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Examines Japan's current policies of increasing dialogue with and encouraging Japanese business activities in the newly independent states of Central Asia and Caucasia, announced by Prime Minister Hashimoto on July 14, 1997; includes Japan's interest in access to Central Asia's oil and development of closer relations with China and Russia.

Over the last decade, the United States' position as the world's most powerful state has appeared increasingly unstable. The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, non-traditional security threats, global economic instability, the apparent spread of authoritarianism and illiberal politics, together with the rise of emerging powers from the Global South have led many to predict the end of Western dominance on the global stage. This book brings together scholars from international relations, economics, history, sociology and area studies to debate the future of US leadership in the international system. The bookanalyses the past, present and future of US hegemony in key regionsin the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, Europe and Africa- while also examining the dynamic interactions of US hegemony with other established, rising and re-emerging powers such as Russia, China, Japan, India, Turkey and South Africa. American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers explores how changes in the patterns of cooperation and conflict among states, regional actors and transnational non-state actors have affected the rise of emerging global powers and the suggested decline of US leadership. Scholars, students and policy practitioners who are interested in the future of the US-led international system, the rise of emerging powers from the Global South and related global policy challenges will find this multidisciplinary volume an invaluable guide to the shifting position of American hegemony.

West Java Province claims to have realized investment in line with the Industry 4.0 policy. This claim is based on gross added value in the five leading sectors of the processing industry, which had the highest percentage among other areas. On the other hand, one of the goals of development is to achieve economic improvement. Many previous studies have examined the effect of investment realization on economic growth. Still, very few have specifically considered the recognition of investment specifically in the leading sectors of the Industry 4.0. West Java, as one of the best investment destination provinces with the suitability of a manufacturing roadmap set by the central government, is expected to have a good economic improvement. So this study aims to prove the effect of investment realization on economic improvement in all regencies/cities in West Java empirically.The design of this study is causal research using a simple linear regression analysis method. The sampling technique used was purposive, namely 27 regencies/cities in West Java. Secondary data sources are documents from the Board of Investment and Integrated Licensing (BPMPT), the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM), and the West Java Central Board of Statistics (BPS). The indicators used for investment realization variables are the total investment value and labor absorption. While the indicators for economic growth variables are the Expenditure Index, Human Development Index (HDI), and Per Capita Expenditure (PPP).The results of the study showed that there were positive and significant effects of the investment realization variable on the economic growth variable for all the models tested. This finding supports the theory, which stated that the suitability of the investment roadmap would further enhance economic growth. However, there are differences in the determination coefficients and the correlation coefficients. Correlation coefficients between investment value and labor absorption in 5 sectors with HDI scores at the provincial level showed a very strong relationship. While the correlation coefficients of the linear regression model from various models tested to measure the effect of investment realization on economic growth in the Regencies/Cities in West Java showed weak correlation. This research shows that the proposed model still needs to be finalized with other variables, including industrial performance, investment return, tax effectiveness, and government governance

Актуальность данной статьи заключается в том, что в последние годы роль регионального управления в системе государственного управления всей страны значительно выросла. Проведен анализ текущего механизма регионального управления, а также механизмов межрегионального взаимодействия на примере Центрального федерального округа Российской Федерации. Также дана оценка значимости межтерриториального экономического взаимодействия как крайне важному потенциальному ресурсу для экономического роста всей страны и увеличения благосостояния граждан. Авторами оценивается экономический потенциал данного округа с точки зрения стратегического межрегионального управления и долгосрочного планирования. В статье рассматривается инструмент межрегионального взаимодействия ассоциация, как особая интеграционная экономическая платформа, представляющая собой комплексную систему межтерриториального экономического взаимодействия как самих регионов в целом, так и отдельных отраслей экономики этих регионов, направленных на долгосрочную перспективу эффективного управления и устойчивого развития территорий. В ходе изучения данной темы выявлены основные проблемы в функционировании регионов, проанализированы основные статистические показатели, которые характеризуют их экономические системы. Результаты исследования расширяют знания о методическом потенциале инструментария интеграционных форм в укреплении экономических отношений между субъектами РФ и их устойчивом развитии. ; The relevance of this article concludes in the fact that in recent years the role of regional government in the system of public administration of the whole country has considerably grown. The current mechanism of regional government as well as the mechanisms of interregional interaction by the example of Central Federal District of the Russian Federation is analyzed. The assessment of the importance of interterritorial economic interaction as an extremely important potential resource for economic growth of the whole country and increase in welfare of citizens is provided as well. The authors estimate an economic capacity of this district from the view of strategic interregional management and long-term planning. The instrument of interregional interaction association as a special integration economic platform which represents a complex system of interterritorial economic interaction both between the regions as a whole and between single economic branches of these regions directed on the long-term prospect of effective management and sustainable development of the territories is considered in the article. While studying this subject the main problems in functioning of regions are revealed; the main statistic indicators, which characterize their economic systems, are analyzed. The results of the research expand knowledge of methodical potential of tools of integration forms in strengthening of economic relations between territorial subjects of the Russian Federation and their sustainable development.

In recent years, economic globalization is being further deepened, International trade has become an important component of the financial progress of all countries. The terms of trade is an important measure of a country's trade interests in the international market. Both sides attach great importance to maintaining bilateral cooperative partnership. China's traditional comparative advantages have not completely changed, but with the increase of capital stock and the improvement of technology level, high-skilled labor has gradually emerged in Sino-EUropean trade, This will promote the further development of both sides. Since 2008, The China-EU partnership has undergone new changes. At that time, the problems of the economic crisis had pushed the world economy close to or into recession. The world market is shrinking sharply, consumption is sluggish, and China-EU economic and trade patterns will also face new changes. China is one of the developing countries, the economic and trade cooperation with the EU has achieved the strategic goal of long-term development and win-win cooperation, and it has become of global strategic significance. China and the EU are embarking on a new period of structural adjustment in their relations. Due to the accelerated changes in the power balance, the different policy orientations of each and the influence of the external environment, China and the EU have undergone major adjustments in their mutual understanding and policies. The comprehensiveness and initiative of China's European policy have been strengthened, the economic and trade structure has become more balanced, and cooperation in new areas has been expanded. The structural changes in China-EU relations are long-term, gradual and cumulative processes. Both sides need to carefully handle strategic, political mutual trust, and economic and trade friction issues, and deal with various impacts brought about by the external environment. Although China and the EU still have many differences in the political and economic fields, but in the long run, China-EU economic and trade relations are moving forward in a positive direction. China and the EU are each starting a new reform agenda. Based on effective management and control of differences, by expanding the convergence of mutual interests and creating growth points for regional cooperation, the two sides can better adapt to and jointly shape the prospect of structural changes. ; Facultad de Ciencias de la Empresa ; Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena

Civil Society in the Middle East is a project of the Department of Politics and the Koverkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University. Project director is Augustus Richard Norton (Boston University). While there is wide disagreement about the outcome among those who follow events in the Middle East, there is little doubt that the regimes in the region are under increasing pressure from their citizens. In rich and poor states alike, incipient movements of men and women are demanding a voice in politics. Recent political developments in Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, even the future state of Palestine, clearly show the vitality and dynamism of civil society, the melange of associations, clubs, guilds, syndicates, federations, unions, parties and groups which provide a buffer between state and citizen and which are now so clearly at the forefront of political liberalization in the region. Civil Society in the Middle East , a two-volume set of papers providing an unusually detailed and rich assessment of contemporary politics within the Middle East, and in this sense alone, quite literally peerless, is the result of a project of the Department of Politics and the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. Volume I contains contributions by Augustus Richard Norton, Raymond A. Hinnebusch, Laurie Brand, Muhammad Muslih, Mustafa Kamil al-Sayyid, Ghanim al Najjar and Neil Hicks, Eva Bellin, Jill Crystal, Saad al-Din Ibrahim, and Alan Richards

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE WELFARE STATE. WHICH HAS EMERGED AS THE SUCCESSFUL RESPONSE OF CAPITALIST DEMOCRACIES TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS OF THE NINETEEN-THIRTIES, IS NOW CONFRONTED WITH NEW PROBLEMS ANDDEMANDS WHICH SEEM TO CHALLANGE ITS CONTINUING VIABILITY.

Introduction / Govind Kelkar and Maithreyi Krishnaraj -- Part I. Land rights for the farming women in Asia: 1. Policy formulation, law reform and women's property rights in South Asia / Savitri Goonesekere -- 2. Gender asset gaps and land rights in the context of the Asia-Pacific region / Rajini Menon and Preet Rustagi -- 3. Gender and productive assets: implications for women's economic security and productivity / Govind Kelkar -- Part II: 4. Women's ownership rights and access to land in Bangladesh / Sadeka Halim -- 5. Women's land rights in China: an unpromising future / Wang Yunxian -- 6. Gender and productive resources: Nepal's case of landownership / Ganesh Gurung -- 7. Women's land use knowledge and entitlement in Swidden agriculture / Govind Kelkar and Lily Wangchuk -- 8. Rules and norms in women's access to productive resources: ponds in Bangladesh / Dev Nathan and Rownok Jahan -- 9. Gender and livestock in Nagaland / Rosemary Dzuvichu -- 10. Mal Chhe to Mobho Chhe: livestock is dignity for us / Lalji Desai -- Part III. Women's entitlement to land and productive assets in India: 11. The status of indigenous women and land rights in Jharkhand / Samar Bosu Mullick -- 12. Land, livestock and the rights of women in rural India / N.C. Saxena -- 13. Women's entitlement to land and livestock in matrilineal Meghalay / Patricia Mukhim -- 14. Changing context of women's entitlement to land in Gujarat / Meera Velayudhan -- 15. Women's landownership in Gujarat: what has worked and what needs to be looked at! / Sejal Dave -- 16. Women and land rights in Maharashtra / Seema Kulkarni -- 17. Resistance and struggle for survival: access, control and ownership of poor and Dalit women to land in Andhra Pradesh / V. Rukmini Rao -- 18. Women's entitlements to land: grassroots strategies for legitimising claims / Nitya Rao

Проанализирована реализация программы «Развитие сельского хозяйства и регулирование рынков сельскохозяйственной продукции, сырья и продовольствия на 2013-2020 годы» в республике Дагестан в 2013 году. Выявлены основные приоритеты и причины невыполнения отдельных подпрограмм развития отрасли. В связи с экономическими санкциями ЕС и США в отношении РФ изучен опыт Китая по проведению политики импортозамещения, акцентировано внимание на выработке оптимального механизма государственных закупок. ; The paper analyzes the implementation of the "Agriculture Development and Regulation of Markets of Agricultural Production, Raw Materials and Food Program 2013 2020" in the Republic of Dagestan in 2013. It identifies the main priorities of industry development sub-programs and causes of their nonfulfillment. In connection with the economic sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation by the EU and the USA, it studies the Chinese experience in carrying out the import substitution policy with the emphasis on the development of the optimum mechanism of government procurements.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to discuss the idea that governments should not take policy measures for the development and growth of National Health System (NHS) without taking into account their financial sustainability. Design/methodology/approach: This article is based on a review of existing theories, documents and statistics. findings: This article analyses the major developments in public health policy in Portugal between 1970 and 2012. It presents the measures that established the National Health Service (NHS) in 1976, signalling the start of an expansionary health policy that led to quality health care provision, but at the cost of very high spending. From 1990, governments have focussed on reducing public expenditure on health, due to growth-rates in this area outstripping increases in GDP. Paradoxically, despite this position, in practice, all the governments have increased the amount of infrastructure supporting the NHS, which in turn has been funded through public debt. This debt was extended in all areas of public administration and became unsustainable, obliging the Portuguese government to ask the European Commission for financial assistance in 2011. Due to the austerity measures imposed by lenders, for the first time since the creation of the NHS, there was a real reduction of public expenditure on health in 2011 and 2012. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

This collection is a speech given by Raymond Nakai to other Indian Leaders at the National Conference on Manpower Programs for Indians. He notes that the standard of living for Indian people is elevated by job opportunity. Mr. Nakai encourages greater job development so that American Indians can be viewed as important creative citizens in America. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Raymond Nakai, a Navajo Indian, was born in 1918 in Lukachukai, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. Raymond Nakai is noted as being the first modern Navajo political leader serving as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963-1971. As chairman, the issues most important during his tenure were self determination in Navajo Education, reservation unemployment, developing Navajo economy, further development of the tribal government and improving relations with the federal government and surrounding states. Nakai had much unprecedented success as Navajo Tribal Chairman: In 1967 the Navajo Nation Bill of Rights was created, in 1968 Navajo Community College opened being the first tribally controlled community college, the Tribal Scholarship Trust was developed, relations with off reservation natural resource companies began, he was supportive of religious freedom of the Native American Church on the Navajo Reservation. Raymond Nakai led an active personal and political life and was an innovative leader for the Navajo People. The Raymond Nakai Collection contains material documenting his activities as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963 - 1971.

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This book, addressed to the business and academic communities, has been written in response to widespread international awareness that the future is highly unpredictable. For example, daily developments around Brexit and the Trump presidency are creating a climate of uncertainty. Based on case studies, the authors attempt to provide a context to help cope with unstable times.

The wide spread of mobile phones to many actors of aquaculture value chain have brought a new opportunity for enhancing access to aquaculture advisory and extension service in developing countries. Despite the potential shown by mobile phones in provision of other social economic services to both rural and urban communities, there are few studies presented how these tools facilitate access to aquaculture extension service among aquaculture farmers in the country, Tanzania. This article assesses how mobile phones can facilitate the provision of aquaculture extension service among aquaculture farmers in Tanzania. The article establishes an understanding on how aquaculture extension service is provided to aquaculture farmers through mobile phones using UshauriKilimo. UshauriKilimo is an agro-advisory and extension system which is now in use for more than two years. The article contributes to the existing body of knowledge with respect to ICT mediated aquaculture extension.