People around the world spend at least one trillion dollars on travel each year. Travel and tourism comprise the world's largest industrial sector and employ over 300 million people, nearly one-ten…
The global economy, on which the world now depends more than ever, is in crisis. The Russian economy has collapsed, leading to punishing inflation and economic hardship. Scores of Japanese banks ar…
Retail banking is a vital business in today's financial services world. Until recently, institutions with a retail banking function- commercial banks, savings institutions, savings banks and credit…
How should governments and central banks use monetary policy to create a healthy economy? Traditionally, policymakers have used such strategies as controlling the growth of the money supply or pegg…
Well-functioning financial markets are critical for supporting East Asia's ambitious growth and development agenda. Over the coming years, East Asia's financial sector will need to be highly divers…
After 9/11, Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, knew, if he needed any further reinforcement, that we're living in a new world--the world of a global capitalist economy that is v…
The phenomenal worldwide development over the past decade of Islamic banking and finance is drawing much attention to South East Asia, which, on the platform of its own economic growth success, is …
Traces the development of financial relations between Japan and the United Kingdom since 1859. It also examines the re-emergence of London as a major financial centre in 1946, and the emergence of …
Warburton examines the economic time bomb created by unchecked credit expansion, in this book. The potential havoc it could wreak in the global economies and our personal finances is described here…
The use of violence to achieve political goals stretches all the way back to biblical times, and Walter Laqueur outlines its long practice in these pages. Yet his main concern is with the 21st-cent…