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Foreign banks can play an important role in facilitating international trade. Most research has focused on the financing role banks can play, but less is known about the information role. This paper estimates a gravity model using sub-regional data from Turkey between 2002 and 2010 to explore whether foreign banks promote trade through the information channel. The presence of a foreign banks from a trade partner promote the exports of the sub-region. In addition, the analysis finds that the footprint of these foreign banks matters more for exports than the presence of these banks and the level of financial development of the sub-region. Banks from countries neighboring trade partners can also decrease exports. When taking into account financial conditions and examining the differential impacts during the recent financial crisis, the analysis finds that the footprint of foreign banks has the largest impact on trade.

Credit Constraints --- Foreign Banks --- Regional Development --- Trade

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In Asia today, the grand ideologies of the past have lost their power over the popular imagination. Even in many of the region’s democracies, popular engagement in the political process faces profound challenges. Yet amidst this landscape of political disenchantment, groups of ordinary people across Asia are finding new ways to take control of their own lives, respond to threats to their physical and cultural survival, and build better futures. This collection of essays by prominent scholars and activists traces the rise of a quiet politics of survival from the villages of China to Japan’s Minamata and Fukushima, and from the street art of Seoul and Hong Kong to the illegal markets of North Korea. Introducing an innovative conceptual framework, New Worlds from Below shows how informal grassroots politics in Northeast Asia is generating new ideas and practices that have region-wide and global relevance.

Community development. --- Community development --- Regional development --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- politics --- northeast asia --- Japan --- Social innovation

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Cities and regions represent the driving force of development in economic, social, and cultural life and reflect the spatial organization of human society. Furthermore, strategic urban regions are becoming increasingly important players in the global economy, as the impact of national states decreases while the impact of cities and urban regions is increasing. The process of globalization is reflected in the tendency for gaining competitiveness and efficiencies of global trends. Once cities and regions have identified where they are, they need to decide where they want to be in the future. And to do this, they need to understand the significant trends that will influence the direction in which the future unfolds. Managing the identified capitals (four of them are subject of the sections in this book) effectively means taking a holistic approach, since each of the capitals depends on the others. The necessity of taking a holistic approach is one of the themes to emerge particularly strongly from the knowledge-based economy.

Community development. --- Community development --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Development Economics --- Strategic Management --- Social Sciences and Humanities --- Management and Economics --- Business

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As austerity measures continue, accompanied by ongoing cuts in government services, the importance of community groups to social welfare and well-being becomes ever greater. This text offers a wide range of perspectives on the role and nature of those groups, specifically those that are operating outside the formal voluntary sector in the United Kingdom. These groups, which are unregulated, need more rigorous analysis than in the past as their role and scope continue to increase; this work represents a major step towards better understanding of how they work and what they do.

Community development. --- Voluntarism. --- Voluntary action --- Volunteer work --- Volunteering --- Volunteerism --- National service --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Community development --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Citizen participation --- Government policy

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Selected papers from the Low Impact Development Conference China 2016, held in Beijing, China, June 26–29, 2016. Sponsored by the Chinese Civil Engineering Society; Chinese Water Industry Society; Chinese Academy of Engineering—Division of Civil, Hydraulic, and Architecture Engineering; and the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE. This collection contains 41 peer-reviewed papers on the theory and practice of low impact development. Topics include: LID and urban planning and design; LID research and development; urban water infrastructure systems design and optimization; and LID case studies and recent advances. This proceedings will be of interest to researchers and practitioners working in water management and low impact development.

Urban runoff --- Water harvesting --- Sustainable development --- Urban and regional development --- Water management --- Project management --- Architectural engineering --- Hydraulic engineering --- Water resources --- Municipal water --- Management