economic policy

The author shares what he has learned about global poverty through visits to more than one hundred countries, and presents his plan for ending extreme poverty around the world by the year 2025.

An overview of Southeast Asia's economic development that provides profiles of eleven nation states; articles on history and context, issues, and relations with the wider world; and such reference tools as a chronology, biographies, and short profiles of ethnic groups and political institutions.

Explores the causes and effects of the 2008 U.S. economic recession and how various people in the government and the private sector have worked and are working to reverse its effects.

This book describes different types of economies around the world and how do they impact the global society.

Discusses the history, conflict, people, and changes through modern day China.

An introduction to democracy that discusses the origins from the ancient Greeks and Romans through the twenty-first century, and explains how and why democracy thrives, the struggles of women and minorities to gain democratic rights, globalization and other threats, and more.

Collects twenty essays that provide varying perspectives on issues associated with the United States economy, debating the involvement of the government; the benefits of cheap goods, services, and labor; and what can help it.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy argues that America has departed from its fundamental ideals more than any other time in modern history and that this departure has lead to significant domestic and international turmoil.