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Key Features:First book to offer a comprehensive view of the future outlook of Asian economies from such a wide range of different perspectivesProvides projections of which countries will reach millennium development objectives and which ones will fail, and whyDetails the emerging threat to global warming from India and China.

A property-rights, market-oriented approach to the problems of ozone depletion, global warming, and other worldwide environmental issues.

This Element examines how the changing economic basis of parliamentary elections in nineteenth century England and Wales contributed to the development of modern parties and elections. Even after the 1832 Reform Act expanded the British electorate, elections in many constituencies went uncontested, party labels were nominal, and candidates spent large sums treating and bribing voters. By the end of the century, however, almost every constituency was contested, candidates stood as representatives of national parties, and campaigns were fought on the basis of policies. We show how industrialization, the spread of literacy, and the rise of cheap newspapers, encouraged candidates to enter and contest constituencies. The increased expense that came from fighting frequent elections in larger constituencies induced co-partisan candidates to form slates. This imparted a uniform partisan character to parliamentary elections that facilitated the emergence of programmatic political parties.

The possible indebtedness of political economy to fourth-century Greek thinkers has been widely debated; the contribution of Islam, on the other hand, is consistently forgotten. This volume addresses this neglect by examining in three parts the following questions: Is there a school of economic thought that can be considered specifically 'Arab', or have the Arabs succeeded in combining the Greek heritage with other, more oriental currents? Muslim economic thought has enriched the Hellenic contribution to economic thought in the areas of government of the kingdom by the caliph, of the city and the household organisation; the Arab concept of tadbîr should be examined in relation to each of these three levels. In rejecting profit, usury, egoism and monopoly, and in preaching moderation, altruism, the practice of fair prices, and unselfishness, Islam inaugurated an 'economic system' which has derived from that of the Greeks and which laid the basis for pre-capitalist thought

Includes bibliographical references ; This thesis aims to compare BEE with the economic empowerment strategies of Afrikaner nationalism in order to root discussion around Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment within a context of economic nationalism. This approach avoids narrow critiques of BEE as affirmative action and provides a fresh historical perspective to the ANC's efforts at transformation and redress. The comparison allows for insight to the different levels of success achieved by the economic nationalist strategies of Afrikaner empowerment and Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment. This thesis explores micro-studies to illustrate the complex issues raised by empowerment policies of Afrikaner (post 1924) and African nationalism (post 1994). In particular this serves to offer an alternative perspective the more common broad political approaches to BEE and highlights the policy's effect at a micro-level.

University-industry links : policy dimensions Shahid Yusuf -- Pt.1. UIL-related policies of national governments -- Notes on UIL-related policies of national governments Luc Soete -- University-industry knowledge transfer in Switzerland Dominique Foray -- University-industry links and U.K. science and innovation policy Alan Hughes -- Universities and public research institutions as drivers of economic development in Asia John A. Mathews and Mei-Chih Hu -- UIL-related policies of national governments : a synthetic view Rémi Barré -- Pt.2. UIL-related policies of subnational governments -- The role of higher education and new forms of governance in economic development : the Ontario case David A. Wolfe -- University-industry links in the Japanese context : between policies and practice Juan Jiang, Yuko Harayama, and Shiro Abe -- University-industry links : regional policies and initiatives in the United Kingdom Mike Wright -- University-industry research collaboration and technology transfer in the United States since 1980 David C. Mowery -- Pt.3. UIL-related policies of universities -- Building research universities for knowledge transfer : the case of China Weiping Wu -- Approaches to university-industry links : the case of the National University of Singapore Poh-Kam Wong -- University-industry links and enterprise creation in India : some strategic and policy issues Rakesh Basant and Pankaj Chandra -- The entrepreneurial university : the idea and its critics Elizabeth Garnsey -- Pt.4. Corporate strategies of multinational corporations and small and medium enterprises -- Beyond absorptive capacity : the management of technology for a proactive corporate strategy toward university-industry links Fumio Kodama, Shingo Kano, and Jun Suzuki -- Corporate strategies in university-industry links in France Jean-Jacques Duby -- Specific approaches to university-industry links of selected companies in Thailand and their relative effectiveness Peter Brimble