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Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 59.95This book contains the most comprehensive and critical account available of the evolution of The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) norms and the viability of the ASEAN way of conflict management. more...
Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries
World Bank Publications 2004; US$ 34.99Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries presents research findings based on a series of commodity studies of significant economic importance to developing countries. First, the book sets the stage with background chapters and investigations of cross-cutting issues. Trade and domestic policy regimes affecting agricultural and food markets... more...
Trusting Trade and the Private Sector for Food Security in Southeast Asia
World Bank Publications 2011; US$ 24.99Trusting Trade and the Private Sector for Food Security in Southeast Asia challenges policymakers who oversee the rice sector in Southeast Asia and reexamines deep-rooted preceptsabout their responsibilities. The authors argue that fixating on national self-sufficiency hasbeen costly and counterproductive, and cooperation can both improve rice productionat... more...
Shipping Derivatives and Risk Management
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 130.00A comprehensive book on shipping derivatives and risk management which covers the theoretical and practical aspects of financial risk in shipping. The book provides a thorough overview of the practice of risk management in shipping with the use of theoretical examples and real-life applications. more...
Local Organizations in Decentralized Development
World Bank Publications 2005; US$ 14.99Local organizations have become key mechanisms in effective, fair, and sustainable resource management and development in India. This book adds empirical evidence to the debate on whether or not these functions are performed as expected. Based on research in three sectors in three states in India, the authors findings indicate that the design... more...
Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda
World Bank Publications 2005; US$ 24.99Agricultural trade reform is critical to a favorable development outcome from the Doha Development Agenda. But agricultural policies and the policy reforms being contemplated are fiendishly complicated, and the devil is in the details. Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda builds up from the essential detail of the tariffs and other... more...
Financial Globalization and Democracy in Emerging Markets
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 55.00When Mexico's peso crisis occurred in December 1994, all of Latin America experienced the 'tequila effect'. In January 1998, after seven months of financial turmoil in East Asia, Alan Greenspan, the usually reticent Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank, noted that such 'vicious cycles...may, in fact, be a defining characteristic of the new high-tech... more...
Developments in export marketing
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 199.00Export marketing research over the last four decades has covered a number of theoretical and practical issues such as standardisation and customisation, export development processes, barriers to exporting, export performance, etc. Rapid technological, institutional, legislative, economic and attitudinal changes across the globe pose challenges for... more...
The Myth of Free Trade
Touchstone 1996; US$ 19.95As an antidote to our economic ills?the federal deficit, our reliance on foreign imports, widespread downsizing, environmental destruction?Dr. Batra sets out a five-year plan for economic revival that includes raising tariffs on imports, banning mergers among giant firms, and encouraging domestic competition by splitting huge corporations into smaller... more...
The Myth of Free Trade
Touchstone 1996; Not AvailableAs an antidote to our economic ills?the federal deficit, our reliance on foreign imports, widespread downsizing, environmental destruction?Dr. Batra sets out a five-year plan for economic revival that includes raising tariffs on imports, banning mergers among giant firms, and encouraging domestic competition by splitting huge corporations into smaller... more...









