Economic growth

This book provides a brief history of the notion of development and  related policies.

This book presents recent innovative trends in land, water and energy management in Vietnam.

This book studies China's international relations, development strategies and development path.

The ability to harness Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) is increasingly at the heart of competitiveness and sustainable growth.

The era of digital transformation brings to small and medium-sized enterprises new challenges and complex issues that need to be navigated carefully and effectively to keep pace with the rate of local and global changes, to continue operating efficiently and competitively.

The benefits and costs of trade liberalization and financial integration is currently one of the most intensely debated topics in world economics, as the future of the emerging nations of Asia and the fate of more developed countries heavily depends on whether everyone can reap the benefits of this integrated and globalized world.

This book reappraises the Japanese employment system, characterized by such practices as the periodic recruiting of new graduates, lifetime employment and seniority-based wages, which were praised as sources of high productivity and flexibility for Japanese firms during the period of high economic growth from the middle of the 1950s until the burst of bubbles in the early 1990s.

This text interrogates the role of experts in governing and proposes a viable alternative: governing by democratic discussion.

This book analyzes Africa's unprecedented economic growth, the state of its financial sector, and the varied opportunities for Islamic finance investors.

Achieving the goals and objectives of sustainable development requires better information about the consequences of proposed actions.

Today's Mexico is strongly determined to become a full player in the globalizing international economy.

This book analyses how Calon Gypsies in Brazil have responded to global financial transformations and shifted their economic practices from itinerant trade to moneylending.

This book links the environment and corruption with China's large inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI).

Scholars have long been puzzled by why Muslim landowners in Central Asia, called begs, stayed loyal to the Qing empire when its political legitimacy and military power were routinely challenged.

A critical evaluation of Pasinetti''s structural dynamics, with contributions from post-Keynesian and neo-classical economists.

An original analysis of the relationship between political institutions and national economic performance in the developing world.

Technology transfer has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years in Western Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim.

Peter Lynch brauchte nur 13 Jahre – von 1977 bis 1990 –, um zu einer Wall-Street-Legende zu werden.

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

This book entitled 2017 Annual Competitiveness Analysis and Impact of Exchange Rates on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Sub-National Economies of India is the fifth edition of the Asia Competitiveness Institute's flagship analysis of competitiveness covering the sub-national economies of India.

Malaysia has grown and changed a great deal since it was formed on 16 September 1963.

This volume consitutes a summary of several years' multi-disciplinary research by a group of Swedish researchers.

This book is about where to go and what to do in China's reform.

Toseef Azid, Murniati Mukhlisin, Nashr Akbar, and Muhammad Tahir bring together leading researchers to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the monetary policy, corporate governance, their legal and regulatory issues and procedures that structure Islamic banks (IBs) and other Islamic financial institutions (IFIs).

This compact volume is meant as a modest contribution to the ongoing debate on how to transform in particular the radically reforming Eastern European economies into more productive sociopolitical organizations.

This book uses a critical political economy approach to develop an historically and politically grounded set of strategies for states to move toward a post-growth, decarbonised global economy.

The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's poorest people.

The book provides insights into the development of special economic zones, which are an important factor in the political and economic reforms in China.

This book focuses on economic relationships within the eight counties in the Philadelphia Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area.

This book presents a multidimensional perspective on the interlinkage between human development, community characteristics and public service delivery with special reference to India.

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.

The book discusses contemporary issues such as global financial architecture and regulatory practices, trade, investment and the multilateral process, the future of work, the role of technology for adaptation and mitigation of climate change, and financing infrastructure for sustainable development.

This book is a faithful record of China's economy that spans almost 70 years.

Managing Risk and Decision Making in Times of Economic Distress adds much needed scholarly analysis of the fledgling decision/control approach, arguing the merits of its empirical content to shed light on the structure of capital contracts and rationale for diversity of objectives.

Food safety concerns have boosted the Asian demand for quality food in general and products of geographical indications in particular.

This collection of essays by Ruttan and Hayami spans their long career in the economics of technical and institutional change.

The book brings together implementation studies from the Asia Pacific countries in the context of the deadline of 2015 for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

This book analyzes the development of the Israeli economy in its historical context.

This book analyzes the development of economic cycles in the run of history.

Two central problems in the pure theory of economic growth are analysed in this monograph: 1) the dynamic laws governing the economic growth processes, 2) the kinematic and geometric properties of the set of solutions to the dynamic systems.

At the outbreak of the global financial crisis, 2008, the G20 was widely acknowledged as helping prevent an even more serious decline in the global economy.

This brief presents a detailed look at the entrepreneurial ecosystem of nations around the world by combining individual data with institutional components.

This book collects high-quality papers on issues related to the rebalancing strategy in China, new clean cities as "e;hubs', liability management, and involving the private sector, including through PPPs, with specific examples from Guangdong.

This edited book brings together in one place new studies of rural-urban interactions and their implications for regional growth and development in different regions within Asia.

A fresh analysis of the secrets of Asian economic success and how other countries can escape the ''middle-income'' trap.

There are few innovations that have the potential to revolutionize commerce and have evolved so quickly that there remain significant misunderstandings about their operation, opportunity, and challenges as has Bitcoin in the dozen years since its invention.