Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

Analyzes the rivers dictated by a number of treaty observations. Examining several hypotheses, this book devises general conclusions about the manner in which states resolve their water disputes. It focusses on negotiated agreements, and their embodied side-payment and cost-sharing regimes, that justifies the use of independent variables.

Bringing together contributions from experts in trade policy, this work discusses and evaluates economic integration in the Western Hemisphere, the alternative trade strategies being pursued in this area and Latin American relationships with United States and Canada. It is of interest to those engaged with international trade and economic policy.

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book aims to look beyond the media rhetoric and provide a systematic analysis of women¿s everyday experiences of, and responses to gender discrimination in the Indian banking sector. The book shows that in the final analysis, gender inequality is the outcome of several cross-cutting factors, including local discourses on femininity, organisational structures, gendered organisational practices and institutional factors such as government laws.

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the changes and development of the civil international aircraft/aviation industry. It offers a fully up-to-date account of the international developments and structure in the aircraft and aviation industries from a number of perspectives, which include economic, geographical, political and technological points of view.

The subnational dimension of infrastructure has emerged as one of the greatest challenges in contemporary public finance policy and management. Ensuring the efficient provision of infrastructure represents a challenge for all countries irrespective of their level of centralization or decentralization. This book proposes an innovative approach for the strengthening of decentralized public investment and infrastructure management.

This book examines policies for the development of sustainable, low-carbon economies; the current status and remaining related issues of Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and other East Asian countries. The book also considers how the policies in the countries of this increasingly environmentally and economically interdependent region compare with those of the rest of the world. The book also evaluates the effect that each policy has on the legislating country and on other countries. In addition to quantitative effects, it also considers in detail the qualitative effects of such policies to discern trends in areas such as sustainable energy utilization, elimination or reduction of greenhouse gases, and the promotion of green growth.

In the past two decades, several millions of IT-enabled services jobs have been relocated or `offshored¿ from the US and Europe to, in particular, low cost economies around the world. Most of these jobs so far have landed in South and South-East Asia, with India and the Philippines receiving the bulk of them. This has caused profound changes in the international division of labour, and has had correspondingly wide social and economic effects.

This collection of essays by international lawyers and moral philosophers examines the legal, moral and political dimensions of free trade. It is an important text for experts across the fields of economics, politics, law and international trade.

Corruption is increasingly placed on top of the agenda of national governments and supra national institutions, such as the OECD, UN or the World Bank to name a few. A necessary condition for promoting sustainable economic growth is the pre-existence of a stable political system, able to control corruption. Corruption, however, is a very complex issue, associated with institutional and cultural specificities, personality traits related to individualistic values, and criminal personalities.

Respected international experts such as Michael Bordo, Larry Sjaastad and Ken Clements are brought together in a wonderfully well researched new book on this most important of topics.

This book aims to outline the nature and scale of the capacity building challenges facing countries in the Asia Pacific region. It analyses case studies from selected countries with an emphasis on rural development and programs that enhance opportunity and participation in the economy.

In nearly all OECD countries, the labour market has been in flux in recent decades. This book examines the labour markets and the institutional frameworks that condition their functioning in Canada, the United States, Denmark and Sweden.

Well-functioning labour markets are a precondition for economic development. Here leading researchers present an overview of labour market workings providing new theoretical and empirical insights.

This new book brings together an international group of contributors to present a timely and comprehensive analysis of FDI to and from Russia. The book assesses the impact of the changed international political situation on foreign firms operating in Russia, and explores how the new world context has affected Russian investments abroad. The book also considers the future relationship between Russian corporations and the EU and the USA in light of recent events.

This book presents cutting edge contributions in the fields of international economics, micro theory, welfare economics and econometrics, inspired by the work of economist John S. Chipman.

"Published in Chinese 2017 by Peking University Press"-- Title verso.

The book opens with an introduction to the current status of economic integration and factors that would affect the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and looks at key issues as well as region specific aspects of South Asia and South East Asia which would shape the regional economic architecture going forward.

This book is a collection of papers that provides deeper insight into the financial crises of the 1990's in Asia and Latin America and explores the possibilities for their solution.