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Reforming opic for the 21st century
What is the role of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in relation to private sector political risk insurers and financial institutions supporting the flow of foreign direct investment to emerging markets? This study provides an assessment of OPIC's various missions as a promoter of deve...
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Faces of contemporary management
The faces of contemporary management relate to a vast range of methods directed at ensuring effectiveness in the functioning of organizations. This book discusses current research trends in management science in human resource management, corporate social responsibility, and contemporary manageme...
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Hong kong taxation
Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice 2005-06 is a professional book on Hong Kong tax system. It explains in detail the taxes under the Inland Revenue Ordinance—Property Tax, Salaries Tax and Profits Tax. Two chapters covering Stamp Duty and Estate Duty are included
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In china's wake
Nicholas Jepson shows how Chinese demand not only transformed commodity markets but also provided resource-rich states with the financial leeway to set their own policy agendas. He combines analysis of China-led structural change with fine-grained detail on how the boom played out across fifteen ...
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Global warming and the world trading system
In 2006, a team led by the English economist Sir Nicholas Stern issued a striking report that analyzed the economic dimensions of global climate change and called for immediate collective action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This seminal report poses the critical question of how much ...
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Sistemas del impuesto predial en américa latina y el caribe
This Spanish-language book consolidates a decade's worth of data on fiscal and tax management decisions in 200 jurisdictions across nine Latin American and Caribbean countries. By highlighting advances, lessons learned, and legal, juridical, and technical obstacles that must be addressed, it prov...
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Cooperating with europe's monetary union
Europe's monetary union will represent the most profound transformation of the international monetary system since the transition from fixed to flexible exchange rates in the early 1970s. It will compete with the erosion of American dominance and the dramatic increase in capital mobility for the ...
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From microfinance to business planning
This groundbreaking book shows how innovative microfinance solutions can help billions to avoid 'poverty traps' and escape atavistic misery. While the success of microfinance has globally exceeded even the wildest expectations, there are still many obstacles – above all the lack of proper busines...
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Real exchange rates for the year 2000
Countries that entered the European Monetary Union had to do so at exchange rates that are close to equilibrium levels. So when are exchange rates at equilibrium levels? Real Exchange Rates for the Year 2000 discusses the fundamental equilibrium exchange rate (FEER) method and estimates FEERS for...
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Trans-pacific partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate about the role of trade in the United States in a generation. The TPP is one of the broadest and most progressive free trade agreements since the North American Free Trade Agreem...
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The bloomberg guide to business journalism
The Bloomberg Guide to Business Journalism provides students and professionals with the essential tools for reporting on companies, industries, financial markets, economies, banks, and government policies anywhere in the world.
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The property tax-school funding dilemma
This report seeks to correct common misconceptions surrounding the practice of relying on the property tax to fund public schools. Through a comprehensive review of research and seven case studies, it offers recommendations that policy makers can use both to provide significant property tax relie...
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The international financial architecture
Shortly after the Mexican crisis of 1994-95, the major industrial countries undertook to strengthen the international financial architecture. They sought to reduce the risk of future crises by increasing the availability of information about economic conditions in emerging-market countries and st...
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The economics of global warming
This study examines the costs and benefits of an aggressive program of global action to limit greenhouse warming. An initial chapter summarizes the scientific issues from the standpoint of an economist. The analysis places heavy emphasis on efforts over a long run of 200 to 300 years, with much g...
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Management fundamentals
This book is a succinct handbook of the essentials of management for current and future practitioners. Leadership experts Steven Cohen and William Eimicke concisely explain management best practices, aiming to equip managers with the tools of the trade and prepare them to tackle decision making.
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Global economic effects of the asian currency devaluations
The Asian financial crisis has precipitated significant changes in real exchange rates in the region that will substantially alter the volume and pattern of international trade. The crisis countries will increase their exports and, especially, reduce their imports. Japan, China, and the other non...
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Smarter new york city
This book explains how innovation from within city agencies and administrations makes urban systems smarter and shapes life in New York City. With case studies challenge the tech-centric view of innovation, Smarter New York City brings together a multidisciplinary and integrated perspective to im...
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Corruption and the global economy
The recently-adopted OECD convention outlawing bribery of foreign public officials is welcome evidence of how much progress has been made in the battle against corruption. The financial crisis in East Asia is an indication of how much remains to be done. Corruption is by no means a new issue but ...
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