Understanding exporting in the small and micro firm presents an SOR model that owners/managers and public policy makers can use to help them develo...

During recent years, news headlines have been rife with criticisms of the risk management practices of public and private sector entities. These cr...

The book is divided into three sections. The first section examines issues in relation to corporate governance in the private sector, with emphasis...

The institutional endowment of a country determines government's regulatory choices, the public policies, incentives, and the direction of economic...

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has declared the U.S. economy to be in recession since December 2007. In response to high unemploym...

The unemployment rate has greatly increased since the onset of the recession in December 2007, when it measured 5.0%. The rate peaked at 10.1% in O...

The global economic crisis has had numerous implications for individuals, businesses and policy makers, but none were as profound and as socially a...

This book discusses unemployment and its relations to economic, political and social aspects. The first chapter studies the relationship of unemplo...

The most recent recession led to an unprecedented increase in the number of those unemployed for more than 26 weeks (the long-term unemployed). As ...

Unemployment insurance (UI) is a federal-state system and mandatory AJC partner. UI benefits are available to workers who have involuntarily lost t...

This book examines the antipoverty effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits over the past three recessions. The analysis especially focuses ...

The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) culminated years of efforts by state and local government officials and various business interests ...

The total U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population in 2009 was estimated to be slightly more than 301 million, of whom 15.1% or 45.5 million,...

This book examines the strategic risk posed by a smaller and restructured Army; the "health" of the Army given the impending downsizing; the draw-d...

U.S. aid to the Palestinians is intended to forward at least three major U.S. policy priorities of interest to Congress: 1) combating, neutralising...

The nation's budget situation is challenging. In February 2009, the CBO projected that the deficit in 2009 will reach more than $1.4 trillion, whic...

Budgeting for the federal government is an enormously complex process. It entails dozens of sub-processes, countless rules and procedures, the effo...

The Arctic region faces growing economic, environmental, and cultural challenges, heightening the need for co-ordinated research across institution...

The signing of the Maastricht treaty created economic structure and institutions, and set in motion the process of adopting a common currency. The ...

U.S. foreign-trade zones (FTZs) are geographic areas declared to be outside the normal customs territory of the United States. This means that, for...

This book examines the significance, prospects, and policy options of U.S.-Japan economic relations. Japan and the United States are the two larges...

Universal Economics is a new work that bears a strong resemblance to its two predecessors, University Economics (1964, 1967, 1972) and Exchange and...

This book introduces us to his life story which is equally as fascinating as that of other who make a political virtue of their humble origins. In ...

Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert a...

This book begins with an introduction to urban studies and urbanisation. It provides an analysis of the patterns of urbanisation which are essentia...

The federal budget is the primary policy statement of the President's fiscal priorities and proposals for allocating expenditures and taxes. The bu...

This new book presents an overview of trade in financial services by the United States. It delineates the framework of US foreign trade in financia...

On 31 July 2003, the Senate and, on July 24, the House passed H.R.2739 (United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act) which is t...

As the world's leading market for electronic products, the United States generates large quantities of used electronic products (UEPs) each year. U...

Public utilities constitute a large section of Europe' economy, and they have historically been at the centre of national states and their industri...

Uzbekistan gained independence at the end of 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union. The landlocked country is a potential Central Asian regiona...

The theory of value is probably the most disputed feature of Marx’ political economy, while mostly another problem – namely the issue of transforma...