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  • National and Global Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Do Leaders Matter?

    by A.S. Bhalla ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book traces the evolution of Covid across different geographic regions, showing how the varying responses of leaders, citizens and other key stakeholders in efforts to tackle the Covid crisis determined outcomes. It finds that leadership, in particular, played a critical role, while initial conditions, such as health-care spending and infrastructure are important factors contributing to a ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Asia’s Trouble Spots

    The Leadership Question in Conflict Resolution

    by A. S. Bhalla ...
    The art of successful negotiations over protracted conflicts presupposes a political commitment to peace and a willingness to compromise, which are sorely lacking in the current disorderly world. Part of the blame for this lies in weak and ineffective national and global leadership. This book’s sharp focus on the role of leadership at different levels—national government, rebel and Western ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Poverty and Exclusion of Minorities in China and India

    by Dan Luo, A.S. Bhalla ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book, a second edition, includes new data from the 2010 Census of India and NSS reports on consumer expenditure (2011-12), health and education (2014) to examine poverty in China and India, and how it connects with minorities. Poverty has generally become less acute in both China and India, thanks to an impressively rapid growth especially between 2010 and 2015 when the rest of the world ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Switzerland Then and Now

    by A.S. Bhalla ...
    The book is a sequel to author’s earlier book on Switzerland, Glimpses of Medieval Switzerland. It breaks new ground by examining how medieval Switzerland has changed into today’s tolerant country in accepting tourists from different cultures despite growing anti-immigrant attitudes, welcoming Indian mystics as well as film producers and directors (even honouring them!) and adopting such practices ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Employment Impact of China's WTO Accession

    by A. S. Bhalla, Shufang Qiu, S. Qiu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    The book explores the macroeconomic and sectoral employment implications (in agriculture, industry and services) of China's World Trade Organisation accession. It argues that while short-run employment losses may occur, in the longer term China will be able to generate additional employment particularly in the tertiary sectors; and that it can maintain its comparative advantage in labour-intensive ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Arthur R. Kroeber ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the ... Read more

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  • The Great Escape

    Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

    by Angus Deaton ...
    The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting 250 years ago, some parts of the ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

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  • The Chinese Economy, second edition

    Adaptation and Growth

    by Barry J. Naughton ...
    The new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the “miracle growth” period.This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both a broadly focused ... Read more

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  • About Canada: Health Care, 2nd ed.

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
    Series Book 10 - About Canada
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  • The China Boom

    Why China Will Not Rule the World

    by Ho-fung Hung ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
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  • PAP v. PAP

    The Party’s Struggle to Adapt to a Changing Singapore

    by Cherian George, Donald Low ...
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