Makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of the early maritime trade in the northern Pacific in general, & in the Bering Strait area in particular.

This pathbreaking study examines foundations' democracy assistance programs in Central Europe in the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin Wall, both measuring their size and evaluating their strategies.

Expertly practised by insiders but often hidden from outsiders, informal practices are, as this book shows, deeply rooted all over the world, yet underestimated in policy.

This volume includes chapters on the consequences of changes in both physical and digital connectivity for trade, for the location of economic activity, for forms of doing business, the growth of e-commerce in particular, and for the ...

This is a pressing question for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)--and the developing world more broadly--as countries seek to build human capital to drive sustainable growth.

With contributions from 35 leading economists, this forward-looking book explores the future of development economics against the background of the past half-century of development thought and practice.

This book examines these aspects of the post-reform scene, discerning the changes in trends which the new developments have created.

This guide helps investors navigate through the web of industrial parks, economic and technological development zones, high-tech parks, Free Trade Zones, and export-processing zones in China, and is tailored for would-be investors trying to ...

Covers: whether foreign-controlled companies might have underpaid U.S. income taxes by improperly using transfer pricing; what factors, if any, affected the IRS1 ability to determine and recover any potentially underpaid taxes; and what ...

An examination of recent trends and shifts in trade policies, this study looks at the seemingly contradictory movements toward regionalism and integration.