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Progress in Public Manag...
Case Studies on Policy Reform
The MENA-OECD Governance Programme supports public sector reform in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. Since its inception in 2003, the programme has helped the region to improve institutions for good governance through continuous policy review and reform. The n...
(2010)
687 Reads
Madmen and Other Survivors
Reading Lu Xun's Fiction
The tremendous success of China's program of economic reform and the rapid integration of China into the global economy have prompted this study on the economic and financial integration between mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan – a grouping sometimes referred to as Greate...
(2007)
442 Reads
Developing Countries and...
by Gary P. Sampson and W. Bradnee C...
It is widely accepted that a well-functioning global trading system is a prerequisite for trade promotion and the development of developing countries. However, it is equally well recognised that the trading system has not worked to the advantage of many developing countries. I...
(2008)
152 Reads
Tackling Inequalities in...
The Role of Labour Market and Social Policies
Greater integration into the world economy and important policy reforms have resulted in Brazil, China, India and South Africa becoming major actors in the globalisation process, with impressive results in terms of economic growth, social development and poverty reduction. Bu...
(2010)
150 Reads
The World Economy
Volume 1: A Millennial Perspective and Volume 2: Historical Statistics
The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, first published in 2001 and The World Economy: Historical Statistics, published in 2003. This new edition contains Statlinks, a service providing access to the...
(2006)
82 Reads
Do They Walk on Water?
Federal Reserve Chairmen and the Fed
A crowd gathers. People crane their necks. Cameras flash. The limo door opens. Who is it—Mick Jagger? Oprah? Tiger Woods? No. It's Alan Greenspan—and the crowd still goes wild. Many felt Greenspan walked on water during his lengthy term as Chairman of the...
(2009)
20 Reads
Measuring Vulnerability ...
Towards Disaster Resilient Societies
A seemingly non-stop series of disasters has shown that societies worldwide seem unprepared for the threats posed by natural hazards: Hurricane Katrina, drought in Africa; flooding in China and Germany; earthquakes in Pakistan and India; a tsunami in South-East Asia; and fores...
(2006)
27 Reads
The Power of Supply and ...
Thinking Tools and Case Studies for Students and Professionals
Key Points 1. An effective guide to the economics of property rights; 2. An overview of the power of economic analysis and its foundations; 3. A companion for business and development practitioners; 4. A set of tools for meaningful discussion of government policies and law; 5....
(2010)
17 Reads
North American Homeland ...
Back to Bilateralism?
by Imtiaz Hussain, Satya R. Pat..., and Anil Hira
Did 9/11 revive a North American guns-butter trade-off? Established in the largest administrative overhaul since World War II, the Department of Homeland Security was charged with keeping the United States safe within a wider security community, but confronted the Wa...
(2009)
15 Reads
The Canton Trade
Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845
This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people. This account of the rice cooker's globalization aims to move away from Japan-centric perspectives on how "Made in Japan" products made it big in...
(2009)
13 Reads
Sector Specific Sources ...
Recommendation for a Regional Investment Strategy
The Western Balkan region benefits from a cost-competitive labour force and geographic and cultural proximity to EU markets. However, cost competitiveness as a source of differentiation is not sustainable. Cost levels are increasing gradually in some sectors, reducing firms’ p...
(2009)
9 Reads
Above The City
Hiking Hong Kong Island
by Alicia M. Ke... and Ginger Thrash
This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people. This account of the rice cooker's globalization aims to move away from Japan-centric perspectives on how "Made in Japan" products made it big in...
(2005)
9 Reads
Fighting Bribery in Publ...
Asian-Pacific countries have made significant efforts to address weaknesses in their procurement frameworks and practices. To support these efforts and to assist the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative’s 28 member countries in strengthening their public-procurement mechanisms,...
(2008)
8 Reads
Revolutionary Aristoteli...
Ethics, Resistance and Utopia
This book includes revisions of papers originally presented at the inaugural conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean Philosophy, on the theme of Alasdair MacIntyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism: Ethics, Resistance and Utopia, hosted by the Human Rights and So...
(2008)
7 Reads
Asia and Africa in the G...
by Ernest Aryeetey, Julius Court, Machiko Niss..., and Beatrice Weder
The book brings a crucial issue to the fore: how to manage the process of strategic integration into the global economy. The performance of Asian and African economies over recent decades clearly shows that engagement with the global economy can play a key role in advancing de...
(2003)
12 Reads
The Visible Hand of Chin...
Latin America is looking towards China and Asia -- and China and Asia are looking right back. This is a major shift: for the first time in its history, Latin America can benefit from not one but three major engines of world growth. Until the 1980s, the United States was the re...
(2007)
12 Reads
Making Reforms Succeed
Moving Forward with the MENA Investment Policy Agenda
This publication highlights key outcomes of the work of the MENA-OECD Investment Programme from 2005-2007, including reforms achieved to date in investment policies and promotion, corporate governance, financial-sector development, and tax policies. It also contains informatio...
(2008)
No Reads
OECD Economics Glossary
English-French
This updated and expanded edition of the 1992 Glossaire de l’économie anglais-français contains some 30000 terms and expressions, covering a wide range of subject areas: general economics, statistics, finance and banking, trade, management, accounting, insurance, manpower and ...
(2006)
1 Read
The Ladder of Competitiv...
How to Climb it
Tables of national competitiveness give an easily comparable ranking of the winners and losers of global economic competition. But they don't explain why the “poor” countries are four times less productive than the “rich” ones or why some rich countries are twice as productive...
(2006)
No Reads
The Rise of China and In...
This book demonstrates how the growing economic power of China and India is already influencing the growth patterns of African countries, particularly oil- and commodities-exporting ones. As world prices for commodities rise, producer countries in Africa and throughout the wor...
(2006)
4 Reads
