute to a ‘transgovernance’ approach which goes beyond mainstream sustainability governance? This volume presents contributions from various angles: international relations, governance and metagovernance theory, (environmental) economics and innovation science. It offers challenging insights regarding institutions and transformation processes, and on the paradigms behind contemporary sustainability governance.This book gives the sustainability governance debate a new context. It transforms classical questions into new options for societal decision making and identifies starting points and strategies towards effective governance of transitions to sustainability.

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
Title The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens PDF eBook
Author Jenifer Neils
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 505
Release 2021-02-18
Genre History
ISBN 1108484557

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This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.

China's Innovation Challenge

China's Innovation Challenge
Title China's Innovation Challenge PDF eBook
Author Arie Y. Lewin
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 505
Release 2016-04-14
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1107127122

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This book argues that China must become an innovation-based economy to avoid the middle-income traps, and examines both the opportunities and challenges in meeting this goal.

The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century

The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century
Title The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century PDF eBook
Author John E. Lesch
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 474
Release 2013-04-17
Genre History
ISBN 9401593779

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In the twentieth century, dyes, pharmaceuticals, photographic products, explosives, insecticides, fertilizers, synthetic rubber, fuels, and fibers, plastics, and other products have flowed out of the chemical industry and into the consumer economies, war machines, farms, and medical practices of industrial societies. The German chemical industry has been a major site for the development and application of the science-based technologies that gave rise to these products, and has had an important role as exemplar, stimulus, and competitor in the international chemical industry. This volume explores the German chemical industry's scientific and technological dimension, its international connections, and its development after 1945. The authors relate scientific and technological change in the industry to evolving German political and economic circumstances, including two world wars, the rise and fall of National Socialism, the post-war division of Germany, and the emergence of a global economy. This book will be of interest to historians of modern Germany, to historians of science and technology, and to business and economic historians.