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Global movements in the Asia Pacific /

The Asia-Pacific region is rapidly becoming the main area of growth in the global economy in the 21st century. Recent developments in the movement of people, goods, services, and information are closely linked to the latest round of globalization, of which the effects on this region are particularly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kee, Pookong, Yoshimatsu, Hidetaka
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Brain drain, brain gain, and brain circulation in a half-globalized world / Yuan T. Lee
  • ch. 2. Transnational business and diplomacy in the Asia Pacific / Alfonso T. Yuchengco
  • ch. 3. International mobility of the highly skilled : the role of the global knowledge network / Yasuo Uchida
  • ch. 4. International migration in Asia and the Pacific : key features and the role of the United Nations / Keiko Osaki
  • ch. 5. Globalizing householding : toward a multicultural age in East Asia / Mike Douglass
  • ch. 6. Migration policy : major issues for Japan and other OECD countries / Susumu Yamagami
  • ch. 7. The occupational and geographical locations of transnational immigrant minorities in Japan / Tony Fielding
  • ch. 8. Between privilege and prejudice : Chinese immigrants in corporate Japan's transnational economy / Gracia Liu-Farrer
  • ch. 9. Multicultural coexistence policies : responses of local governments in the Tokyo metropolitan area to the pressures of international immigration / Stephen Robert Nagy
  • ch. 10. Migration under the Japan-Philippines Free Trade Agreement / Michael Angelo A. Cortez
  • ch. 11. International migration, brain drain, and the Philippine economy's rocky road to development / Jose V. Camacho Jr.
  • ch. 12. The growing role of international remittances in the Vietnamese economy : evidence from the Vietnam (household) living standard surveys / Wade Donald Pfau and Thanh Long Giang
  • ch. 13. Staying in the global economy : a preliminary view of Vietnam after the end of the Agreement on textiles and clothing / John Thoburn
  • ch. 14. Emergence of the global development network in the personal computer industry / Yumiko Nakahara
  • ch. 15. The changing global environment of logistics : the cases of Hakata and Kitakyushu in Japan / Hiroshi Hoshino
  • ch. 16. The development of China's international shipping industries / Meilong Le
  • ch. 17. The future of the world's number one port
  • Hong Kong : a case study / Sunny Ho
  • ch. 18. Impact of port security on liquefied natural gas and container cargo movements / Paul T.-W. Lee and Young-Tae Chang
  • ch. 19. Transnational architectural production in downtown Beijing / Xuefei Ren.