A comparative study of world cities should not neglect the specific spatial, social and economic conditions in which globalisation as a process is embedded and directed in a city like Mumbai.

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Ethnohistories of the Global City « Heptanesian Archives

A very small percentage of Obama’s $825 Billion Economic Stimulus Plan is supposed to be spent on the arts, primarily through the administration of the NEA and the NEH. Already there has been protest from the political right against …

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The Economic Stimulus Plan and the Arts.

The global financial crisis is now threatening to transform Great Britain — which had evolved into a powerhouse of global finance during the 1980s and 1990s — into an economic backwater akin to the once-great manufacturing rust belt …

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Great Britain - The "Rust Belt" of Global Finance

The Changing Geography of Banking and Finance - Two contrasting trends have emerged from the intense integration and consolidation process that have swept the European and US banking industry in the 1990s: the geographical …

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The Changing Geography of Banking and Finance

Title: Save. Journal of economic issues.

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Intute - Full record - Journal of economic issues

Real Time Economics offers exclusive news, analysis and commentary on the economy , Federal Reserve policy and economics . The Wall Street Journal’s Phil Izzo and Sudeep Reddy are the lead writers, with contributions from other Journal …

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Bush On Jobs: The Worst Track Record On Record - Real Time …

Economic , Social and Demographic Thought in the XIXth Century - According to current understanding, Malthus was hostile to an excess of population because it caused social sufferings, while Marx was favourable to demographic growth …

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Economic, Social and Demographic Thought in the XIXth Century

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the political and economic dilemma that Islamic finance (IF) poses on some Muslim Governments of either encouraging or restraining this global phenomenon; in spite of their awareness of …

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Emerald: Article Request - The development of Islamic finance …