Analyses who is poor, where they live, and why they are poor. Adopts microeconomic, sector and macroeconomic policies to address the changes during the last decade or so. Includes eleven country experiences, with conclusions about the future policy agenda and challenges.
Les fonds souverains, fonds d'investissement gouvernementaux dotés de plusieurs milliers de milliards de liquidités, peuvent financer les banques et les entreprises, mais aussi déstabiliser le système financier et servir les intérêts des Etats qui les contrôlent. Ils sont de plu…
"For all their spectacular growth, China and India must still lift a hundred million citizens out of poverty and create jobs for numerous laborers. Both powers hope trade and investment will sustain national unity. For the first time, Jonathan Holslag identifies these objectives…
This book argues that China succeeded in moving from a Maoist command economy to a market economy because government failed to prevent local officials from forcing prices to market levels. The 'resource wars' that resulted from partial price reform in the early 1980s cleared the…
From multi-billion dollar investments in oil and minerals to the influx of thousands of merchants, labourers and cheap consumer goods, China's economic and political reach is redefining Africa's traditional ties with the international community. This text investigates the emergi…
China in Africa
by International African Institute, Royal African Society, Alden, Chris
Nowhere in the world is China?s rapid rise to power more evident than in Africa. From multi-billion dollar investments in oil and minerals to the influx of thousands of merchants, labourers and cheap consumer goods, China?s economic and political reach is redefining Africa?s tra…
"Presents selections of works of Yu Keping, a Chinese intellectual and figure in official think tanks, on politics and democracy that reveal the ongoing debates in Chinese political and intellectual circles on democratic reform and where China's political development is heading"…
"Presents selections of works of Yu Keping, a Chinese intellectual and figure in official think tanks, on politics and democracy that reveal the ongoing debates in Chinese political and intellectual circles on democratic reform and where China's political development is heading"…
Analysis of recent political problems in China - comprises an appraisal of the cultural revolution from 3 points of view, (1) as an episode in the long history of china, (2) as a stage in the development of communist ideas and methods, and (3) as an attempt to solve certain fund…
Par une équipe d'historiens, un bilan, par continent ou par pays, des méfaits commis sous l'enseigne communiste : lieux, dates, faits, bourreaux, victimes, lesquelles se comptent par millions.
This title explores the great opportunities and challenges which exist in conducting clinical trials in developing countries. -- Source autre que la Library of Congress.