Britain has the highest total of Chinese investment in Europe, and ranks 8th globally, according to a report that has been published by a US conservative think tank. Worldwide, China and Chinese companies have been big investors in the energy and power sector over the last decade, with this accounting for almost half of all the money invested overseas. Metals and transportation are also popular investments. In Britain, the pattern
To celebrate the start of the new academic term, Wiley have kindly provided free access to a selection of articles on African Economics from across our social science and humanities journals. All articles are freely available until 31 December 2013. Access the full list of articles are on Wiley’s website. A total of 50 have been made available for use, and can be read online, downloaded, printed and saved. Examples of available
Islam Christian Muslim relations : a bibliographical history / edited by David Thomas, Barbara Roggema and Alexander Mallett with Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala … [et al.]. Studies in medieval Shi’ism / Wilferd Madelung edited by Sabine Schmidtke. Studies on Sufism in Central Asia / Devin DeWeese. The dynamics of Sunni-Shia relationships : doctrine, transnationalism, intellectuals and the media / edited by Brigitte Maréchal and Sami Zemni. Hizbullah’s identity construction / Joseph
Middle East Brokers of deceit : how the US has undermined peace in the Middle East / Rashid Khalidi. Everyday Arab identity : the daily reproduction of the Arab world / Christopher Phillips. Regional economic integration in the Middle East and North Africa : beyond trade reform / Mustapha Rouis and Steven R. Tabor. Atlas of the Gulf states / by Phillip Cadene and Bridgette Dumortier. The Seljuks of Anatolia
Middle East Living in historic Cairo : past and present in an Islamic city / edited by Farhad Daftary, Elizabeth Fernea and Azim Nanji. The social dimension of Christian missions in the Middle East : historical studies of the 19th and 20th centuries / edited by Norbert Friedrich, Uwe Kaminsky, Roland Löffler. Visual productions of knowledge : toward a different Middle East / edited by Hanan Sabea, Mark R. Westmoreland
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) eLibrary Text Collection is now available to SOAS library users via our subscription to the UK Data Service. The IMF eLibrary Text Collection has periodicals, books and working papers – over 10,000 documents from 1951 onwards. This exciting new resource has information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalisation, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice and poverty reduction.
Economic theory in a changing world : policymaking for growth / edited by Sajal Lahiri, Pradip Maiti. Capital as will and imagination : Schumpeter’s guide to the postwar Japanese miracle / Mark Metzler.
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Globalization and economic nationalism in Asia / ed. by Anthony P. D’Costa. [Also available as an e-book from Dawsonera] Market threads : how cotton farmers and traders create a global commodity / Koray Çalışkan. [Also available as an e-book from ebrary] End this depression now! / Paul Krugman. Frontiers of commodity chain research / edited by Jennifer Bair.
Agriculture and a changing environment in Northeastern India / editor, Sumi Krishna. The making of Bihar and Biharis : colonialism, politics and culture in modern India, c. 1870-1912 / Narendra Jha. The Tibetan world of the Indian Himalayas : an ethnography of the ‘garden of Dakini’ / Tanase Jiro. Filming fiction : Tagore, Premchand, and Ray / edited by M. Asaduddin and Anuradha Ghosh. The underside of things : India
