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  • Towards a Northeast Asian Security Community

    Implications for Korea's Growth and Economic Development

    Edited by Bernhard Seliger, Werner Pascha ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The Northeast Asian security environment is closely linked to Korea’s growth perspectives for the future. The spectacular rise of the South Korean economy in the past half century, also known as “Miracle on the Han River,” has been duly highlighted as one of the most successful cases of economic development worldwide. However, among the factors curbing South Korea’s growth perspectives has been, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Korean Science and Technology in an International Perspective

    Edited by Jörg Mahlich, Werner Pascha ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    South Korea has attained spectacular economic success in recent decades. It has reached the status of a Newly Advanced Economy, with challenges increasingly mirroring those faced by other advanced economies. These include the necessary upgrading of the labor force, the frictions of switching to a national system of innovation adapted to leadership in R&D, market-based economic policies that ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Japan's Socio-Economic Evolution

    Continuity and Change

    by Sarah Metzger-Court, Werner Pascha ...
    From the commercial and industrial transformation of Osaka in the late 19th century to the role and status of Japanese multinationals in Europe: these two themes represent both the time-span and the breadth of this volume. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Systemic Changes in the German and Japanese Economies

    Convergence and Differentiation as a Dual Challenge

    Edited by Werner Pascha ...
    Should Japan and Germany strive to restructure their institutional fabric and arrangements to make them more similar to Anglo-American standards? Where will systemic change lead? This book offers fresh insights by collecting Japanese and German contributions to this scholarly discussion both from theoretical and empirical viewpoints. A major conclusion of several papers is that the forces of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Institutional and Technological Change in Japan's Economy

    Past and Present

    Edited by Janet Hunter, Cornelia Storz ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in endogenous growth theory. At a practical policy level, arguments rage about how Japan and the Japanese economy should plan for the future.In this book, leading economists and economic historians of Japan ... Read more

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  • Contested Governance in Japan

    Sites and Issues

    Edited by Glenn D. Hook ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are involved in different sites and issues of governance at home, in the region and the globe. It includes ... Read more

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  • A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century

    An Inside Overview of Current Fundamental Changes and Problems

    Edited by Rien T. Segers ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Many people in the West portray Japan as being fixed in its ways, and unable to change, and consequently risking national decline and international loss of prestige. However, in fact, Japan is at present in a significant transition period, comparable to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 or the period immediately after the Second World War. This transition period comes with a mixture of events and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Living Cities in Japan

    Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments

    Edited by André Sorensen, Carolin Funck ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment, and of environmental management processes, such activities are widely referred to as machizukuri, and represent an important development in local politics and urban management in Japan.This volume examines the growth and nature of such ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • One Illness Away

    Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty

    by Anirudh Krishna ...
    Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large numbers are concurrently falling into chronic poverty. This book presents the first large-scale examination of the reasons why people fall into poverty and how they escape it in diverse contexts. Drawing upon ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Workers, Unions, and Global Capitalism

    Lessons from India

    by Rohini Hensman ...
    While it's easy to blame globalization for shrinking job opportunities, dangerous declines in labor standards, and a host of related discontents, the "flattening" of the world has also created unprecedented opportunities for worker organization. By expanding employment in developing countries, especially for women, globalization has formed a basis for stronger workers' rights, even in remote sites ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan

    Challenges and Opportunities

    Edited by Stephanie Assmann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia and the Environment
    Rural communities in Japan have suffered from significant depopulation and economic downturn in post-war years. Low birth rates, aging populations, agricultural decline and youth migration to large cities have been compounded by the triple disaster of 11 March 2011, which destroyed farming and fishing communities and left thousands of people homeless. This book identifies these challenges and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Institutional Approach to Labour and Development

    Edited by Klárá Fóti, Laurids Lauridsen, Gerry Rodgers ...
    Series series Routledge Research EADI Studies in Development
    Bringing together the work of economists and sociologists in research programmes in a number of European institutions concerned with development, this collection analyses how social institutions contribute to an understanding of development. It shows how labour markets, labour relations and employment patterns respond to institutional forces, and thereby shape development paths and determine how ... Read more

    $79.99 USD