epub |eng | 2008-08-14 | Author:William J. Bernstein

Paradoxically, the real beneficiary of the Anglo-Persian seizure of Hormuz was the VOC.31 The nominal victors at Hormuz, the Persians and the English, derived little benefit from their newly won ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-07 | Author:Luís Catão

CLOSING REMARKS All things considered, it is imperative for policy makers in EMDEs not to ignore international trade’s distributional consequences as well as the unequal access to the gains from ...

epub |eng | | Author:Laleh Khalili

The Technopolitics of Managing Ports LinkedIn is useful as a research tool in maritime businesses because it clearly reveals a few trends in the management of ports. First, professional circuits ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Greg Anderson

Source: US Bureau of Economic Analysis. Table 5.3 North American FDI outflows ($US millions) Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Table 5.4 North American gross domestic product (US$ billions) Source: ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Kishore Mahbubani

Since opening its markets in 1978, China has in fact pursued significant political reforms—just not in the manner that Western observers expected. Instead of instituting multiparty elections, establishing formal protections ...

epub |eng | | Author:Benjamin L. Carp

Destroying tea by fire and flood continued to be popular. In early January, local Sons of Liberty stopped a barrel of tea after it crossed on the ferry from Boston ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Fred P. Hochberg

The state of the art in 1976. If you would, take a minute to consider your phone … not to stare at the screen, but to marvel at all that ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz

* The main provisions of which restricted a bank’s ability to engage in proprietary trading, i.e., trading on its own behalf, using the information that it gleans from serving others. ...

epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Jehan Sadat

Leah and I saw each other several times after the death of her husband, and she and I were together for the Norman and Florence Brody Family Public Policy Forum, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kimberly Clausing

So What’s the Problem? Concerns about Immigrants When immigrants join the domestic economy, there are many positive economic consequences. There is more output and economic growth. There are more gains ...

epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Hannan [Hannan, Daniel]

Britain finds herself isolated in the EU, not because of any conspiracy against her but because she differs from the others politically and economically. In a union where decisions are ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-05 | Author:Hoo Tiang Boon

4 AMERICA’S “RESPONSIBLE STAKEHOLDER” CALL AND THE SHARPENING OF DEBATE, 2005 TO 2012 Chapter 3 explored the trajectory of the Chinese RGP self-conception in the period 1997–2004. This chapter continues ...

epub |eng | | Author:Philip E. Muehlenbeck;Natalia Telepneva;

Conclusion Tanzania and the GDR eventually opened formal diplomatic relations on 21 December 1972. The Tanzanian Government's change of heart owed nothing to the GDR's own policies in Africa, however. ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Martin Ruhs

Chapter 6 Labor Emigration and Rights Abroad The Perspectives of Migrants and Their Countries of Origin Labor immigration policies are “made” in migrant-receiving countries, but they have important consequences for ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:Beto O'Rourke

In a time of increasing debate over almost every penny spent by the feds—a debate that almost shut down the government in 2011—it seems strange that law enforcement programs, unlike ...