Economic growth

A growth-oriented economy challenges the inclusion of sustainability parameters, as the very elements that promote sustainability can appear incongruous with economic growth.

Since opening to foreign investment in 1979, China has emerged as the leading investment site for multinational corporations.

This book analyzes the current economic situations in African countries at the local, regional, and national level.

A new explanation of the Irish economic crisis, tracing its roots in Ireland''s earlier record of growth and development.

In the early 21st century, five rising powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) formed an exclusive international club, the BRICS.

The untold story, in their own words, of the contributions of Soviet and post-Soviet immigrants to the US innovation economy.

This volume is a report by leading international economic experts on China's economic priorities in the coming years.

In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the U.

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the biggest event of worldwide proportion was the 2008 global financial crisis, which was caused primarily by ineffective governance, failed surveillance systems, and implementation flaws.

Energy costs in the economy amount to only a few percent of gross domestic product, but their importance to economic growth is much greater than their apparent number.

Serving up fresh insights on Hong Kong's economic growth, this book investigates issues such as housing, immigration, monetary and financial systems, the business environment, and international trade and finance to provide a coherent and comprehensive overview of Hong Kong's position in the global economy.

This book assesses the main interrelationships between economic growth processes, life cycle sustainability assessment approaches, and new technologies in the framework of digital transition.

This book provides a thorough and detailed analysis of economic growth in Europe from a comparative industry perspective.

What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China?

This book presents a coherent framework for assessing economic policy making in developing countries, with special reference to those in Africa.

This landmark handbook explores cutting-edge research on the capability approach pioneered by Amartya Sen and Martha C.

Employs a framework rooted in social ecology and historical institutionalism to explain recent changes to China''s judiciary.

This is the first systematic quantitative account of British economic growth from the thirteenth century to the Industrial Revolution.

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth provides a timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the transformative trajectory undertaken by Chinese domestic enterprises, with a particular focus on Geely Automobile.

This book clarifies the mechanism of widening income inequality and declining labor share in macroeconomics, growth, technology, and the labor market, and provides policy implications.

How do markets evolve?

Highlights the interactions between institutions and policy choices, as well as the importance of historical constraints on Britain''s relative economic decline.

The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers'' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist development.

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

This book looks at how the benefits of economic development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa are not being equally distributed.

Structural Funds: Growth, Employment and the Environment is a book on the role of transfers designed for assisting sustainable development of less developed regions within the European Union.

and Feldman, 1996 or Audretsch and Stephan, 1996) show that unformalized knowledge may playa major role in the innovation of new products.

Studies key design features of policy pilots influencing their scaling-up and mainstreaming into formal policies.

This book will take the reader on a journey through the economic thought of Europe, spanning from ancient Greece to the modern day.

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

This volume analyzes the barriers to, as well as new drivers for, entrepreneurial development in post-communist countries.

The Beijing Olympics in 2008 marks the beginning of an era of new business opportunities in China for 1.

A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States.

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

Since opening to foreign investment in 1979, China has emerged as the leading investment site for multinational corporations.

This book gathers the outcomes of various, extensive research efforts on building a moderately prosperous society in minority areas, which would allow China's poor and poverty-stricken areas to comprehensively join the rest of society.

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which includes Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia, is a new but substantial regional organization.

This book focuses on one of the two G20 tracks, the finance track.

The book critically examines the high growth trajectory in India, particularly since the late 1980s, a period which is characterized by increasing inequality.

This book analyses the important role of agribusiness and rural enterprises in economic growth and development.

State of the art in sustainability thinking, inspired by interdisciplinary ideas of ecological economics.

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

Human Capital and Institutions brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth.

This book is an update of the competitiveness rankings for Greater China economies at the sub-national and regional level with the latest available data.

How can Africa, the world's most lagging region, benefit from globalisation and achieve sustained economic growth?