Development economics and emerging economies

Many nations and states have tried to build successful technological industries, but failed.

The history of the People's Republic of China can be classified into two distinctive periods: Mao's China (1949-1978) and Deng's China (from 1979 to the present).

The New Economy has hit China, driven by the Internet and e-commerce.

In the spring of 1992, Deng Xiaoping made a historical tour of south China, popularly known as the Nanxun ("e;southern tour"e;).

Economic analysis of the industrial experiences of the newly industrialized economies in Asia is generally lacking in the literature.

China's continuing economic reforms since 1978 have substantially altered its economic structure, expanding the service sector, including the tourist industry.

When the financial firestorm swept through Asia in 1997, many economists scrambled to put together a coherent explanation of such a crisis.

This is the very first book to offer seven substantial econometric models of the Chinese economy with the statistical data used, so that the reader will be able to reproduce them all and test them for any policy alternatives.

To date, the record of economic transition has decidedly been mixed.

While firms are attempting to expand into the global environment, many of the formerly communist nations are often misunderstood.

This book examines, from the legal perspective, China's process of WTO accession, its commitments to the accession, the implications of such commitments for its trade and legal systems, and its efforts toward WTO compliance.

It has taken China 15 long years of tough negotiations to achieve accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

After decades of declining profitability, China's industrial state-owned enterprises appear to be obsolete.

This book is part of a broad examination of Confucianism and its implications for modernization of the Confucian regions (covering mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Singapore).

The term "e;economic globalization"e; has been discussed extensively in the popular press, by business executives and by policy-makers all over the world.

This book presents pioneering work on an interregional input-output table of the Chinese economy and its applications to the analysis of interregional and interindustrial relations in China.

This volume is the outgrowth of a conference held at Peking University in May 2002, jointly sponsored by the American Committee on Asian Economic Studies, the Peking University School of Economics, and the China Reform Forum.

In the last two decades, China's western inland region has largely been left out of the nation's economic boom.

This important book explores alternative strategies in agricultural and rural development to address the impacts of globalization processes on smallholder agriculturalists and marginalized rural people.

As tariffs have fallen worldwide, the increasing importance of non-tariff policies for further trade liberalization has become widely recognized.

Confronted with rapid changes and market-place pressures, managers throughout Asia are questioning their leadership.

This research monograph provides systematic and comprehensive materials for applying inframarginal analysis to study a wide range of economic phenomena.

Inframarginal analysis represents a methodology that extends marginal analysis, using non-classical mathematical programming, in efforts to investigate corner solutions and indivisibilities.

For some twenty-five years after 1949, China did not exist and the country was only rediscovered in the 1970s.

Have you ever wondered what a term in international economics means?

At a time of robust worldwide debates on globalization, this compact volume showshow successful each of the East Asian economies have been in harnessing globalization by appropriate and alternative means to catch up with the advanced economies andwhat implications can be drawn to assess Chinese economic growth in context.

This volume is an updated survey and assessment of the recent policy initiatives of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, which have come to be known as the Hu-Wen's New Deal.

This book provides a discussion of the general impact of WTO membership on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and addresses the political and economic impact on cross-Strait relations of common membership.

In the 26 years since market-oriented reforms were introduced, China has emerged onto the world stage as a major economic presence, particularly since her accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001.

The Chinese economy today is at a critical crossroads.

Since women account for almost 50 percent of the world's population, the sustainability of development of the global economy can be greatly impaired if the state authorities in individual countries pay less attention to the improvement in the socio-economic status of women relative to men.

The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development.

The future growth and development of Asia - the most dynamic economic region in the world today - will have important implications for the rest of the global economy.

Given the rapid emergence of regional economic arrangements in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia, it is useful to understand clearly what regionalism implies for the region, as well as to take stock as to the far-reaching and complicated effects of formal economic cooperation and integration.

This book is a compendium of papers on various new movements that emerged after the Asian financial crisis, which lead to Asia becoming the enhanced growth center of the world.

The core of classical economic analysis represented by William Petty and Adam Smith concentrated on the field of development economics.

China's booming economy has drawn both admiration and fear from the rest of the world.

This book is a collection of Amitrajeet A Batabyal's most important papers on the environment and economic development.

Since its reform and opening up, China has experienced unprecedented social and economic development.

The Chinese in Southeast Asia, with their growing economic clout, have been attracting attention from politicians, scholars and observers in recent decades.

This book surveys major economic issues in the development of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since World War II.

This timely book reviews how South Asia is rising to the challenge of globalization.

This book is a reflection of the current research that explores the mechanism, dynamics and evidence of the impact of human capital on economic development and social well-being in modern China.

This book is a spin-off from a highly successful seminar series jointly organized by the Division of Economics of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Ministry of Education (MOE) of Singapore.

This book explores the important topic of fiscal decentralization in Asian countries, and focuses on how government finance and administration are being reformed to bring budgetary decisions closer to voters.

India's recent economic performance has attracted world attention but the country is re-awakening not just as an economy but as a civilization.

Trade liberalization is arguably a major issue in the conduct of commercial policy.

Since the end of the Cold War, developing a better framework to correctly recognize which direction globalization and the transition will take us has been necessary.

The International Conference on Chinese Enterprise Research (ICCER) is an annual event organized by the Lien-Chinese Enterprise Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University.

The importance of this book lies in its unique treatment of the economics of the developing countries.