Paper Tiger

Author : Tom Coyne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781592402090
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paper Tiger written by Tom Coyne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's year-long attempt to earn a competitor's spot at the PGA Tour Qualifying School, an endeavor marked by such challenges as crash diets, sports psychiatrists, and obscure tournaments.

Author : Nayanika Mathur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107106974
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paper Tiger written by Nayanika Mathur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paper Tiger shifts the debate on state failure and opens up new understanding of the workings of the contemporary Indian state.

Author : Ted A. Kluck
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762766336
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paper Tiger written by Ted A. Kluck and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Xu Zhiyuan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781859817
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paper Tiger written by Xu Zhiyuan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In PAPER TIGER the Chinese journalist and intellectual Xu Zhiyuan paints a portrait of the world's second-largest economy via a thoughtful and wide-ranging series of mini essays on contemporary Chinese society. Xu Zhiyuan describes the many stages upon which China's great transformation is taking place, from Beijing's Silicon district to a cruise down the Three Gorges; he profiles China's dissidents, including Liu Xiaobo, Ai Weiwei and Chen Guangcheng; and explores lesser-known stories of scandals that rocked China but which most people outside that country did not hear about – and which shed troubling light on China's dark heart. Xu Zhiyuan understands his homeland in a way no foreign correspondent ever could. PAPER TIGER is a unique insider's view of China that is measured and brave, ambitious in scope and deeply personal.

Author : Douglas B. Fuller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198777205
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons written by Douglas B. Fuller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly inefficient financial system, coupled with asset-destroying state-owned firms, managed to create a number of vibrant high-tech firms? China's domestic financial system fails most private firms by neglecting to give them sufficient support to pursue technological upgrading, even while smothering state-favoured firms by providing them with too much support. Due to their foreign financing, multinational corporations suffer from neither insufficient funds nor soft budget constraints, but they are insufficiently committed to China's development. Hybrid firms that combine ethnic Chinese management and foreign financing are the hidden dragons driving China's technological development. They avoid the maladies of China's domestic financial system while remaining committed to enhancing China's domestic technological capabilities. In sad contrast, China's domestic firms are technological paper tigers. State efforts to build local innovation clusters and create national champions have not managed to transform these firms into drivers of technological development. These findings upend fundamental debates about China's political economy. Rather than a choice between state capitalism and building domestic market institutions, China has fostered state capitalism even while tolerating the importing of foreign market institutions. While the book's findings suggest that China's state and domestic market institutions are ineffective, the hybrids promise an alternative way to avoid the middle-income trap. By documenting how variation in China's institutional terrain impacts technological development, the book also provides much needed nuance to widespread yet mutually irreconcilable claims that China is either an emerging innovation power or a technological backwater. Looking beyond China, hybrid-led development has implications for new alternative economic development models and new ways to conceptualize contemporary capitalism that go beyond current domestic institution-centric approaches.

Author : Moises Naim
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 087003295X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paper Tigers and Minotaurs written by Moises Naim and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political and economic reform is at the top of national agendas around the world. This book based on Moises Naim's participation in the Venezuelan reform experience and as executive director at the World Bank raises questions and explores problems crucial to achieving national reform strategies. Naim's lucid analysis grapples with the problems of dealing with entrenched interests bent on derailing reform; allaying the corrosive effects of corruption and public outcry over inequitable burdens; coping with the political instability brought on by decimated public institutions; managing the impact of reforms on the military establishment; and mobilizing public support for measures as essential as they are painful. The heady days of revolution are gone and these and other dilemmas now confront besieged reform governments everywhere. The problem of managing these in the real world is the subject this book tackles.

Author : Olivier Rolin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803289995
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paper Tiger written by Olivier Rolin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their generation was anything but lost, at least in the beginning. Filled with fiery ambition and idealistic to a fault, they found their voice in the Paris of 1968 and were intent on exposing the powers of repression and the demons of Western capitalism (and what, really, was the difference?)?by any means. But the acts of violence misfired, the principles of Marxism and Maoism became emptied of meaning, and the casualties mounted. The protagonist Martin is now middle-aged; his group, ?The Cause,? is disbanded; his best friend has committed suicide; and he finds he must try to explain to the man?s daughter who they were, what they thought they were doing, and what happened. ø Paper Tiger takes place during one night that this unlikely couple spends driving around Paris as they revisit a somewhat distant past. This odyssey is adroitly evoked by Rolin's long, fluid sentences as they reflect the car?s route past the sundry signs of the past and advertisements of the present dotting the Paris beltway. ø This prize-winning novel by one of France?s most acclaimed writers tells, through Martin, the elegiac story of a whole generation?s coming of age.

Author : Damien Angelica Walters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940430577
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paper Tigers written by Damien Angelica Walters and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disfigured woman discovers a haunted photo album that could make her whole again but only at a terrible price.

Author : Christopher Prohaska
Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1646282108
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paper Tiger written by Christopher Prohaska and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paper Tiger is a small concise picture of my thirteen years spent contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Starting with securing weapons of mass destruction in Southern Iraq to giving away billions of US tax dollars while leading teams in Hillary's army. This book was written in the most sarcastic manner; as sarcasm was my endurance formula for the incompetence of leadership provided to us in mission accomplishment. If the enemy ever knew how much we improvised and the illusions we created, then we would all be getting our heads lopped off on the Internet.

Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785772248
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Toilet Paper Tigers written by Gordon Korman and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his Little League team gets a coach who knows nothing about baseball, seventh grader Corey is dismayed to see the team taken over by the coach's pushy twelve-year-old granddaughter.