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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kaoru sugihara”
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  • Japan and the Contemporary Middle East

    Edited by J. A. Allan, Kaoru Sugihara ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    Japan is an economic power of global significance; it is also the world's largest single national importer of oil. These two facts alone are sufficient to indicate the significance of Japan's relationship with the Middle East. But in fact, Japan's particularly strong interests in the Middle East extend well beyond oil, and include banking, investment, and an increasing concern with economic ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India

    Japanese Perspectives

    by Peter Robb, Kaoru Sugihara, Haruka Yanagisawa ...
    The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

    Edited by Gareth Austin, Kaoru Sugihara ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed. Labour was often equated with other factors of production, and assigned a relatively passive role. Yet it was labour absorption and the improvement of the quality of labour over the course of several centuries that underscored the timing, pace and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa

    Edited by Keijiro Otsuka, Kaoru Sugihara ...
    Series series Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license.This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under ... Read more

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    by Dev Nathan, D Narasimha Reddy, Govind Kelkar ...
    This study challenges the dominant tendency of civil society to negate international trade as such. The authors argue that it is necessary to frame differentiated trade rules based on levels of economic development, and also to shift from subsidies to shore up uncompetitive livelihoods to productivity-enhancing investments.Most importantly, the book ends with a case for trade unions, women's ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of Neoliberalism

    by David Harvey ...
    Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are ... Read more

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  • How Asia Works

    Success and Failure In the World's Most Dynamic Region

    by Joe Studwell ...
    "A good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed." —Bill Gates, "Top 5 Books of the Year"An Economist Best Book of the Year from a reporter who has spent two decades in the region, and who the Financial Times said "should be named chief myth-buster for Asian business."In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills his extensive research ... Read more

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  • Gambling on Development

    Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose

    by Stefan Dercon ...
    In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed? Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • Institutional Change in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Fredrik Sjöholm, José Tongzon ...
    Series series European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series
    This book examines the institutional changes taking place in, and challenges facing, the region since 1997. It also describes various differences in the reform process between countries in the region. Sjöholm and Tongzon argue that the economies of southeast Asia need to reform their institutions if the previous rapid development is to continue. The institutional weaknesses have been addressed to ... Read more

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  • The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa

    Money, War and the Business of Power

    by Alex de Waal ...
    The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and insurgents bargain over money and power, and use of war to achieve their goals.Drawing on a thirty-year career in Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, including experience as a participant in high ... Read more

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  • Uncle Sam and Us

    Globalization, Neoconservatism, and the Canadian State

    by Stephen Clarkson ...
    Between them, Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien radically altered the structure and functions of the federal government, first by signing and implementing major trade liberalization projects, and then by cutting back the size of their governments' budgets and the scope of their policies. Uncle Sam and Us analyzes the Mulroney-Chrétien era's impact on Canadian governance through two related factors, ... Read more

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  • The Fall and Rise of Telangana

    by Gautam Pingle ...
    Post Independence, the state of Andhra Pradesh was created by merging the Telangana region, a part of the princely state of Hyderabad, with the coastal region of Andhra and Rayalaseema—both parts of the erstwhile Madras state. With Madras, the major source of income of the state, allocated to Tamil Nadu, it was necessary to include the revenue-surplus Telangana to create a financially viable ... Read more

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