Professional economists believe that the development of basic industries in general and the steel industry in particular is the best beginning step...

Stock markets play an increasingly important part in economic life. This is true for the public at large, of corporations, of hedge funds, of regul...

A reverse mortgage is a special type of home loan for older homeowners that requires no monthly mortgage payments. Borrowers are still responsible ...

This book provides a guide to the progress made thus far in the transformation of Russian industry from exclusive reliance on state enterprises dur...

Regime change during the Arab Spring allowed Islamist political forces that long had been marginalized to achieve political influence in Tunisia, E...

A handful of developing countries are becoming major players in the global economy due, in part, to their large populations, rising trade flows, an...

Effective risk management is considered to be a leading competitive advantage that determines the survival and success of the company in an uncerta...

Governance designates all regulations intended for organisation and centralisation of human societies on a global scale. The management of corporat...

Venture capital (also known as VC or Venture) is a type of private equity capital typically provided for early-stage, high-potential, growth compan...

Rural residents have higher rates of age-adjusted mortality, disability, and chronic disease than their urban counterparts, though mortality and di...

Rural areas are home to about 50 million Americans and are an essential part of the overall economy. This book surveys the current state of rural A...

Our rural communities are home to some of the most hard working and fiercely self-reliant Americans in the United States. Strong and secure rural c...

Rural China in Focus: Political, Environmental and Social Issues first examines the factors that affect the decision of whether migrant parents sho...

Rural Development is a deliberate transformation towards the advancement of the financial and societal standard of living of the rural poor through...

This book provides a wide range of research on the country of Russia, which has established world-wide power and influence from the times of the Ru...

This book examines the current political, economic, security, and U.S. interest issues facing Russia today. Although Russia may not be as central t...

This book is a compilation of CRS reports on Russia today. The first chapter examines Russia’s 2018 presidential election, in which Russian Preside...

In the early 1990s, Georgia and its breakaway South Ossetia region had agreed to a Russian-mediated ceasefire that provided for Russian "peacekeepe...

The United States has had a bitter set of experiences with insurgencies and counterinsurgency operations, but it is by no means alone in having to ...

This book provides an overview of general legal and technical requirements for food and agricultural imports and exports imposed by the Russian Fed...

Russia's expanded engagement in Latin America has been seen as a response to escalating tension over its involvement in the Ukraine. Russia's activ...

Russia has undertaken several largely piecemeal and halting efforts to revamp the armed forces it inherited from the Soviet Union. In 2007, near th...

The North Caucasus region has been a source of instability for the past several centuries. Underlying social, economic, and political issues of the...

This book investigates the policy of Russia on the Caspian and in the nearby territories from old times to the beginning of the present millennium,...

This book discusses and dissects the strategies of international institutions and donors to assist it in its economic and political transition to a...

East-West relations have noticeably deteriorated during the Bush administration, and Russia's behaviour has become commensurately more self-asserti...

Increasingly, the armed forces have a vision of security as emphasising hard rather than soft security, a view which has come to the forefront in M...

Raising the share of income saved is a frequent aim of public policy. That may be particularly apparent in debates about the size of the federal bu...

The amount of money saved has important consequences. Nationally, the amount of saving affects how much can be invested and ultimately the size of ...

The inability of developing countries to charter a course for technology development and deployment, independent of developed countries, leads to a...

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In a globalized world, the international economic crisis that started in 2008 has led to structural changes in the international system and in the ...

This volume brings together eighteen studies on macroeconomic and regional modelling, dedicated to founding of the Macroeconomic Modelling Seminar ...

Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an origi...

Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an origi...

Ludwig von Mises, the author of such classics as 'Socialism and Human Action' is universally acknowledged as one of the most important classical li...

Due to the dialectical analysis of fundamental economic categories, the market economy appears as a complex, nonlinear, functionally closed (but ca...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the current, most critical challenges and issues facing Serbia, on its road towards integration in t...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the current, most critical political, economic and social issues, and challenges facing Serbia on it...

There is far less empirical and statistical studies performed with regard to the service sector than the manufacturing sector. The productivity of ...