Author: OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and D
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Keywords: china, surveys, economic, oecd
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2010-02-03
ISBN-10: 9264076670
ISBN-13: 9789264076679

This 2010 edition of OECD’s periodic review of China’s economy finds that China’s spectacular expansion has continued in recent years, making for impressive improvements in living standards. The slowdown associated with the global financial and economic crisis was contained by massive fiscal and monetary policy stimulus, which has boosted domestic demand. This survey includes chapters on recent achievements and prospects, monetary policy, financial reforms, product market regulation and competition, inequality, the labour market, old-age security and the health care system.

Author: F. Stephen Larrabee
Publisher: RAND Corporatio
Keywords: global, geopological, change, era, relations, partnership, turkish, troubled
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 2010-02-16
ISBN-10: 0833047566
ISBN-13: 9780833047564

U.S.-Turkish relations, long a vital element of U.S. policy, have seriously deteriorated in recent years. However, the arrival of a new U.S. administration offers an opportunity to repair recent fissures. Priority should be given to harmonizing policy toward Iraq and the Middle East as well as Central Asia and the Caucasus.In Stock From the PublsiherA strong security partnership with Turkey has been an important element of U.S. policy for the last five decades. However, in the last few years, U.S.-Turkish relations have seriously deteriorated, and today they are badly in need of repair. The ar

Author: Lester R. Brow
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: substantially, revised, civilization, save, mobilizing, plan
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-10-05
ISBN-10: 0393337197
ISBN-13: 9780393337198

“[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington Post As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, we have begun investing in energy sources that can last forever. Plan B 4.0 explores bo

Author: The Council of Economic Advisers of the President
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: president, report, economic
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 2010-02-12
ISBN-10: 1441413413
ISBN-13: 9781441413413

The Economic Report of the President for 2010 is written by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. An important vehicle for presenting the Administration’s domestic and international economic policies, it provides an overview of the nation’s economic progress with text and extensive data appendices. For more than sixty years, the Economic Report has provided a nearly contemporaneous record of how Administrations have interpreted economic developments, the motivation for policy actions, and the results of those interventions. This year’s volume has attempted to stay tr