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"The United States of Europe" considers the post-WWII transition of
Europe from a diverse and disparate continent to the economically
integrated European Union of today. Initiated by the Benelux
Customs Union, and later the European Coal and Steel Cooperation,
the six-member European Economic Community was formed in 1957,
becoming the EC in 1967, and finally the EU in 1992. This process
of Europeanization reached its zenith in 1987 with the approval of
the Single European act, creating a single market economy. This was
followed in 1993 by the Maastricht Treaty, defining the intra-EU
macro- and micro-economic parameters. The inauguration of a single
common currency, the euro, on 1st January 1999 was a further
innovative step, a process that has enabled the EU-27 to enjoy a
competitive share of the world GDP and trade.
Grain legumes play significant and diverse role in the farming
systems and provide nutrition security to the largely vegetarian
and relatively poorer people around the world. These are ideal
crops for achieving three simultaneous developmental goals viz.
reducing poverty, improving human health and nutrition and
enhancing ecosystem resilience. Globally, grain legumes are the
second most important crop group next only to cereals but a large
proportion of area of it is under rainfed-low input systems as
compared to cereals contributing to lower yields. The other
important factor responsible for reduced yield in grain legumes is
the narrow genetic base of the present day pulse varieties. In
order to break the yield barriers of these cultivars, new sources
of genes/ alleles need to be identified and suitably incorporated
into the adapted background. The information on various aspects of
grain legume improvement although has been considerable in the
recent past, these information are highly scattered and not
available at one place. The present book consists of comprehensive
and latest crop-wise information on important grain legumes of the
world including their distribution, gene pool, systematics, status
of genetic and genomic resources, production constraints, traits of
importance, crop improvement methodologies - both conventional as
well as contemporary and future strategies to be adopted for
comprehensive grain legume improvement in various agro-ecological
target areas of the globe. The chapters have been contributed by
eminent crop experts from across the world engaged in research in
their respective crops for the past several years thus providing a
rare insight into the crop specific constraints and prospects
drawing from their rich overall experience. The book therefore will
be a useful source of information to the grain legume researchers,
students, policy planners and developmental experts alike.
Grain legumes play significant and diverse role in the farming
systems and provide nutrition security to the largely vegetarian
and relatively poorer people around the world. These are ideal
crops for achieving three simultaneous developmental goals viz.
reducing poverty, improving human health and nutrition and
enhancing ecosystem resilience. Globally, grain legumes are the
second most important crop group next only to cereals but a large
proportion of area of it is under rainfed-low input systems as
compared to cereals contributing to lower yields. The other
important factor responsible for reduced yield in grain legumes is
the narrow genetic base of the present day pulse varieties. In
order to break the yield barriers of these cultivars, new sources
of genes/ alleles need to be identified and suitably incorporated
into the adapted background. The information on various aspects of
grain legume improvement although has been considerable in the
recent past, these information are highly scattered and not
available at one place. The present book consists of comprehensive
and latest crop-wise information on important grain legumes of the
world including their distribution, gene pool, systematics, status
of genetic and genomic resources, production constraints, traits of
importance, crop improvement methodologies - both conventional as
well as contemporary and future strategies to be adopted for
comprehensive grain legume improvement in various agro-ecological
target areas of the globe. The chapters have been contributed by
eminent crop experts from across the world engaged in research in
their respective crops for the past several years thus providing a
rare insight into the crop specific constraints and prospects
drawing from their rich overall experience. The book therefore will
be a useful source of information to the grain legume researchers,
students, policy planners and developmental experts alike.
This is the sixth volume in the series on research in Asian
economic studies. This volume takes as its main theme the idea of
economic regionalization in this area and develops it in a series
of essays.
The 8th volumes of Research in Asian Economic Studies focuses on
topics such as "The new Industrial revolution in Asian economies"
"Economics, Econometrics and The LINK" is a collection of scholarly
contributions by leading scholars from the U.S., Europe, and Asia
dealing with issues of economics and econometrics. The book
contains a learned and erudite exposition of macroeconomics and
macroeconomic modeling including national, sectoral, issues
exchange rate, environment, international price competitiveness and
international linkages. It presents a comprehensive perspective of
econometric modeling - country-specific, sector-specific and
issue-specific. The volume is a tribute to the work of Lawrence R.
Klein from all his friends who share a common agenda, viz. to
relate the study of economics to the studies of mankind.
This is a new volume in the successful and long-running "CEA
Series". The Asian Economy with one common Asian Money is a
frontier topic of study in supranational macroeconomics. If the
Europeanization of Europe has become a historic reality, the
Asianization of Asia cannot be far behind. The paradigm of the
European Union (EU) has become a learning model for other
continents, especially Asia. In Asia, the process was initiated
following the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, when several newly
industrialized Asian economies suffered negative rates of growth of
gross domestic product (GDP).The three (Japan, China, and Korea)
plus five (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the
Philippines) came together to became the core members of a new
regional group. Their annual meetings became an institutional
feature of Asian economic cooperation and regional economic
integration. In 2003, the group expanded to become the four (Japan,
China, Korea, and India) plus 10 model (the original five plus
Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei Darussalam, and Viet Nam). The book
examines the prospects of, the justification for, and the
implications of the development of a common Asian currency.
European Union and the Euro Revolution is a challenging study of
the progression of the historic movement towards one European
family. This volume is the first, most comprehensive exposition of
the treatise of supranational macroeconomics. The Keynesian
Revolution taught us macroeconomics in the context of a sovereign
nation state. In the post-WWII decades, the concept of
supra-national macroeconomics became the core theme of the European
Union. Indeed, the traditional concept of a sovereign nation state
economy begs a thorough reexamination.
One common economic unit with its well-specified micro and
macroeconomic parameters has been mapped onto one common geographic
unit, the continent of Europe, a group of sovereign European nation
states voluntarily surrendering their erstwhile sovereignty. The
official inauguration of one common money, the euro, managed by one
common supra-national central bank, the European Central Bank
(ECB), on January 1, 1999, has been an epochal event in the
eventful history of the European Union (EU) from 1958 through the
present. As of 1999, with the euro and the ECB firmly established,
the debate became: one money to one Europe.
European Union and the Euro Revolution draws on the authors
extensive field studies as a Visiting Scholar with three European
national central banks, De Netherlandsche Bank in Amsterdam, Banque
de France in Paris, and Der Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt and
Japans Ministry of Finance in Tokyo.
His personal conferences with Dr. Otmar Issing, Chief Economist and
a Member of the Executive Board of the ECB enriched his
understanding of the related issues. His personal conferences with
ranking economists and policy-makers ofBank of Japan and Japan Bank
for International Development Tokyo, the Peoples Bank of China
(PBOC) Beijing, Reserve Bank of Australia Canberra and Reserve Bank
of New Zealand, Wellington, the Federal Reserve Banks of New York,
San Francisco, and Atlanta plus his invited presentations at
universities and research institutions in USA, Japan, China, Korea,
Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand,
Viet Nam, Nepal, India, Australia, and New Zealand have added
resourceful inputs to this volume. His invited presentation in 2002
at the special workshop sponsored by the United Nations
International Training and Research (UNITAR) at the United Nations
Headquarter in New York City, of course, brought meaningful
insights.
*Contributions to Economic Analysis was established in 1952
*The series purpose is to stimulate the international exchange of
scientific information
*The series includes books from all areas of macroeconomics and
microeconomics
This volume features an in-depth analysis of the Asian financial
crisis and its impacts on the economies of the region by
thirty-five scholars and professionals working in the area. The
volume contains a detailed analysis of the root causes of the
crisis. Some of the authors pursue their analysis with a
quantitative approach while others utilize a more qualitative
approach. Attention is also directed to the impact of the crisis on
international trade and finance. Much of the discussion of this
topic focuses on the impact of the crisis on the structure and
volume of trade, and on the rise in the number of trade disputes.
The impact of these developments on intra- and inter-regional
capital flows is also treated. The contribution of APEC (Asia
Pacific Economic Cooperation) is assessed. Likewise, the emergence
of new trends in the shape of regional monetary policies is also
given attention. A special feature of the volume is the assessment
of the impact of these developments on China's economy, the
inflation rate and its international financial posture. Finally,
the effect of recent events on industrial organization particularly
with regard to the chaebols in Korea and the keiretsu in Japan is
discussed, along with an assessment of the prospects for successful
reform of the East Asian system of conglomerates.
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