Economy & Finance

In the year 2000, the international community agreed to a framework to address global poverty, known as the Millennium Developmemt Goals, with an end-date of 2015. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy.

This volume is dedicated to the memory and the achievements of Professor Sir Clive Granger, economics Nobel laureate and one of the great econometricians and applied economists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It was originally published as a special issue of Applied Financial Economics.

This collection presents a comprehensive engagement of issues of human rights in an increasingly globalized world. Using a variety of methodologies to engage issues ranging from national court compliance, norm diffusion, and the role of the judiciary in fulfilling human rights to human trafficking, same-sex marriage, and judicial institution bui

This innovative book is the first to offer a Europe-wide perspective on the shapers of party politics on the issue of territorial reform. Through a series of country case-studies, the book shows how the strategic incentives and internal constraints of state-wide parties, and the national context in which they compete, shape their strategy toward

This book explores how the EU's competition policy has responded to and shaped globalization of the world economy in the last few decades. With focused contributions on state aid, merger policy, cartels and the international dimensions of competition policy, the contributors examine how the European Commission has dealt with major challenges ari

This edited volume examines social movements in South America and the Caribbean and points to the political transformations that have occurred there in the last twenty years, particularly in relation to poverty.The book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

This book examines the complex regulation and deregulation of energy, communications, transportation and water utilities across Western Europe, the United States, Australia, Brazil, China and India by drawing attention to the changing roles of the state, the market and firms in the regulation, organization and delivery of utility services.

This book brings together a sample of real-world cases and of conceptual proposals bridging between practitioners and researchers in the field of futures research.

The book provides a detailed account, from the perspective of evolutionary economics, of the ways in which new technological pathways in renewable energy technologies may be created in historical conditions of path dependence and lock-in.This book was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.

The ideas contained in Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies-one of the most important tracts in political philosophy in the twentieth century-are relevant to anyone seeking to understand the recent history of the East Asian economies. Even though Popper wrote his tract to provide an explanation for both the rise and objectionabl

This book presents the state of the art concerning "The capability approach and sustainability" and is a major contribution to the emerging field that deserves our attention: Defining what is to be sustained and asking how it can be sustained.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabiliti

The case study, whether a simple scenario about choices in decision-making or a multi-dimensional narrative of conflicts and dilemmas, is a rich source of knowledge, ideas, and insights. Using case studies as a method to document and learn the experiences of nations and their institutions reveal the perspectives, rationale, trade-offs and actions of governments and people. This book is a collection of case studies on the development of Singapore institutions. Here, a total of five case studies encompassing the areas of urban governance, education, social security and industrial relations are presented, each carefully selected to profile a particular sector. These case studies describe the importance of culture, leadership, and systems in building institutions, and how interactions between people - leaders and employees - and the organizations they belong to can influence institutional culture. This publication seeks to deepen global understanding of the Singapore government and its form of governance, as well as to advance theories and concepts of sustainable development on a global stage.

This is a useful handbook for anyone involved in the current London Market that leads the insurance professional through all aspects of reinsurance practice.

This book examines East Asia's inter-state collaborative energy projects to address energy vulnerability. It focuses on projects that have demonstrated effectiveness in addressing vulnerabilities faced by the ten states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China, Japan, and South Korea in Northeast Asia.

In this edited collection, the new science of complexity is explained and illustrated through the journeys of 9 leading scholars who have applied it in fields such as psychology, social change, Buddhism, creativity, and future studies.This book was originally published as a special issue of World Futures.

The ability to manage government departments and operations has become less important than the ability to navigate the complex world of interconnected policy implementation processes. Public sector reform policies and programmes, as a consequence, are a study in the complexities of the institutional and environmental context in which these reforms

The last ten years have seen an enormous surge of interest in issues that are common to psychology and economics. This book explores some of the ways in which economists and psychologists have tried to answer these questions. It was originally published as a special issue of New Zealand Economic Papers.