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“florentine koppenborg”

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  • Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance

    by Florentine Koppenborg ...
    In Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance**, Florentine Koppenborg argues that the regulatory reforms taken up in the wake of the Fukushima disaster on March 11, 2011, directly and indirectly raised the costs of nuclear power in Japan.** The Nuclear Regulation Authority resisted capture by the nuclear industry and fundamentally altered the environment for nuclear policy ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • International Trade

    The Basics

    by Jessie Poon, David L. Rigby ...
    Series series The Basics
    Trade impacts on the lives of all global citizens, influencing the range of commodities available for consumption and where those commodities are produced. Driven increasingly by market exchange, trade shapes the nature of work and how the costs and benefits of that work are distributed around the world. Economic growth and development are closely associated with the flows of goods and services ... Read more

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  • Agriculture for Economic Development in Africa

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    by Emelie Rohne Till ...
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  • The Rise of China and India in Africa

    Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions

    by Dot Keet, Kwesi Aning, He Wenping, Fredrick Mutesa, Peter Kragelund, Alex Vines, Sanusha Naidu, Liu Haifang, Sanjukta Bhattacharya, Alemayehu Geda, Atnafu G. Meskel, Peter Draper, Tsidiso Disenyana, Renu Modi, Linn Axelsson, Professor Timothy M Shaw ...
    Series series Africa Now
    In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive ... Read more

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  • Japan

    The Precarious Future

    Edited by Frank Baldwin, Anne Allison ...
    Series Book 1 - Possible Futures
    On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and ... Read more

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  • India And The Wto

    by World Bank; Stern Robert M.; Mattoo Aaditya ...
    This book is designed to clarify India's interests in the WTO Doha Development Agenda and to provide a blueprint for its strategy in the Doha Round negotiations. The individual chapters span the Doha Development Agenda and include: calculations of the economic effects on India and other major trading countries/regions of the Uruguay Round negotiations and the prospective Doha Agenda negotiations; ... Read more

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  • Conversations about Energy

    How the Experts See America's Energy Choices

    Edited by Jeremy Carl, James E. Goodby ...
    Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key topics. The contributors present a range of ideas and recommendations that might improve the ... Read more

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  • Local Content Requirements

    A Global Problem

    by Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Cathleen Cimino-Isaacs, Jeffrey Schott, Martin Vieiro, Erika Wada ...
    Series series Policy Analyses in International Economics
    In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008–09, economists feared that protectionist policies might sweep the world economy, echoing the wave of tariff escalations during the Great Depression of the 1930s. To some surprise, officials were more restrained and largely avoided traditional forms of protection (tariffs and quotas). As a result, economists underestimated the incidence of new ... Read more

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  • Dynamics of Japan’s Trade and Industrial Policy in the Post Rapid Growth Era (1980–2000)

    by RIETI ...
    Series series Economics, Law, and Institutions in Asia Pacific
    This open access book provides an in-depth examination of Japan's policy responses to the economic challenges of the 1980s and '90s. While MITI's earlier role in promoting rapid growth has been addressed in other studies, this volume, based on official records and exhaustive interviews, is the first to examine the aftermath of rapid growth and the evolution of MITI's interpretation of the economy ... Read more

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  • Energy Transition and Energy Democracy in East Asia

    Edited by Jusen Asuka, Dan Jin ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This is an open access book.The subject of this book is to provide down-to-earth information on what kind of actions are being taken by the Government, Local community, Businesses, Researchers, NGOs on the energy transition in this region. It gives an updated picture of the energy transition in the East Asian countries, where the economic growth, as well as CO2 emission growth, is significant.This ... Read more

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  • Changing Politics in Japan

    by Ikuo Kabashima, Gill Steel ...
    Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima—a former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture—and Gill Steel outline the basic features of politics in postwar Japan in an accessible and engaging manner. ... Read more

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