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  • A Strategy for Resolving Europe's Problem Loans

    Europe’s banking system is weighed down by high levels of non-performing loans (NPLs), which are holding down credit growth and economic activity. This discussion note uses a new survey of European country authorities and banks to examine the structural obstacles that discourage banks from addressing their problem loans. A three pillared strategy is advocated to remedy the situation, comprising: ... Read more

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  • Tackling Small and Medium Enterprise Problem Loans in Europe

    Series Book 15 - IMF Staff Discussion Notes
    The global financial crisis has left a large private sector debt overhang and high levels of non- performing loans (NPLs) in several European countries. Small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) represent a significant and weak segment of the nonfinancial corporate sector. SMEs face a number of legal, financial, and regulatory challenges to restructuring that differ from those of larger corporates, ... Read more

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  • Raising the Consumption Tax in Japan: Why, When, How?

    Series Book 11 - IMF Staff Discussion Notes
    The note will make the case for a substantial increase in the VAT in Japan as a core measure of fiscal consolidation, assess its macroeconomic impact (on real activity and inflationary expectations), consider key elements in its design and implementation (dealing with the distributional consequences; ‘big-bang’ versus preannounced step increases); the importance of retaining a single rate and ... Read more

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  • Asian Histories and Heritages in Video Games

    Series series Routledge Advances in Game Studies
    This book explores the representations of national Asian histories in digital games. Situated at the intersection of regional game studies and historical game studies, this book offers chapters on histories and heritages of Japan, China, Iran, Iraq, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Turkey, and Russia.The volume looks beyond the diversity of the local histories depicted in games, and the ... Read more

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    Video Games and the Global South redefines games and game culture from south to north, analyzing the cultural impact of video games, the growth of game development and the vitality of game cultures across Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, the Indian subcontinent, Oceania and Asia. ... Read more

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  • Information Science

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    Series series The Basics
    Information Science: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the multifaceted field of Information Science (IS).Inviting readers to explore a modern field of study with deep historical foundations, the book begins by considering the complexities of the term "information" and the information life cycle from classification to preservation. Each chapter examines a different area within IS, ... Read more

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  • Games and Gaming

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    Series series Berg New Media Series
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  • Deep Mapping the Media City

    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Going beyond current scholarship on the “media city” and the “smart city,” Shannon Mattern argues that our global cities have been mediated and intelligent for millennia. Deep Mapping the Media City advocates for urban media archaeology, a multisensory approach to investigating the material history of networked cities. Mattern explores the material assemblages and infrastructures that have shaped ... Read more

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  • Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis

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    Series series Routledge Research in Art and Politics
    This book examines how renewed forms of artistic activism were developed in the wake of the neoliberal repression since the 1980s.The volume shows the diverse ways in which artists have sought to confront systemic crises around the globe, searching for new and enduring forms of building communities and reimagining the political horizon. The authors engage in a dialogue with these artistic efforts ... Read more

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  • Introducing Intercultural Communication

    Global Cultures and Contexts

    Taking a global and critical perspective, this textbook presents the concepts, theories and applications from the field of intercultural communication in a lively and easy-to-follow style.Covering all the essential topics, from immigration and intercultural conflict, to intercultural health communication and communication in the workplace, this cutting-edge 4th edition:Explains the key theories ... Read more

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  • Techno-Orientalism 2.0

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  • New Perspectives on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming

    Multiplayer 2

    Series series Routledge Advances in Game Studies
    Expanding on the work in the volume Multiplayer, this new book explores several other areas related to social gaming in detail. The aim is to go beyond a typical "edited book" concept, and offer a very concise volume with several focal points that are most relevant for the current debate about multiplayer games, both in academia and society. As a result, the volume offers the latest research ... Read more

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