Pyramid Asia
Pyramid Asia

Author: Ian Purdie

Publisher: A Sense Of Place Publishing

Published: 2014-09-12

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0992548713

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What could possibly be funny about two Tibetan boys climbing a mountain behind their village and finding a very strange object? Would any sane person laugh when the object turned out to be a time capsule created by an advanced civilisation over 300,000 years ago? And what about when the time capsule produces a hologram showing an enlightened society built on the principle of empowerment, a society which managed to destroy itself? How can anybody find it amusing when a heroin smuggling gang dispatches a deadly assassin to chase one of the boys and his rich Chinese girlfriend half way across Asia? Can you imagine what your life would be like if you were not being exploited every day? To find the answers to these intriguing questions, read Pyramid Asia immediately!

Base of the Pyramid Markets in Asia
Base of the Pyramid Markets in Asia

Author: Marlen Gabriele Arnold

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-02-13

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 0429754140

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The Innovation and Sustainability in Base of the Pyramid Markets series comprises four volumes, covering theoretical perspectives, themes, and various aspects of interest across four key geographical regions where Base of the Pyramid (BOP) markets are located – Latin America, Asia, Africa, and affluent countries. This book focuses on the BOP markets in Asia, and in particular the challenge of how to address the needs of deprived population groups in a sustainable manner. Base of the Pyramid Markets in Asia deals with, amongst other topics, the innovation and innovativeness that is necessary to better the life of resource-poor population groups. The book covers various themes and aspects of BOP markets in Asia and their embeddedness in socio-cultural settings, and adopts a variety of theoretical angles for analysing the phenomena. Thus, this book aims at furthering our understanding of BOP markets in Asia and at deriving valuable recommendations for managers and policy makers. BOP markets face unique challenges and private sector actors alone cannot ensure sustainable value creation activities. Multidimensional elements and factors are needed to alleviate poverty and create economic development aligned with principles of sustainable development. Therefore, the book comprises critical and empirical studies as well as conceptual papers on the challenges linked to BOP markets in Asian countries. This book is recommended reading for managers and policy makers, as well as students and academics interested in Base of the Pyramid markets.

Constructing East Asia
Constructing East Asia

Author: Aaron Stephen Moore

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2013-06-19

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0804786690

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The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut-and-dried picture is not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy from 1931–1945. Challenging the status quo, Constructing East Asia examines how Japanese intellectuals, bureaucrats, and engineers used technology as a system of power and mobilization—what historian Aaron Moore terms a "technological imaginary"—to rally people in Japan and its expanding empire. By analyzing how these different actors defined technology in public discourse, national policies, and large-scale infrastructure projects, Moore reveals wartime elites as far more calculated in thought and action than previous scholarship allows. Moreover, Moore positions the wartime origins of technology deployment as an essential part of the country's national policy and identity, upending another predominant narrative—namely, that technology did not play a modernizing role in Japan until the "economic miracle" of the postwar years.

Population in Asia
Population in Asia

Author: Warren C. Sanderson

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780821331316

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Published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press Presents a critical appraisal of adjustment programs and draws on case studies of successes and failures with quantitative appraisals of conditionality compliance and country performance.

East Asia Corporations
East Asia Corporations

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Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9780821346310

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East Asian corporations differ from their counterparts in other countries in important ways. Before the recent financial crisis these differences were viewed as one of the reasons for the success of East Asian economies. The crisis altered that view, and many scholars now argue that the weak corporate governance and financing structures of East Asian corporations are partly to blame for the recent crisis. This paper reviews several features of East Asian corporations, showing that they have high leverage and concentrated ownership, are typically affiliated with business groups, and operate in multiple industries. These characteristics affected the performance of corporations prior to the crisis as well as their ability to deal with its aftermath. Each economy's level of development also affected how these characteristics interacted with firm performance and valuation. Finally, the concentration of ownership in the hands of a few large families may have influenced economies' institutional development.

Maidan in Asia. Kazakhs and Arabs
Maidan in Asia. Kazakhs and Arabs

Author: Almaz Braev

Publisher: Litres

Published: 2022-08-10

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 5044584819

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Maidan in Asia resembles a nomad campaign. The same motives. It is only interesting why the Maidan of the Kazakhs was ten years behind the Maidan of the Arabs – the same nomadic Sunnis. Kazakhs have rebuilt themselves perfectly, they have learned everything, according to the level of professional and scientific, they could quite arrogantly look at “backward Africa”. Such a rapid restructuring could happen precisely from stress. Is the high reflection of the Kazakhs the reason?

Civilization begins in East Asia
Civilization begins in East Asia

Author: Yong Wan Choi

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2023-06-23

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1398426709

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Before the birth of China, Baekje’s ancestors began the Yellow River civilization, the Indus civilization, the Mesopotamian Sumer civilization, and the Aztec and Mayan civilizations in Central America. East Asian cultures and civilizations have spread to every continent of the world. The Chinese people were absorbed into the Korean. A mixture of Korean and Chinese people appeared in Asia for the first time in the time of the Zhou Dynasty.

Big in Asia
Big in Asia

Author: M. Backman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-10-10

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 1403914486

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Companies operating in post-crisis Asia find themselves confronted by obstacles that hinder development and progress. Written by two leading analysts, this book identifies the transformation of the competitive landscape in Asia. By focusing on the main difficulties faced by companies it provides a series of strategies for business success and show how to avoid failure in Asia. This is an essential guide for companies who wish to make it big in Asia.

Connecting Africa and Asia
Connecting Africa and Asia

Author: Yoichi Mine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-04-19

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1000587312

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By 2100, more than 80 per cent of the world’s population is expected to live in Afrasia (Africa and Asia). This book draws lessons from history, provides a new cognitive map of the world, and discusses multiple challenges global citizens will face in the age of Afrasia, an emerging macro-region. The centre of gravity of the world is shifting. Whether the world can manage a soft landing into sustainable equilibrium depends on the nature of the dialogue people in Africa and Asia will organise. The author argues that a state of equilibrium between the two is achievable, provided issues related to gender, employment, agriculture, human–nature relationships, and multicultural coexistence are simultaneously addressed. Can future Afrasia present itself as a community determined not to allow the return of predatory practice internally and externally? Will the fates of African and Asian peoples converge or diverge? How about the future relationships between Afrasia and the rest of the world? Exploring these questions using multiple disciplines, this book will be of interest to professional researchers and graduate students in IR and Afro-Asian relations, as well as Asian and African area studies, demography, geography, history, development economics, anthropology, language education, and religious studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

The Rise & Fall of Southeast Asia's Empires
The Rise & Fall of Southeast Asia's Empires

Author: don lehman jr.

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-11-08

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1312833289

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The Author treats Southeast Asia as a unified and distinct cultural entity. The narrative begins with her tectonic development and ends with the arrival of the Europeans circa 1500 CE.