Causes of discontent -- The costs and benefits of restricting immigration -- Is America's immigration system broken? -- From global to local : towards integration or exclusion? -- The balance sheet : economic costs and benefits of immigration -- Refugees and discontent -- Crime,…
Immigration is shaking up electoral politics around the world. In this book, economist Neeraj Kaushal investigates this rising anxiety and tests common complaints against immigration. She finds that immigration, on balance, is beneficial. It is neither the volume nor pace of imm…
Machine generated contents note: -- Glossary -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Europe Ends up Some Place Else -- Chapter 1: Three Leaps in the Dark, 1950-1982 -- Chapter 2: Kohl's Euro, 1982-1998 -- Chapter 3: Schröder Asserts the German National Interest, 1999-2003 -- Chapter …
"The promise of the European pursuit of ever closer union created tremendous optimism that conflict was the past and harmony would be the future. The enthusiasm for economic integration and monetary union, through the Euro, enhanced the confidence that differences among countrie…
While it is possible for economies to grow based on abundant land or natural resources, more often structural change-the shift of resources from low-productivity to high-productivity sectors-is the key driver of economic growth. Structural transformation is vital for Africa. The…
While it is possible for economies to grow based on abundant land or natural resources, more often structural change-the shift of resources from low-productivity to high-productivity sectors-is the key driver of economic growth. Structural transformation is vital for Africa. The…
This ambitious volume provides a trenchant and timely analysis of the creation of a single market in both the EU and the US. Comparing the experience of the US during the nineteenth century and the single market of the EU in the twentieth century, Single Markets demonstrates how…
Introduction / Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Khairuddin Abdul Rashid, William P. Anderson and Masahiko Furuichi -- Regional development of ASEAN from a broad perspective -- Asean integration : opportunities and challenges / Koji Sakane and JICA Study Team -- The role of ADB in ASEAN integr…
This volume is a collection of papers that apply general equilibrium theory in order to obtain policy relevant insights on topical issues of international trade and migration. The first set of papers focuses on European integration, applying dynamic numerical general equilibrium…
"Much has been written about the trilateral relationship between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and the free trade agreements that this relationship has spawned. In Making North America, James Thompson uses the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement of 1988 and the North America…
In Making North America, James Thompson uses the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement of 1988 and the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994 to demonstrate that there has been an often-unrecognized impulse behind the process of North American integration - national security.
