Economic growth

Why are some people poor?

This book, the third in the Africa: Policies for Prosperity series, is concerned with the challenges of securing economic prosperity in Tanzania over the coming decades.

How do we measure African economic performance?

The volume aims to document and explain the sizeable decline of income inequality that has taken place in Latin America during the 2000s.

In 1994 South Africa saw the end of apartheid.

In 1994 South Africa saw the end of apartheid.

China's economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs.

Innovation is among the most important topics in understanding economic sustained economic growth.

Innovation is among the most important topics in understanding economic sustained economic growth.

Banks and other financial institutions play a fundamental and yet divisive role in the health of any economy.

Banks and other financial institutions play a fundamental and yet divisive role in the health of any economy.

With increased movements of people around the world, the role of transnational economic activity is becoming ever more significant.

With increased movements of people around the world, the role of transnational economic activity is becoming ever more significant.

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

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

Global capitalism is affected by the malaises of stagnation, financial fragility, increased income inequality, growing wealth concentration at the top, and a vanishing fair social contract.

Global capitalism is affected by the malaises of stagnation, financial fragility, increased income inequality, growing wealth concentration at the top, and a vanishing fair social contract.

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

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

The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the United States and most other countries since the 1970s.

The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the United States and most other countries since the 1970s.

Europe is in a serious crisis but that it can face up to these challenges.

Europe is in a serious crisis but that it can face up to these challenges.

Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers.

Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers.

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?

Korea's economic success has inspired numerous studies and research projects in past decades.

Korea's economic success has inspired numerous studies and research projects in past decades.

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.

Geopolitical shifts, increasing demands for accountability, and growing competition have been driving the need for change within transnational nongovernmental organizations (TNGOs).

Geopolitical shifts, increasing demands for accountability, and growing competition have been driving the need for change within transnational nongovernmental organizations (TNGOs).

Over the past quarter-century China has seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, prompting a shift in China's development strategy and the adoption of an array of new policies to redistribute income, promote shared growth, and establish a social safety net.

Over the past quarter-century China has seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, prompting a shift in China's development strategy and the adoption of an array of new policies to redistribute income, promote shared growth, and establish a social safety net.

This short primer distils Ruchir Sharma's decades of global analytic experience into ten rules for identifying nations that are poised to take off or crash.

"e;Education, education, education"e; has become an obsession for politicians and the public alike.

In the past fifteen years, Ireland has gone from being one of the poorest countries in the EU to one of the richest in the world.

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.

The Caribbean economy remains a region with many paradoxes.

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the global economic landscape, with the smallest and most vulnerable economies particularly hard hit.

This two-volume book examines the most important global problem-the recovery of the social-economic crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book analyzes the use of the mobile Internet against the background of gender bias and Covid-19, currently two of the most important and pressing problems of the Global South.

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.

Resilience has emerged as a key concept in EU foreign policy.

This book makes a new departure from others on the subject.

In 2021 Coventry celebrates being the national City of Culture.

This book explores how ?

Using institutional economics as a theoretical framework, this book analyzes institutional environment conducive to entrepreneurial activity in order to enhance economic performance across countries.

The main focus of this book is innovation for developing countries: what is the innovation for, what are the current conditions of the innovation, and how to effectively innovate in developing economies.

This monograph addresses the methodological and empirical issues relevant for the development of sustainable agriculture, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe.