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  • Mobility of Health Professionals

    Health Systems, Work Conditions, Patterns of Health Workers' Mobility and Implications for Policy Makers

    by Frits Tjadens, Caren Weilandt, Josef Eckert ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book on mobility of health professionals reviews, analyses and summarises published information and data as well as collected interview data from stake holders, including politicians, policy makers, health service managers and migrant health workers. It is based on the research carried out under the umbrella of the EU-funded project “Mobility of Health Professionals (MoHProf).The partners ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Thinking Big Data in Geography

    New Regimes, New Research

    Edited by Jim Thatcher, Andrew Shears, Josef Eckert ...
    Thinking Big Data in Geography offers a practical state-of-the-field overview of big data as both a means and an object of research, with essays from prominent and emerging scholars such as Rob Kitchin, Renee Sieber, and Mark Graham. Part 1 explores how the advent of geoweb technologies and big data sets has influenced some of geography’s major subdisciplines: urban politics and political economy, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • War by Other Means

    Geoeconomics and Statecraft

    by Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill, Jennifer M. Harris ...
    Today, nations increasingly carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Policies governing everything from trade and investment to energy and exchange rates are wielded as tools to win diplomatic allies, punish adversaries, and coerce those in between. Not so in the United States, however. America still too often reaches for the gun over the purse to advance its interests abroad. The ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Business Environment of Europe

    Firms, Governments, and Institutions

    by Terrence R. Guay ...
    The Business Environment of Europe is the first textbook to provide a complete overview of Europe's business landscape, examining the region's diverse economies and government policies within historical, political, and cultural contexts. This well-researched text examines the European Union and select European nations, and leads students to a full understanding of the structure and dynamics of ... Read more

    $72.19 USD

  • Minimum Wages, Pay Equity, and Comparative Industrial Relations

    by Damian Grimshaw ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    With growing concern about the conditions facing low wage workers and new challenges to traditional forms of labor market protection, this book offers a timely analysis of the purpose and effectiveness of minimum wages in different European countries. Building on original industry case studies, the analysis goes beyond general debates about the relative merits of labor market regulation to reveal ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Economics and Politics of Oil in the Caspian Basin

    The Redistribution of Oil Revenues in Azerbaijan and Central Asia

    Edited by Boris Najman, Richard Pomfret, Gaël Raballand ...
    Series series Central Asia Research Forum
    The Caspian Basin region has boomed since the late 1990s due to new oil discoveries, new pipelines that have diversified countries' transport options and world oil prices that have risen from below $10 in 1998 to $70 in 2006.This book analyzes the experience of the Caspian countries during the oil boom. It is founded on empirical studies, using either macroeconomic tools or an analysis of public ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cities in a Globalizing World

    Global Report on Human Settlements

    by Un-Habitat ...
    'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central challenge for the international community is clear: to make both urbanization and globalization ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Chinese Investment in Africa

    How African Countries Can Position Themselves to Benefit from China’s Foray into Africa

    by David N. Abdulai ...
    China leads the world when it comes to investment and influence on the African continent. The extent of Chinese investment in Africa is well known and much has been written about China’s foray into Africa. However, most of the available material has approached this issue by looking at China as the ’New Colonialist’ – more interested in Africa’s vast natural resources than working in partnership ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Oil Is Not a Curse

    Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States

    by Pauline Jones Luong, Erika Weinthal ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This 2010 book makes two central claims: first, that mineral-rich states are cursed not by their wealth but, rather, by the ownership structure they choose to manage their mineral wealth and second, that weak institutions are not inevitable in mineral-rich states. Each represents a significant departure from the conventional resource curse literature, which has treated ownership structure as a ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Advances in Geoeconomics

    Edited by J Mark Munoz ...
    Series series Europa Economic Perspectives
    While geopolitics has captured global attention, geoeconomics is the often hidden force that governs countries’ relationships. It is the economic psyche that shapes the new world order. Geoeconomics refers to the intersection of economic factors, relationships and conditions on global events. A country’s political and business alignments have an impact on individuals, companies and on future ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Central Banking Technical Assistance to Countries in Transition: Papers and Proceedings of the Meeting of Donor and Recipient Central Banks and International Institutions

    Edited by Ian Mr. McCarthy, Gabriel Mr. Sensenbrenner, Justin Zulu, Susana Ms. Almuina ...
    This book, edited by J.B. Zulu, Ian S. McCarthy, Susana Almuiña, and Gabriel Sensenbrenner, presents the proceedings of the special Joint Meetings on Central Banking Technical Assistance held in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1994, and provides detailed information on important issues in central banking, including a comparative sample of 31 countries. The arrangements concerning such issues as the size ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Development Without Aid

    The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora

    by David A. Phillips ...
    “Development Without Aid” opens up perspectives and analyzes facts about foreign aid to the poorest developing countries. The discussion is advocacy as much as analysis, and makes extensive reference to recent research, including the author’s previous work on the World Bank.Starting from a perception about development formed during the author’s formative years in what is now Malawi, the book ... Read more

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