Economic growth

Provides unique reflections on the capability approach and its relevance to new human development policies and political liberalism.

Why do so few countries achieve development success?

This book addresses topics and issues of high relevance to the widely shared desire to promote inclusive growth, sustainability, and innovation within a context of global governance.

The Asia and the Pacific region is actively seeking ways to optimise the use and availability of its natural resources, which have been contributing to environmental degradation and hindering its sustainable development.

Proposes an new strategy for the beyond-GDP community which aims to replace the economic paradigm centred on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2030.

Innovation is increasingly recognized as a vitally important social and economic phenomenon worthy of serious research study.

Utilising Marxian, Weberian, and institutionalist approaches, this book proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the nature of Chinese economic history: the 'imperial mode' of China.

This proceedings volume presents the latest trends in innovative business development theory and practice from a global, interdisciplinary perspective.

In this volume, David B.

Identifies ethical issues raised in displacing people through development, and how an allocation of responsibilities aids compensation and environmental stability.

Exchanges play an essential and central role in the world's economy.

This book calls for a radical reappraisal of economic policy in the UK.

Isabelle Tsakok looks for patterns common to cases of successful agricultural transformation and then tests them against other cases.

In recent decades, new endogenous growth theory has become popular but the ideas are not new.

Without a clear and organized view of where and how entrepreneurship manifests itself, policy makers have been left in uncharted waters without an analytical compass.

Through a thorough analysis of China's recent history and economic development process, the authors of this book seek to explain the causes of China's economic rise and its impact on the rest of the world.

The book deals with economic issues related to income and wealth among individuals, regions and countries.

Examines the transformation of the Russian electricity system during post-Soviet marketization, arguing for a view of economic and political development as mutually constitutive.

The second edition of this user-friendly book, offering a clear and original introduction to the theory of economic growth.

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

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

Interest in and attention to entrepreneurship has exploded in recent years.

It explores the formation of India''s rural middle class, which rests on a complex, and often contradictory, set of processes that began unfolding with growing industrialisation in rural areas.

Fulfilling the Export Potential of Small and Medium Firms addresses the question, `How can economic policy contribute to a strong export performance by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries?

Explores the different choices made by donor governments when delivering foreign aid projects around the world.

Costs and Benefits of Economic Integration in Asia brings together authoritative essays that identify and examine various initiatives to promote economic integration in Asia.

China and India are the two most populous countries in the world and now also two of the fastest growing.

Explores the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.

Migration, Unemployment and Trade focuses on the issues of migration, welfare and unemployment in a trade and development framework.

On September 17 and 18, 1998, a conference took place at Mont Tremblant on the theme "e;Doing Business in a Knowledge-Based Economy.

This new volume of the Entrepreneurship and Global Economic Growth series explores Indonesia's most recent business and economic developments.

A new framework for measuring the evolution of human development and wellbeing in the modern world.

Examines inequality in overall distributions of income and expenditure, and disparities across gender, region, caste, race, and access to education.

Explores the combination of capital''s changing composition and labour''s subjective agency.

This second edition textbook shows how macroeconomic models for industrial countries may be applied to emerging and developing economies.

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This book provides an analysis of the process and outcomes of the tax reform, with a focus on progressivity, redistribution, and inequality.

India is one of the fastest growing countries in the world.

Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades.

In a turbulent global economy, the popular idea of declining farms and factories is largely unfounded.

In the twenty-first century, Britain faces new challenges from disruptive technology, an ever more competitive world and an ageing population.

This second edition textbook shows how macroeconomic models for industrial countries may be applied to emerging and developing economies.

Explains how managers can successfully build multinationals in emerging markets from the analysis of forty-one comparative cases of Mexican multinationals.

Sustainable investments, although not yet working under a comprehensive regulatory framework, represent a growing, worldwide phenomenon.

Immiserizing growth occurs when growth fails to benefit, or harms, those at the bottom.

Analyzes the different types of debt-for-development exchanges and the different ways they have been used by all donor nations.