Since the end of the recession, the gross domestic product has grown slowly and unemployment has remained at a high level. While the economy is sti...

In this book, Tullock focuses attention on the organisation of science, raising important questions about scientific inquiry and specifically about...

This book explains how change encompasses many different phenomena, occurs in a variety of ways, and can have widely divergent causes and driving f...

In Orientalism and the Myth of the Arab Mind, Nissim Rejwan deftly surveys, analyses, criticizes and dismisses the primarily Western Orientalists' ...

Microcredit banking is the brainchild of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus Professor of Economics at Chittagong University, Bangla...

Foreign direct investment is provoking a national debate. Local communities compete for investment projects, while many of the residents of those c...

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a wholly-owned U.S. government corporation, is referred to as the U.S. development finance inst...

While mainstream economists were convinced they had solved the business cycle phenomena of macroeconomic policy making, the Great Recession has onc...

This book provides accounts of the oversight and operations of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as reported by the office of the Inspector ...

A stable, democratic, prosperous Pakistan actively combating religious militancy is considered vital to U.S. interests. U.S. concerns regarding Pak...

This book summarises important recent developments in Pakistan and in Pakistan-U.S. relations. The Obama Administration's engagement with Pakistan ...

The Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Republic of Palau, which entered into force in 1994, provided for several types o...

The volume traces the evolution of Palestine-Israel conflict through several historically-informed and roughly chronological, yet overlapping, inve...

The West Bank and Gaza are comprised of about 2,400 square miles and have a combined population of 4.3 million people. The Palestinian Authority an...

On 28 June 2007, the United States and Panama signed a free trade agreement (FTA) after two and half years and ten rounds of negotiations. This boo...

Family and work structure most Americans' lives. Work provides the principal means by which most families support themselves, and public policies d...

This book reviews the basic theory of partial differential equations of the first and second order and discusses their applications in economics an...

The term "pay equity" originates from the fact that women as a group are paid less than men. In recent years, for example, women with a strong comm...

This book provides a summary and legislative history of P.L. 111-139, focusing on the features of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010. ...

Humanity is currently facing many critical challenges: a crisis in food production, the effects of climate change, and including global financial c...

The postmodern articulation of power brought along a change from structural view to a genealogy of power by stressing the circular, capillary and e...

This book provides background and analysis of the premiums charged by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), which is a government-owned ...

The ongoing global financial crisis, coupled with the continued dramatic increases in life expectancy, have escalated the concerns countries have r...

This book discusses the contextual factors such as cultural and institutional settings that impact on effective people management practices in Asia...

Asian and Pacific countries are rapidly emerging as engines of global growth. In 2006, the 7.9 percent increase in the size of the region's develop...

Precious metals are a class of metals deemed rare or highly valued, such as gold, silver, palladium, and platinum. Such metals can be bought and so...

Bandar Abbas, once a small fishing village, became the gateway port for Iran after Shah Abbas defeated the Portuguese in 1622. However, with the fa...

Muscat, the capital city of present day Oman, has had a long, and colorful history as a typical Indian Ocean port at the mouth of the Persian Gulf....

This book discusses the political and economic history of the port of Bushehr, which by the end of the eighteenth century had become the gateway to...

The history of the Persian Gulf during the 18th century is still little known. This gap is now being filled by the historian and renowned scholar W...

Considering the new possibilities offered by endogenous growth models and the improvement of data information, new variables have been introduced i...

This book presents and discusses contemporary political and economic studies of all aspects of the European Union. In addition, the book also publi...

If all politics are local, then all economics are also international, regional and local. Globalisation, for all its mystery and so-called inevitab...

While some may dispute that economics is the driving force behind much of history, nobody can argue that trade is not a significant factor in inter...

Peru and the United States have a strong and cooperative relationship. Several issues in U.S.-Peruvian relations are likely to be considered in dec...

This book intends to provide the reader with a number of perspectives about the complex political landscape of Peru. Further, its main objective is...

The United States and the Republic of the Philippines maintain close ties stemming from the U.S. colonial period (1898-1946), the bilateral securit...

The student's future as a knowledge worker is the starting point of this book on the philosophy of science. With this in mind, the book combines a ...

One of Canada's most successful homegrown buisnesses, Black's Photography grew from a single store to a national, and international, chain. Robert ...

By taking this heart-rending journey into his own luminous past and the more remote and sombre past of the lumber-town where he grew up, Al Sandine...

Over the past 25 years, the relationship between the United States and Poland has been close and cooperative. The United States strongly supported ...

The book explores historical legacy, cultural relations, economic ties, and communications between the two nations. Contributors: Ivan L. Rudnytsky...

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