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Exodus : warum wir Einwanderung neu regeln müssen
Die englische Originalausgabe erschien 2013 unter dem Titel Ëxodus. Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century” Wer darf ins Land kommen und wer nicht? Profitieren wir von der Einwanderung – oder hilft der Massenexodus nur den Migranten selbst? Paul Collier erforscht, welche Kosten und welchen Nutzen die weltweite Migration mit sich bringt: für die aufnehmenden Ländern (vor al…
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- 9783570552872
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- 318p.: 20 cm
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- 304.82
Liem Sioe Liong's Salim Group: The Business Pillar of Suharto's Indonesia
After Suharto gained power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he stayed as the country's president for more than three decades, helped by the powerful military, hefty foreign aid and support from a coterie of cronies. A pivotal business backer for his New Order government was Liem Sioe Liong, a migrant from China, who arrived in Java in 1938. A combination of the Suharto connection, serendipity and…
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- 9789814459570
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- xiv + 573 pages ; 23 cm
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- 338.64409598
Malaysia-Singapore: Fifty Years of Contentions 1965-2015
This book offers an interesting and informative account of the often fractious relations between two countries in the heart of Southeast Asia. It outlines the primary issues that plagued relations between Malaysia and Singapore in the last fifty years and the political, diplomatic and legal initiatives taken to address them. The author gives a first-person narrative of the seemingly endless beh…
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- 9789839541953
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- xvi+ 345 p.: ill.; 21 cm.
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- 327.59505957
The colour of inequality : ethnicity, class, income and wealth in Malaysia
This book provides an alternative insight to the debate on inequality in Malaysia, by focusing on the distribution of wealth or assets, rather than income. Despite tremendous increase in national income, the wealth gap in Malaysia is alarmingly high and extremely skewed. For instance, the top 0.2 per cent of depositors in Amanah Saham Bumiputera (ASB) has about 1,133 times more than the bottom …
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- 9789674152147
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- xviii+249 p.; 23 cm.
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- 338.9595
No Country For Righteous Men And Other Essays In A Culture Of Offendedness
This is is a collection of essays that examines the political landscape of Malaysia after five decades of independence. Although the writer claims partisanship to a specific political alliance, it is by no means a polemical work against the UMNO Establishment. What these essays attempt to do, is navigate through partisan terrain in the hopes of establishing a safe secular route out of this poli…
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- 9789670630120
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- xii+383 p.; 23 cm.
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- 320.9595
Lim Kit Siang: Defying the Odds
Lim Kit Siang has been fighting on the forefront of Malaysian politics since the late 1960s. Uncompromising in his mission to pull the country away from systemic race-based politics and all the ills that stem from the sustainment of these over five decades, he was jailed twice without trial. His persistence saw him and his followers well placed to participate in the surprising resurgence of pol…
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- 9789814516259
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- 243 p.; ill.; 23 cm.
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- 959.505092
From Third World to First : The Singapore Story, 1965-2000
In this second volume of his memoirs, Lee Kuan Yew begins by telling how he and a small group of Singaporean leaders banded together and, by "getting the basics right," transformed a poor and polyglot city into an astonishingly successful modern nation. Lee tells in crisp and polished prose how this group identified the key problems of nation-building, analyzed what needed to be done, and then…
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- 778 p.; ill.: 23 cm.
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The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World
In this visionary roadmap to the twenty-first-century, Kishore Mahbubani prescribes solutions for improving global institutional order. He diagnoses seven geopolitical fault lines most in need of serious reform. But his message remains optimistic: despite the archaic geopolitical contours that try to shackle us today, our world has seen more positive change in the past thirty years than in the …
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- 9781610394079
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- vii + 315 p.: ill.; 21 cm.
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- 327.50182
Politisches Framing Wie eine Nation sich ihr Denken einredet – und daraus P…
Politisches Denken ist bewusst, rational und objektiv – diese althergebrachte Vorstellung geistert bis heute über die Flure von Parteizentralen und Medienredaktionen und durch die Köpfe vieler Bürger. Doch die Kognitionsforschung hat die ›klassische Vernunft‹ längst zu Grabe getragen. Nicht Fakten bedingen unsere Meinungen, sondern Frames. Sie ziehen im Gehirn die Strippen und entsche…
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- 978-3-86962-208-8
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- 222 p.: 19cm
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- 320.014
The Entrepreneurial State. Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
It has become fashionable, especially among some Americans and British, to believe that the government that governs least, governs best. In particular, according to this strain of thought, innovation and entrepreneurship thrive most when government gets out of the way. Mazzucato strongly challenges this view, arguing that the most important innovations of recent decades can virtually all be tra…
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- 9781610396134
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- xxi_260 p.:ill.; 21 c.m.
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- 330.9
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