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  The Sovereign Debt Crisis

  Placing a Curb on Growth

  April 2013

  Saddled with often high debt burdens and modest growth prospects, developed countries must now rebalance their government budgets. Faced with this dilemma, Japan and the United States have pursued growth policies while the euro-area members are quickly trying to rebalance their budgets. The Sovereign Debt Crisis explores the respective risks associated with these two strategies.

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  Time to Set Banking Regulation Right

  April 2013

  Time to Set Banking Regulation Right argues that the new Basel III Accord and the ensuing EU Capital Requirements Directive IV fail to correct the two main shortcomings of international prudential rules: reliance on banks’ risk management models for the calculation of capital requirements and the lack of accountability by supervisors.

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  A Legal and Economic Assessment of European Takeover Regulation

  Christophe Clerc, Fabrice Demarigny, Diego Valiante and Mirzha de Manuel Aramendia, April 2013

  Taking as its point of departure the EU Directive on takeover bids, this book considers the legal and economic foundations of takeover regulation and its role in promoting economic growth and competitiveness.

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  Regulation of European Banks and Business Models: Towards a New Paradigm?

  Rym Ayadi, Emrah Arbak, Willem Pieter de Goren and David T. Llewellyn, April 2013

  This analysis provides policy-makers with guidance to reinforce the evolving regulatory framework in European banking.

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  Open Budgets: The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation, and Accountability

  Sanjeev Khagram, Archon Fung and Paolo de Renzio, eds., April 2013

  Sanjeev Khagram, Archon Fung, Paolo de Renzio, and their contributors explicate political economy factors that have brought about greater transparency and participation in budget settings across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

• A Growing Force: Civil Society's Role in Asian Regional Security

  Rizal Sukma and James Gannon, eds., April 2013

  A Growing Force explores how civil society organizations are contributing in five areas—piracy, disaster relief, human trafficking, health, and climate change—in order to diagnose how they are helping and what can be done to make them more effective.

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  The Arab Revolutions and American Policy

  Nicholas Burns and Jonathon Price, eds., April 2013

  This volume evaluates the various drivers and outcomes of the Arab revolutions, all of which continue to bear an ever-greater influence on the formulation of American strategy in the Middle East.

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  Perilous Desert

  Insecurity in the Sahara

  Frederic Wehrey and Anouar Boukhars, eds., April 2013

  This volume canvasses the Saharan security landscape, focusing specifically on the sources of change and continuity since 2011. It explores the relationships between weak governance, demographic and ethnic tensions, and external stressors like illicit smuggling, terrorism, and the flow of arms.

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  Asia's Middle Powers? The Identity and Regional Policy of South Korea and Vietnam

  Joon-Woo Park, Don Keyser and Gi-Wook Shin, eds., March 2013

  While holding a range of views on the contentious concepts of middle power and national identity, the contributors to Asia’s Middle Powers? help readers, both academic and policy practitioners, to gain an enhanced appreciation of South Korea and Vietnam’s regional behavior and international strategies.

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  Corporate Responsibility in Europe: Government Involvement in Sector-Specific Initiatives

  Thomas Beschorner, Thomas Hajduk and Samuil Simeonov, eds., March 2013

  This study explores sector-specific corporate responsibility. It analyzes specific examples of how national, regional, and local authorities foster CR in the chemicals and chemical products industry, wholesale and retail trade, construction, information and communication technologies, and financial services industries across eight European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK).

• Water and Green Growth

  March 2013

  This report demonstrates the benefits of a green growth perspective for water resources management (WRM). It pays particular attention to transition: how to inject green growth elements in WRM policies, or in national water strategies, and how to make reform happen.

• International Journal of Labour Research: The Spread of Precarious Employment: Trends, Effects and Perspectives, Volume 4, Number 2

  March 2013

  This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research examines the trends and the reasons that lie behind this expansion, as well as their effects on workers and various segments of the labor force such as youth and women and inequality.

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  Assessing Pathways to Success: Governance Capacities and Need for Reform in Asia

  March 2013

  China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia are all undergoing rapid economic development. Assessing Pathways to Success looks at the routes available to these aspiring economic tigers, as well as the many potential pitfalls their leaders must negotiate along the way.

• Resources Futures

  Bernice Lee and others, March 2013

  The specter of resource insecurity has come back with a vengeance. Poorly designed and short-sighted policies are making things worse, not better. The outlook is one of supply disruptions, volatile prices, accelerated environmental degradation, and rising political tensions over resource access. This ground-breaking report brings new insights into the new political economy of resources and proposes a series of critical interventions.

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  Shaping Globalization: New Trends in Foreign Direct Investment

  March 2013

  In this book, leading experts analyze the most important trends in foreign direct investment, from the increasingly active role emerging economies play as investors in Africa to the rising U.S. and Europe suspicions of Chinese takeovers. They also focus on how global challenges including climate change and the aging of societies will act as new drivers of foreign investment, reshaping the patterns of globalization once again.

• Turkmenistan under Berdimuhamedow

  Annette Bohr , March 2013

  This report offers the first comprehensive account of the domestic and foreign policies of Turkmenistan—one of the world’s most repressive states—since President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow took power in 2006.

• The World's Changing Industrial Landscape

  March 2013

  This report is the culmination of a research project that explores how the global industrial landscape might change between now and 2020, the outlook for key global industries over the next decade, and the role of emerging “global champions.”

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  Military Engagement

  Influencing Armed Forces Worldwide to Support Democratic Transitions (Volume One: Overview and Action Plan)

  Dennis Blair, March 2013

  Admiral Dennis Blair shows how established democracies can—and why they should—take full advantage of their points of contact to move dictatorships toward democracy.

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  Jacketed Women: Qualitative Research Methodologies on Sexualities and Gender in Africa

  Jane Bennett and Charmaine Pereira, eds., March 2013

  Jacketed Women covers broadranging issues and includes questions about what it means to research topics that are unpopular or fraught with the sense of the taboo that underpins much work in sexualities and gender studies.

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  Global Wage Report 2012-13

  ILO, March 2013

  This report provides information on regional and global trends in the areas of wage statistics and wage policies and offers deeper yet accessible insights into individual wage-related issues.

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  Trends Shaping Education 2013

  March 2013

  Trends Shaping Education 2013 is designed to give policymakers, researchers, educational leaders, administrators, and teachers a robust, nonspecialist source to inform strategic thinking and stimulate reflection on the challenges facing education.

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  Local Commons and Democratic Environmental Governance

  Takeshi Murota and Ken Takeshita, eds., March 2013

  Providing a much needed antidote in this age of globalization, this volume advances the idea of collaborative governance as an integration of open and closed commons.

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  OECD Factbook 2013: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics

  March 2013

  The Factbook provides data for all OECD member countries including regional area totals, and in some cases for selected nonmember economies.

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  Global Employment Trends 2013

  March 2013

  The annual Global Employment Trends reports provide the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labor productivity, and working poverty, while also analyzing country-level issues and trends in the labor market.

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  The Thistle and the Drone

  How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam

  Akbar Ahmed, March 2013

  In The Thistle and the Drone, Akbar Ahmed reveals how the war against global terrorism has exacerbated the already-broken relationship between central governments and their peripheral tribal societies.