Global Economic Development
Economic Update
Having ridden out the global economic downturn, the IT industry looks set to continue its impressive expansion in Dubai, though it will have to deal with increased competition from within the region as well as further afield – especially Asia – as it seeks to attract new investors and clients.
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A Crude Awakening – The Oil Crash $5.19 While the previous eco-doc Who Killed the Electric Car? spent some time on the world’s oil crisis, A Crude Awakening (formerly OilCrash) builds an entire film around the subject. Swiss journalist Basil Gelpke and Irish filmmaker Ray McCormack have constructed their narrative in a conventional manner, alternating between talking heads, archival footage, and modern-day material, but the addition of… |
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Explaining Globalization $17.69 What does globalization mean for the world economy and for Americans? That’s the topic explored in this series of reports and discussions from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Business correspondent Paul Solman strolls through Brookline, Massachusetts with Harvard economics professor Robert Lawrence, exploring what globalization looks like at street level. David Gergen discusses globalization with N… |
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Between Two Worlds $21.99 Between the world in which we live and the world that we hope to build lies a fundamental choice between conventional growth and sustainability. BETWEEN TWO WORLDS examines this choice, and the related challenge of securing environmental health, economic vitality, and social equity for both present and future generations. Filmed in 15 diverse countries, it tells the story of how our world is cha… |
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Cities XL 2012 $39.96 Cities XL 2012 is the newest version of the popular PC city-building simulation, which allows you to build, develop and then connect huge cities. Cities XL 2012 allows you to become real urban planners, balancing economic & energy developments of your cities while managing transportation, housing, social services and recreational activities. Content is key to the new game, as Cities XL 2012 offers… |
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Cossacks: European Wars $44.99 This software is BRAND NEW. Packaging may differ slightly from the stock photo above. Please click on our logo above to see over 15,000 titles in stock…. |
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Axis & Allies $12.95 A Rare Classic WWII SimulationProduct InformationDecide the fate of a nation and the destinyof the world with this historical WWII strategy game. As the world powersbattle for supremacy in 1942 spearhead your country’s military drive.Plan strategic bombing raids sneak submarine attacks hit-and-run infantryattacks and antiaircraft barrages. Move into embattled territories andresolve conflicts. At t… |
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Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World $16.70 Fareed Zakaria and Ian Bremmer: Author One-to-One In this Amazon exclusive, we brought together authors Fareed Zakaria and Ian Bremmer and asked them to interview each other. Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International and writes a weekly column on international affairs. He also hosts “Fareed Zakaria GPS” for CNN. He is the author of the New York Times best-sellers The Future of Fre… |
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Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff–and it’s all small stuff (Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff Series) $1.98 Got a stress case in your life? Of course you do: “Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things all at once.” Carlson’s cheerful book aims to make us stop and smell–if not roses–whatever is sitting in front of our noses. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… offers 100 meditations designed to make you appreciate being… |
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground. In a book the Wall Street Journal called “marvelous, rewarding,â the authors tell how the stress of living on l… |