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Report copyright infringementby Henry K. H. Woo (Author)A deepening economic crisis and a demoralized work force are the primary issues of concern in Henry K.H. Woo's examination of the overall direction of reform in China. Untenable reform initiatives during the 1980s which led to public disillusionment, financial chaos, and ultimately to the bloody collision between government and students in 1989 are closely scrutinized with a commitment to their remedy. Woo's recommendations for viable re...

The Public Debt of the United States: An Historical Perspective, 1775-1990

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Report copyright infringementby Donald Stabile (Author), Jeffrey a. Cantor (Author), Donald R. Stabile (Author)Based on extensive primary source analysis and in-depth interviews with key figures in the field of public debt administration and policy development, this volume presents a comprehensive history of the U.S. public debt from 1775--when the first debt was incurred to finance the Revolutionary War--to the present. The authors document how the public debt has accumulated and review the ...

United States Policies and the Latin American Economies

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Report copyright infringementby Werner Baer (Editor), Donald V. Coes (Editor), Werner Baer (Other)Written by a distinguished group of noted Latin American experts, this volume analyzes the complex economic relationship between the United States and Latin America during the 1980s and into the 1990s. As the editors assert at the outset, the United States has not had a cohesive policy toward Latin America since the Kennedy administration's Alliance for Progress. Instead, policy has vacillated, t...

China's Economic Opening to the Outside World: The Politics of Empowerment

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan R. Woetzel (Author)Based on information derived from interviews with the employees of over 30 companies in the People's Republic of China, this is the first book-length study to analyze China's turn to the outside world since 1976. The author presents both a detailed historical perspective and an interpretive explanation of China's opening, making this a unique contribution to the literature of contemporary China. By combining a traditional interest gr...

Women's Life Cycle and Economic Insecurity: Problems and Proposals

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Report copyright infringementby Martha Ozawa (Author)... cover[s] the effects of the life-cycle experiences of teenage pregnancy and childbearing, divorce, and years of widowhood on women's economic status and poverty rate (the feminization of poverty). . . . Ozawa finds a conflict between women's traditional nurturing and caring roles and the development of their earning capability. Interesting statistical tables and a selected bibliography. Choice Gender, like race and ethnicity, is an incr...

Africa and the Challenge of Development: Acquiescence and Dependency Versus Freedom and Development

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Report copyright infringementby Ahmad Abubakar (Author)Although much has been written about African development since the beginning of independence, officials in government have contributed very few studies directly involved in development work. This book fills that gap by providing a practically-oriented analysis of Africa's ongoing development problems. In contrast to most theoretical works which attempt to explain underdevelopment as the result of a lack of capital, manpower shortages, or ...

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Report copyright infringementby State Statistical Bureau Peoples Republi (Author), State Statistical Bureau Peoples Republ (Author), State Statistical Bureau of the People's (Editor)The latest edition in the China Statistics Series, China Rural Statistics 1988 offers essential basic information on China's rural economic and social development and the outcome of rural reform. There are eleven sections: Rural Basic Statistics; Total Output Value of Rural Society; Output of Major Farm Crops, Liv...

New Approaches to Economic and Social Analyses of Discrimination

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Report copyright infringementby Richard R. Cornwall (Editor), Phanindra V. Wunnava (Editor), Richard R. Cornwall (Other)This volume examines the concept and social phenomenon of discrimination from economic and sociological perspectives. It brings together the work of a wide range of sociologists and economists and provides a spectrum of methodological and ideological views on this highly charged topic. The breadth of topics and approaches offered here include classical Marxist ideas on rival...

Developmental Issues in Small Island Economies

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Report copyright infringementby David L. McKee (Author), Clem A. Tisdell (Author), Clement A. Tisdell (Author)This volume fills a gap in the literature by analyzing basic issues in development economics as they affect a particular type of Third World nation - small island economies. Using practical examples from the Caribbean Basin and the South Pacific, the authors examine in depth structural and employment issues, demographic and socioeconomic issues, and environmental and natural resource ...

Disarmament, Economic Conversion, and Management of Peace

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Rennie Forcey (Author), Manas Chatterji (Editor), Linda Rennie Forcey (Editor)This important volume tackles the potential problems of international military disarmament. Distinguished scholars across several disciplines discuss possible negative economic and social consequences, including unemployment, conversion costs, and the related hampered growth of research and development, associated with the conversion from a military industrial economy to a civil...

Latin American Debt and Adjustment: External Shocks and Macroeconomic Policies

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Report copyright infringementby Philip L. Brock (Editor), Michael B. Connolly (Editor), Claudio Gonzalez-Vega (Editor)The fourteen papers presented in this volume are thought-provoking studies of the economic adjustment of Latin America to the difficult external environment of the 1980s. The anthology evolved out of a group of papers presented at the Third Dominican Republic Conference on International Debt and Adjustment in 1986. A number of the papers were updated and are presented here alo...

Economic Adjustment Policies for Small Nations: Theory and Experience in the English-Speaking Caribbean

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Report copyright infringementby Delisle Worrell (Editor), Compton Bourne (Editor), Delisle Worrell (Other)Delisle Worrell . . . has written a thoughtful book that will be of value to businessmen, academics, policy analysts and others interested in the Caribbean. . . . The book covers many . . . important topics, such as regional economic integration, external debt and the growth of Caribbean manufacturing. The six technical appendices include an economic forecasting model for the Caribbean. T...

Homelessness Amid Affluence: Structure and Paradox in the American Political Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Michael H. Lang (Author)Approaching the problem of homelessness from a broad public policy perspective, Lang focuses on the American political economy and how it permits community development patterns based on racism and self-interest. This interdisciplinary study challenges the belief that homelessness is entirely due to the Reagan administration's cutbacks. Instead, it suggests the need for reform in our housing and employment policies. The book reviews compe...

The Political Economy of Ethnic Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Comparative Perspective

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Report copyright infringementby Michael L. Wyzan (Editor), Michael Louis Wyzan (Other)The nine essays collected here examine ethnic relations, discrimination, and affirmative action in different regions of the world. The contributors focus throughout on the political economy of ethnic relations - an area that has until now been largely neglected in the literature. Written by economists, the papers both offer theoretical and empirical insights into standard neoclassical models of discriminatio...

The Politics of Foreign Aid: U.S. Foreign Assistance and Aid to Israel

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Report copyright infringementby Muhammad Rabi' (Author), Mohamed Rabie (Author)United States aid to Israel averages a staggering $21 billion per year. Yet, as this insightful volume explains, that aid has failed to serve both U.S. and Israeli interests. The Politics of Foreign Aid discusses how the appropriation of foreign aid is often controlled by lobbyists and U.S. domestic concerns rather than by Israeli needs. This clear and thorough examination begins with a description of the objective...

The Energy-Economy Link: New Strategies for the Asia-Pacific Region

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Report copyright infringementby William E. James (Editor), William E. James (Other)The papers collected here, originally presented at a seminar cosponsored by the East-West Center and the Asian Productivity Organization, address the links between energy sector performance and economic development in the Asia-Pacific region. The contributors include senior-level government officials and researchers concerned with energy planning and economic development. Their aim throughout is to identify the...

U.S.-Mexican Economic Relations: Prospects and Problems

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Report copyright infringementby Khosrow Fatemi (Author)Fatemi's edited volume is a refreshing contribution to the already voluminous literature on US-Mexican economic relation. . . . This list is broad enough to provide an introduction to US-Mexican economic relations for the novice reader, while US-Mexico specialists will benefit from the analysis of current data and new perspectives on familiar issues. In short, a valuable addition to both academic and public library collections. Choice Thi...

The Japanese Stock Market: Pricing Systems and Accounting Information

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Report copyright infringementby Shigeki Sakakibara (Author), Hidetoshi Yamaji (Author), Hisakatsu Sakurai (Author)This timely volume brings together professors of finance and accounting from Japanese universities to examine the Japanese stock market in terms of its pricing and accounting systems. The papers report the results of empirical research into the Japanese stock market within the framework of new theories of finance. Academics, professionals, and anyone seeking to understand or enter...

The State, Bureaucracy, and Revolution in Modern Iran: Agrarian Reforms and Regime Politics

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Report copyright infringementby Ali Farazmand (Author)Farazmand, a former bureaucrat in the Pahlavi state administration, argues that the latter functioned more to maintain the state and to control society than to provide its population with services and with help for development. In the long run, such a self-serving thrust proved destructive and was one reason for the state's final collapse in the 1979 revolution. Choice Covering the period from 1950 through 1988 this book examines the role ...

Industrial Research and Development in Israel: Patterns and Portents

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Report copyright infringementby A. Lavi (Author), Arie Lavie (Author), Lawrence Robert Kuhn (Author)The most critical need second only to military support for the State of Israel is the economic expansion of its science-based industry--an industry that exploded in the 1970's due to a flood of public support for technological advancement. Industrial Research and Development in Israel investigates Israel's present industrial research situation and maps out the years to come as the nation strive...

Canadian-American Economic Relations: Conflict and Cooperation on a Continental Scale

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Report copyright infringementby David L. McKee (Editor), David L. McKee (Other)This volume brings together leading academic experts from the U.S. and Canada to explore the crucial economic relationship between their two countries--each of whom is the other's largest trading partner. The essays, all specially written for this study, provide an integrated, balanced examination of the strengths and weaknesses inherent in the relationship and discuss reasons for the increasing difficulties experi...

Hidden Unemployment: Discouraged Workers and Public Policy

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Report copyright infringementby Terry F. Buss (Author), F. Stevens Redburn (Author)This timely and important work addresses the controversy surrounding discouragement among the unemployed. Using an unprecedented set of national and local studies, and drawing on disparate research in nearly every social science discipline, the authors produce an original, highly detailed portrait of discouraged workers. From their analysis they offer recommendations on what can be done to promote employment an...

Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration - Paperback

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by Aviva Chomsky (Author)Restores the region's fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States' interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today. At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States. In Central America's Forgotten History, Aviva Chomsky answers the urgent question "How did we get here?" C...

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by Betty Friedan (Author), Gail Collins (Introduction by), Anna Quindlen (Afterword by)Landmark, groundbreaking, classic--these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of "the problem that has no name" the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women's confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. Writing in a time when the average woman firs...

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Kitchen (Author) Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.36 x 8.6 x 5.62 IN Publication Date: May 15, 1983

Petroleum and Structural Change in a Developing Country: The Case of Nigeria

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Report copyright infringementby Peter O. Olayiwola (Author), P. Olayiwola (Author)This work explores problems in national development in the Third World using Nigeria during the petroleum boom as a case study. The book explores how historical, political, ideological, economic, social, and cultural factors affected Nigeria's development and policies. Special attention is devoted to the development paradigms that influenced Nigerian development thinking, the national planning apparatus, nationa...

Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization

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Report copyright infringementby Ash Amin (Editor), Joanne Roberts (Editor)How knowledge is created, and how innovation in products and practices occurs, have been long-standing concerns of socio-economists. This book argues that 'communities of practice', communities and networks of joint enterprise, are the prime site where knowledge and innovation are generated. It sees the everyday interaction that takes place in different working and professional contexts as producing this creativity, lea...

Women in the Labour Market in Changing Economies: Demographic Issues

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Report copyright infringementby John Langone (Author), Brigida Garcia (Editor), Antonella Pinnelli (Editor)Increased female participation in the labour market is a very significant feature of recent economic development. This volume analyzes how demographic conditions have favored or slowed the increase and what the demographic effects of the increase will be.Author BiographyBrígida García is Professor at the Centre for Demographic and Urban Studies of El Colegio de México, México City. She h...

Who Needs Migrant Workers?: Labour Shortages, Immigration, and Public Policy

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Report copyright infringementby Martin Ruhs (Author), Bridget Anderson (Author)Are migrant workers needed to "do the jobs that locals will not do" or are they simply a more exploitable labor force? Do they have a better "work ethic" or are they less able to complain? Is migrant labor the solution to "skills shortages" or actually part of the problem? This book provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing the demand for migrant workers in high-income countries. It demonstrates how a wide r...

Resisting Marginalization: Unemployment Experience and Social Policy in the European Union

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Report copyright infringementby Duncan Gallie (Editor)This is a major new contribution to work on unemployment in Europe. Leading scholars come together to provide a comparative analysis of social policies for combating marginalization of the unemployed across the European Union. Drawing on the results of important research programmes funded by the European Commission, the book puts forward the case for a substantial revision of current policy priorities. Number of Pages: 304 ...

Population Matters 'Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Poverty

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Birdsall (Editor), Allen C. Kelley (Editor), Steven W. Sinding (Editor)Does rapid population growth diminish countries' economic development prospects? Do policies aimed at reducing high fertility help families escape poverty? These questions have been at the heart of policy debates since the time of Malthus, and have been particularly heated during the last half-century of explosive Third World population growth. In this carefully constructed collection ...

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Report copyright infringementby Duncan Gallie (Editor)This book breaks new ground by bringing together recent research into the determinants of marginalization risks for the unemployed and research into new social policies for combating marginalization. It examines the major controversies about how far entrapment in unemployment is due to resource constraints, motivational problems, or skill deficiency. It examines the forms that new policies have taken, the way they vary between EU countries...