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This book presents a comprehensive analysis of current trends in the patterns of trade in Asia, assessing how they are likely to develop in the future. Informed by the latest technical economic thinking, this book is a rigorous, but accessible, examination of the influence of an emerging economic superpower.

This book addresses a selected number of key topical issues that East Asian economies are facing today. The intensity of these issues has particularly risen since the advent of the 2008 global financial crisis. Written by a number of international experts in the area of Asian economics and business, the book presents the most recent macroeconomic outlook in East Asia and then goes on to analyse a number of business corporations and industry-related cases, focussing on the theme of firms¿ strategies, particularly in relation with the issue of corporate social responsibility.

This book examines the diffusion of economic ideas in East Asia, assessing the impact of external ideas on internal theory and practice. It considers economists from Adam Smith onwards, including Marx, Keynes, Hayek and contemporary economists, and covers the subject both historically and also includes present day and likely future developments. The book covers all the major countries of East Asia, and pays particular attention to specific economists who have had a strong impact in specific countries, and to important developments in economic theory in East Asia, exploring how far these have been driven by Western economic ideas.

Cyber risk has become increasingly reported as a major problem for financial sector businesses. It takes many forms including fraud for purely monetary gain, hacking by people hostile to a company causing business interruption or damage to reputation, theft by criminals or malicious individuals of the very large amounts of customer information (ΓÇ£big dataΓÇ¥) held by many companies, misuse including accidental misuse or lack of use of such data, loss of key intellectual property, and the theft of health and medical data which can have a profound effect on the insurance sector. This book assesses the major cyber risks to businesses and discusses how they can be managed and the risks reduced. It includes case studies of the situation in different financial sectors and countries in relation to East Asia, Europe and the United States. It takes an interdisciplinary approach assessing cyber risks and management solutions from an economic, management risk, legal, security intelligence, insurance, banking and cultural perspective.

This book argues that China's businesses face a huge crisis because there is a considerable shortage of competent business leaders in China, at a time when leadership skills are required urgently, as China's businesses evolve and engage ever more with the global economy. The book outlines the nature and extent of the problem, but argues that a new breed of manager is emerging, emphasising more flexibility, engagement with workers and competence in the market economy. The book evaluates different management approaches in China and sets out how self-development is widespread and important.

This book explores Akhuwat (literally brotherhood), a rapidly growing Pakistani NGO formed in 2001, which addresses the shortcomings of conventional microfinance. Its vision is of a society built on empathy and social solidarity and its mission is that of creating self-sufficiency among the entrepreneurial poor.

This book examines the diffusion of economic ideas in East Asia, assessing the impact of external ideas on internal theory and practice. It considers economists from Adam Smith onwards, including Marx, Keynes, Hayek and contemporary economists, and covers the subject both historically and also includes present day and likely future developments.

China's New Silk Road initiative is one of the most ambitious projects in recent decades designed to change the pattern of the global economic division of labour and the geostrategic balance of power. This book brings together leading scholars from economics, politicals and area studies, who discuss how the new initiative is developing.

This book explores the nature of employers¿ associations in the major countries of Asia. It considers how employers¿ associations have developed in recent decades, how changes in market structures and the profile of economies have affected employers¿ associations, how employers¿ associations deal with issues to do with pay and employment conditi

Examines the trends of human capital flows from India into Southeast Asia. Focusing in particular on Malaysia, Singapore, and, Thailand, this book provides an analysis of Indian labour in various sectors, including information technology (IT) sector, and oil and gas. It is useful to policy makers and students in the field of Asian studies.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most rapidly developing technology in the current Digital Age, but it is also the least defined, understood and adequately explained technological advance. This book brings together a group of leading experts who assess different aspects of AI from different disciplinary perspectives.