Author: James D. Rudolph Publisher: ISBN: Category : Nicaragua Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
This book is an attempt to treat in a compact and objective manner the dominant social, political, economic, and national security aspects of contemporary Nicaraguan society.
Author: Karen Rasler Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812244982 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 282
Book Description
Examining political hot spots stretching from Egypt and Israel to North and South Korea, How Rivalries End builds an original theory from patterns in successful conflict resolutions and reveals the key factors in reducing tensions and building long-term peace between adversaries.
Author: Barbara Meller Publisher: Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag ISBN: 3828852173 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 123
Book Description
In her doctoral thesis, Barbara Meller compiles her work on applied econometrics focusing on policy decision making in financial and monetary economics.In the first part of the book, the effect of financial globalization on the volatility of economic growth is empirically examined in a large sample of countries. The analysis provides clear criteria which countries should fulfill in order to benefit from financial globalization in terms of reduced volatility. In general, financial globalization is more favorable for countries with a higher ability to repay debt. The focus of the second part of the book is inflation persistence which is measured using long-memory techniques. As inflation persistence is one of the most crucial parameters affecting monetary policy, the analyses have important implications for the evaluation and conduct of monetary policy. In particular, the impact of the formation of the European Central Bank on inflation persistence is analyzed using panel fractional integration estimation. It is concluded that inflation persistence has decreased probably as a result of the more effective monetary policy of the ECB. Moreover, a new test to find a break in long-run persistence at unknown timing is introduced. Applied to US inflation rate, the test indicates that persistence has increased in 1973 and decreased in 1980.
Author: Joseph Alpher Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000231569 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 454
Book Description
Now in its seventh year, this annual review provides a detailed database on military forces and strategic developments in the Middle East. It offers statistics on populations, resources and military infrastructures, on armed forces and the military capacity of each state in the region, and on the Palestinian Liberation Organization. This year's volume contains essays on the activities of major armies in the Middle East, as well as in-depth analyses of fundamental strategic trends of particular relevance during the 1990s.
Author: Lehman Fletcher Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 100000418X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 385
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In this book contributors from various scholarly backgrounds interpret past trends in world food trade, aid and security and propose new policy options for the 1990s. They address the problems facing the distribution of global economic growth and trade between industrialized and developing countries while exploring the effects that supply, demand, assistance programmes, foreign aid and other policy variables have on the evolving world trade and food system. This book should prove of interest to a range of scholars and policymakers dealing with food, health, human rights, Third World development, agricultural economics, international political economy and trade policy.
Author: Frances Stewart Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780199241897 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 334
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This series traces the economic and social consequences of conflict both theoretically and through empirical investigations, including seven country case studies.
Author: James D. Rudolph
Author: Karen Rasler
Author: John Paxton
Author: Barbara Meller
Author: Joseph Alpher
Author: Lehman Fletcher
Author: Mark S. Hoffman
Author: Frances Stewart
Author: Jemera Rone
Author: J. Paxton