First published in 1999, this volume, the first to be published in on Jubilee 2000, describes the plight of 52 of the poorest nations in the world and puts in detail the case for radical cancellation of past inert debt. The cost and benefit of this remission and the groundbreaking concordat of peoples and governments that could accompany it are examined in detail. It contains critiques of the economic bases of the World Bank and IMF approaches to debt management in developing economies, as manifested in structural adjustment programmes and their maintenance, misuse of excess reserves and the methods used to carry out restructuring and development projects. The British anti-slavery campaign saw a mobilisation of public opinion for a great cause. Using this as a source of inspiration, public opinion must again be mobilised for what amounts to the greatest opportunity for justice, compassion and forgiveness facing us all at the beginning of a new millennium.

First published in 1999, this volume, the first to be published in on Jubilee 2000, describes the plight of 52 of the poorest nations in the world and puts in detail the case for radical cancellation of past inert debt. The cost and benefit of this remission and the groundbreaking concordat of peoples and governments that could accompany it are examined in detail. It contains critiques of the economic bases of the World Bank and IMF approaches to debt management in developing economies, as manifested in structural adjustment programmes and their maintenance, misuse of excess reserves and the methods used to carry out restructuring and development projects. The British anti-slavery campaign saw a mobilisation of public opinion for a great cause. Using this as a source of inspiration, public opinion must again be mobilised for what amounts to the greatest opportunity for justice, compassion and forgiveness facing us all at the beginning of a new millennium.

This book spans several disciplines, bringing together elements of mathematics, computing, psychology, finance, and artificial intelligence. Using an agent-based approach, I have developed a comprehensive model which is used to model and predict financial contagion. The innovative feature of my approach may be the application of Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche. By investigating the neurosis mechanism as it applies to participants in financial markets, I analyze, in detail, the destructive impact of the herding effect.

Portfolio selection is an important research topic in the field of finance, but typically, existing portfolio models cover a single investment period and are static, while real-world investors operate dynamically over multiple periods. So multi-period portfolio selection models have been studied widely in recent years. This book mainly discusses the efficient frontier of the mean-VaR model for multi-period portfolio selection, and the algorithm and model for multi-period portfolio selection including uncertainty. Its main contents are as follows: firstly, effective solutions are given for the mean-VaR model for multi-period portfolio selection, and the efficient frontier problem is discussed. We then introduce credibility safety standards-based multi-period portfolio selection and fuzzy entropy-based multi-period portfolio selection models. We also present an empirical study for the two types of model.

On November 12th, 2001, China entered into the WTO in the capacity of a developing country. This was an important step in implementing China's fundamental policy of opening itself to the outside world, and has created excellent conditions for its further participation in international trade and economic globalization. But in recent years, a new trend has appeared in world trade: some developed countries have created a barrier to others entering their home markets for new trade by imposing a higher environmental quality standard than that of developing countries. They utilize a high environmental standard as an entry condition, in order to restrict imports, with the result that the traditional trade barrier has now been supplemented by a new environmental barrier - a "green trade barrier." Concerning the above issues, firstly, this book presents the background in which green trade barriers appeared in international trade, and then we analyze their basic characteristics and multi-faceted influences on China's export trade. After all the analysis, we suggest some potential countermeasures on both the micro and the macro levels to overcome green trade barrier

On a March afternoon in Cleveland, St. Bonaventure battled powerful Kentucky for 40 minutes and two overtimes in the first round of the 2000 NCAA Tournament. Though the Bonnies would lose that day, the moments that accompanied that game provided St. Bonaventure's proud alumni a vast sense of pride. For a men's basketball program that was once considered an elite entity, it was fulfilling return to glory. No one could have envisioned then that St. Bonaventure basketball would endure lowest of lows almost exactly three years later. The St. Bonaventure basketball scandal of 2003 created national headlines and rocked to its core a proud institution. The university president schemed to allow an ineligible player, by NCAA standards, on the court, leading to series of damning events. Victories were forfeited, a team in turmoil quit on its season, several of those involved were fired and a the president of the board of trustees, ripped by his role in the sorry state of affairs, committed suicide. As student-managers, we closely witnessed the circumstances that led to the upheaval. We were in the locker room, the coaches offices and on the team bench. We were there for all the corruption, deceit and greed. We were there when an ill-conceived plan came tumbling down in the harshest of manners and St. Bonaventure's lost ways became a punchline across the country.

Ever since it was founded, China's stock market has experienced a cycle of boom and bust. Some investors earn money from it, while many others suffer enormous losses. In recent years, the overall performance of China's stock market has been like a roller coaster. The entire stock market is full of speculation. Among all the factors related to this book, we decided to pay special attention to the impact of QFII (Qualified Foreign Institution Investor) trading in the market, because a large number of foreign investments can accelerate the development of the capital market. However, the impact of the QFII system on the host country is still a topic of debate among scholars. As a result, we focus on quantitative methods to analyze its impact. Methods for estimating the log- likelihood function and the filtered values of the time-varying volatilities and correlations are also provided. The key part of this book is focused on the most commonly used GARCH(1,1) model in terms of its goodness-of-fit and forecasting accuracy. we chose the Chinese market as the object of this study, in view of its special status of the Chinese market within the world economy.

This book discusses several popular crisis origin theories, such as the failure of monetary policy, abuse of financial derivatives, failure of supervision, the global economy imbalance, the imbalance of the American economic structure, and so-called "excessive" saving in emerging economies. We find that the recent financial crisis is closely linked to the operation of the dollar standard, and we also study its inherent vulnerability, and that of the US monetary policy. Finally, we conclude that the operation of the dollar standard was a primary cause of the financial crisis.

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a structured technique for dealing with complex decisions. Rather than prescribing a "correct" decision, the AHP helps decision-makers find one that best suits their goal and their understanding of the problem - it formalises a method for making decisions that people are already intuitively trying to apply mentally. This book introduces AHP, and a further development, which called Analytic Network Process (ANP). A case study is given to show how ANP can be applied, together with a short tutorial on a software tool, Superdecision, which can be used to implement the ANP.

This book introduces the history and new development as well as the criticism of all the psychological schools include Structuralism, Functionalism, Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, Humanism, Gestalt, Existentialism and Cognitivism. As a complementary to the main part of this book, personality test and European IQ test are given in the appendices. It is worth reading for those who are interested in psychology and researching in the area of psychology