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1."Made in China" No Longer Means Cheap -- 2.Pragmatic China -- 3.Multifaceted China -- 4.The Unwritten Contract -- 5.Why Chinese Students Go Abroad -- 6.One Billion Customers -- 7.The Chinese Online Tsunami -- 8.Made in China 2.0 and Beyond -- 9.Better Unhappy Rich than Poor -- 10.Qian´an: from zero to hero (and back) -- 11.China Goes Global -- 12.The Great Decoupling and a New Cold War.

The HICP is a consumer price index which was designed to provide measures of inflation in EU member states calculated using similar methods and thus comparable one with another. The HICP now tracks the inflation rates covering over 500 million Europeans, including the UK, and is also produced by other countries such as the USA. John Astin was the EU statistician in charge of the initial development of this important index and he has the best knowledge of how it was developed in the 1990s. This book is a history of the main development period of the HICP, up to the year 2002 when Astin left the European Commission. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers, not only in the UK but globally. Types of readers are likely to include: economists, economic statisticians, national statistics offices, universities, libraries, government finance/economic ministries, international organizations such as UN, ILO, OECD, EU, Eurostat, ECB, and central banks, as well as individuals who are interested in the construction of consumer price indices. This book begins by explaining the background to the HICP project, both from an economic and a political viewpoint, and describes the specific needs for harmonized price indices resulting from the Maastricht treaty of 1992. It analyses the process of establishing the necessary procedures for taking this urgent work forward and gives details of the technical issues involved, and the critical issue of drafting legal acts which would be necessary to ensure full compliance with the new rules. It includes analysis of products, price collection issues, quality adjustment, timing, and a host of other issues, and discusses the arguments which had to be resolved, as well as some human aspects of the process too. It also looks at the funding aspects, the recruitment of specialist consultants, the legal processes and the organization of meetings, both in Luxembourg and in other countries.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction to This Book -- Chapter 2: Definition, Current Issues and Areas for Improvement in Agricultural Supply Chains -- 2.1 Definition of Agricultural Supply Chain (ASC) -- 2.2 The Need for Value-Addition in ASC -- 2.3 Key Issues in Agricultural Supply Chains -- 2.4 Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: From Industry 4.0 to Agriculture 4.0 -- 3.1 The Evolution of Industry 4.0 -- 3.1.1 Definition of Industry 4.0 -- 3.1.2 The Evolution to Industry 4.0 -- 3.1.3 Technological Applications of Industry 4.0 -- 3.1.4 Big Data and Analytics -- 3.1.5 Autonomous Robots -- 3.1.6 Simulation -- 3.1.7 Horizontal and Vertical System Integration -- 3.1.8 The Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) -- 3.1.9 Cyber Security and Cyber Physical Systems -- 3.1.10 The Cloud -- 3.1.11 Additive Manufacturing -- 3.1.12 Augmented Reality -- 3.2 The Emergence of the Agriculture 4.0 Concept -- 3.2.1 Agriculture 4.0 -- 3.2.2 The Evolution of Agricultural 4.0 Technology -- 3.3 Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Technological Applications of Agricultural 4.0 Supply Chains -- 4.1 Smart Farming -- 4.2 Smart Devices and Platforms -- 4.3 IoT -- 4.4 Temperature Control Applications -- 4.5 Blockchain Applications -- 4.6 Tracking and Tracing Technologies -- 4.7 Autonomous Land Farming Robots -- 4.8 Autonomous Aerial Farming Robots -- 4.9 Smart Monitors -- 4.10 Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Data Sharing and the Transformation Agricultural 4.0 Supply Chain Operations -- 5.1 Data Sharing in Agriculture 4.0 -- 5.2 The Transformation of the Agricultural 4.0 Supply Chain Operations -- 5.2.1 Farmers Operations -- 5.2.2 Processors Operations -- 5.2.3 Distributors Operations -- 5.2.4 Retailers Operations -- 5.2.5 Consumers -- 5.3 Summary -- References.

This book offers a refreshing interdisciplinary perspective on an under-researched migrant minority: the French in London. Through a blended ethnographic lens, it provides insights into the complex lived experience of cross-Channel mobility and settlement processes in on-land and on-line settings.

Family offices are currently the most attractive group of investors and their structure is more permanent that many of the world's strongest companies. They are the next hedge funds of the world, if not more. The family office is at the backbone of global commerce, primarily from permanent capital, which results in a different system of management and investing, a hybrid that combines families directly investing in companies to diversify or to build current portfolios with customized returns on investment, vastly different investment goals and investment time frames. While "family office" is a new term for many in the industry, the basis and framework behind the family office has existed for more than 500 years. It is wildly important for this system of investing to be understood. In the past decade, billions in profits have been made in technology, let alone other industries, and most of these fortunes will find themselves managed by a family office of sorts. They are also competitors with one another and at times highly influential in the ways of wealth management, wealth creation and associated practices. This book offers a global snapshot of family offices, using case studies of family offices like the Rockefeller's "Room 5600" and covers important direct investment styles of family offices—all supported by hard research and statistics from intelligence partners covering family office investing extensively. It will be of interest to anyone in finance, wealth management, management consulting, market research and investing as a whole. Diving headfirst into the practice of family offices and family office structures, Global Family Office Investing covers the secretive world of family offices around the world, sharing best practices, the culture, history and future of modern global family offices.

This important book investigates how the European Union (EU) can use its regional funding programmes in ways that increase citizen well-being. It argues the case for enhancing the inclusivity of EU growth, which yields the promise of a more legitimate and stronger union.