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This book examines postcolonial strategies for economic development in Africa from the 1960s to the present day.

A companion text to "e;Making the Economy Work"e;, this covers aspects of the Employment Institute's published output in its first three years.

Mark Dincecco examines the long-term evolution of political regimes and public finances in Europe.

This second edition studies the economic reasons for the existence of a variety of agglomerations arising from the global to the local.

The Post-Uruguay Round era has seen a proliferation of regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs) as well as progressive multilateral trade liberalization initiatives.

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Economic Restructuring and the Growing Uncertainty of the Middle Class focuses on a relatively new research area which is becoming increasingly more important: the growing uncertainty of the middle class.

This book assesses the current state of the Greek economy and detects its development and growth prospects up to 2030.

This volume brings together and expands on a body of research that I began in the early 1960s and have continued up to the present.

A business-based rallying cry to reclaim the US economy There is a nagging feeling that the U.

This book provides a new perspective of China's controversial foreign aid strategy.

Clarifies and develops how the notion of coevolution can expand the analytical and methodological scope of evolutionary economics.

Zhang argues that property institutions in preindustrial China and England were a cause of China''s lagging development in preindustrial times.

How do markets evolve?

It is now apparent to many scholars and practitioners that research and development activities and innovation are the pathways to sustainable economic growth.

This book develops a general economic theory that integrates various economic theories and ideas and establishes important relationships between economic variables that are not formally recognized in the economic literature.

Democratic and consolidated states are taken as the model for effective rule-making and service provision.

Explores how foreign banks financially connected modern China to international capital markets and the global economy.

In the aftermath of the devastating economic depression suffered for almost a decade, Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary Greece assesses the conditions shaping the Greek economy's restart, discussing the effect of institutions on the business environment and highlighting the factors which are critical for achieving sustainable economic growth.

This book examines South-South development aid and cooperation amongst BRICS and other developing countries from the angle of New Structural Economics.

Rising inequality in income and wealth across the OECD has been widely recognised and identified as a major concern; Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Rich Countries links this phenomenon with stagnation in wages and incomes for ordinary working households in order to address the challenge of promoting growth and prosperity.

Bjørn Lomborg invites leading economists to provide an innovative 150-year view of humanity''s biggest challenges, measured in economic terms.

Information, Innovation and Impacts - a joint project between the Program of Research in International Management and Economy (PRIME) at the University of Ottawa and Statistics Canada - brings together economic, social and statistical views of the impacts of the innovative uses of information.

The aim of this book, Future of the Telecommunications Industry: Forecasting and Demand Analysis, is to describe leading research in the area of empirical telecommunications demand analysis and forecasting in the light of tremendous market and regulatory changes.

To what degree are trade liberalization, productivity, and economic growth correlated?

This volume showcases the impact of the work of Douglass North, father of the field of new institutional economics.

This book documents poverty systematically for the world''s indigenous peoples in developing regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Sheikh Mubarak was the founder of the modern state of Kuwait.

This book explores the economic development trajectories of South Korea and Vietnam, focusing on the role of the state in economic success amidst similarities and differences in their experiences.

Environmental and Resource Valuation with Revealed Preferences: A Theoretical Guide to Empirical Models provides a systematic review of those economic approaches for valuing the environment and natural resources that use information on what people do, not what they say.

Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity.

Why are some nations wealthy and others poor?

This volume empirically analyzes the effects of quantitative easing (QE) on interest rates and the economy in the US, Japan, UK and Europe.

Technological dominance is shifting the balance of global economic stability.

During the past few decades, the interest of economists in the sources of long-term economic growth has led an increasing number of them to focus on the role of innovation in creating that growth.

The medieval Republic of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) was a prosperous small open economy, rivalling bigger competitors.

Why have some countries been able to escape the usual dead end of international development efforts and build explosively growing capitalist economies?

This book examines the impact of financing on Africa's economic development.

There is growing evidence that overcoming the low-income threshold and reaching middle-income status is not sufficient for countries to converge toward high-income levels.

This book revisits the historically different paths to economic development that Spain, the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States followed at different time periods since the early modern period.

Getting growth going has been rare in the developing world-since 1960 only nine developing countries have succeeded in sustaining high growth.

The object of this volume is to evaluate the pattern and the function of foreign capital in developing countries in a long-run perspective.

Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer of Beijing.

After many years of disappointing performance, Sub-Saharan Africa has shown impressive growth performance since the start of the millenium.

Flexibility seems to be the core concept of economic and educational change in our time.