International Business and Political Economy

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. World Trade Organization and World Economic Architecture

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4. Patent Laws and the Developing Countries

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5. Free Trade or Trade Management

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6. A New Reserve Currency

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7. Doha Climate Talk of the UN: Science vs Market

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8. Economic Policy in the Developed Word before 2008

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9. The Economic Crisis of 2008: Causes and Solutions

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10. Financial Stability and the International Monetary Fund

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11. The Greek Tragedy and Its Lessons

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12. Russian Reforms and Its Consequences

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13. Economic Reforms in India

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14. Privatization

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15. Privatized Pension

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16. Inflation in India

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17. Labor-Market Reforms in India

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18. Privatization of Electricity

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19. Economic Reforms in China

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20. Industrialization and Land Question

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This book is divided up into three sections. The first deals with the problem of the World economy and the most important issues affecting the World economy. The second analyses problem mainly affecting the developed countries. The third analyses the issues in the developing countries particularly in the BRIC countries.

• Developing Countries
• International Business
• political economy
• sustainability

• Nagasaki University, Japan

  Dipak Basu

• Graduate School of Business Sciences, Tsukuba University, Tokyo, Japan

  Victoria Miroshnik

Dipak Basu is Professor of International Economics, Nagasaki University, Japan. He has been awarded a University Medal, National Scholarship and British Council Scholarship. He was previously Lecturer at Oxford University; Institute of Agricultural Economics; and Research Officer at Cambridge University at the Department of Applied Economics. He was also Senior Economist in Charge, Standard and Poor, Middle East and Africa Division, and Senior Economist, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia. He is currently Member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Decision Sciences, Risk and Management, and previously the editor of Middle East and Africa Review, 1986–88.

Victoria Miroshnik is Associate Professor in Management, Tokyo International University, Japan. She was awarded the Adam Smith Research Fellowship from the University of Glasgow, UK and was previously Associate Professor in Management at Keimyung University, South Korea; American University Dubai; Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University, Japan; and a psychologist in the Military Academy of USSR in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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