Economic growth

This book examines the pattern of growth of the Spanish economy in the last few decades, and studies the causes of its labour productivity, and the special features characterising business cycles in Spain.

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

This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the population and underdeveloped states.

This book provides detailed empirical analysis of countries in Asia to examine various dynamic models that incorporate the impact of technology and innovations on the industry evolution and overall economic growth.

This book examines how to promote industrial development in low-income countries.

The globalized economy depends on local and context-specific factors.

Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field.

This book examines, theoretically and empirically, the key aspects and differences of economic growth.

The business services sector contributes heavily to European economic growth.

This book provides a detailed insight into productivity, efficiency and growth in the Chinese economy, and offers results on capital stock and ICT capital estimates (at both national and regional levels) which will be an important resource for readers.

This book presents theoretical and empirical investigation of the impact of human capital on economic growth in Ukraine during the period of 1989-2009.

Reforms and Economic Transformation in India is the second volume in the series Studies in Indian Economic Policies.

Ours is the most dynamic era in human history.

When India embraced systematic economic reforms in 1991 and began opening its economy to both domestic and foreign competition, critics argued that they had contributed little to the acceleration of economic growth.

India is not only the world's largest and fiercely independent democracy, but also an emerging economic giant.

The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world.

AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty combines the insights of economics and biology to explain the spread of HIV/AIDS and deliver a telling critique of AIDS policy.

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

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

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

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

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

Ours is the most dynamic era in human history.

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

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

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

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic English-language treatment of Mexico's economic history to appear in nearly forty years.

The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world.

In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century.

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

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

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic English-language treatment of Mexico's economic history to appear in nearly forty years.

Why do leaders of countries opt to sign on to international institutions that constrain their freedom to enact domestic policy?

China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity.

Prior to 1979, China had a bifurcated and geographically-dispersed industrial structure made up of a relatively small number of large-scale, state-owned enterprises in various industries alongside numerous small-scale, energy-intensive and polluting enterprises.

China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity.

Most discussions of India's recent economic growth focus on progress and policies at the national level.

In spite of recurrent criticism and an impressive production of alternative indicators by scholars and NGOs, GDP remains the central indicator of countries' success.

In spite of recurrent criticism and an impressive production of alternative indicators by scholars and NGOs, GDP remains the central indicator of countries' success.

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

India is not only the world's largest and fiercely independent democracy, but also an emerging economic giant.

In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century.

AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty combines the insights of economics and biology to explain the spread of HIV/AIDS and deliver a telling critique of AIDS policy.

East Asia is a powerhouse of automobile production.

East Asia is a powerhouse of automobile production.

Chapters 1 and 10 from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Academic.

Chapters 1 and 10 from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Academic.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries addresses some of the most important issues affecting labour markets in low-income countries.