Palgrave Macmillan

The conventional wisdom that parliamentary elections are now, more than at any time in the past, determined by voters' assessments of party leaders has been fiercely contested by comparative electoral research. To overcome the obvious mismatch between customary expectations about the role of party leaders and the conclusions drawn by scholarly...

Despite living in a 'globalized' world where advances in medicine, technology and science come at an ever-increasing pace, there exist staggering inequalities in health. Even as we celebrate new pharmaceutical developments, access to already-existing medicines is hindered by economic and political barriers for poor people around the world. Critical...

The financial crisis that began in 2007 exposed many flaws in modern financial practice and highlighted much need for change. Key among those needs is a way of understanding how and why banks fail or succeed. Integrated Bank Analysis and Valuation provides readers with a practical guide to the ROIC for Banks methodology - one of the few ways of...

Investing in Asian Offshore Currency Markets provides comprehensive coverage of the development of offshore currency trading in Asia, and in particular, the issues and challenges of developing the Renminbi as an international currency. Brought together by an editor team with extensive academic and market experience, it features contributions from...

Smuggling people into industrialized countries has become a growing industry globally, and Chinese human smuggling represents a significant source of illegal immigration. The financing of the illegal immigration process, however, is a vastly under explored area. This book provides an in-depth understanding of the relationship between informal...

The international monetary system is characterized by vast numbers of daily transactions involving huge sums of money. In an increasingly globalized world economy, these trades can have enormous repercussions on economies and can occasionally cause currency, banking and financial crises. International Finance provides comprehensive coverage of the...