The chapters of the present book analyse contemporary societal challenges and changes in light of the social quality approach and French regulation...

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. ...