Economic Growth

This book was first published in 1971.

Research on Singapore's economic history has been complicated by the absence of economic data on pre-independence Singapore. This book aims to fil...

This book is the first of its kind to systematically analyze and apply Lim Chong Yah's S-Curve Hypothesis to the various facets of economic growth ...

Due to their sheer size and stake in the global economy, China and India have long been identified as the two giant economies of Asia. This book pr...

This book provides a unique and timely analysis of the role of structural change in the economic development of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and S...

This volume provides an understanding of firms' R&D and innovation strategies and their economy-wide consequences. It is based on the premise t...

Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never do—Seville, for instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empir...

This volume analyzes the experiences of developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa, and examines how they might catch up. ...

China and India are the two most populous countries in the world and now also two of the fastest growing. By sheer virtue of the fact that China an...

Lost Glory: India's Capitalism Story deconstructs India's industrialization story, challenging contemporary ideas about her economy. Based on caref...

To recover from recession, the global economy must rely on the strong performance of developing Asian economies, and it has become clear not only i...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and off...

‘Commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government,’ wrote Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations, ‘and with them, the liberty ...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offere...

Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades. But the slowdown in global economic growth and signific...

Cities bring together masses of people, allow them to communicate and hide, and to transform private grievances into political causes, often erupti...

This book provides researchers, students, and practitioners with a methodology to evaluate the impacts of a wide diversity of development projects ...

What lessons can be learnt from 'developed' countries that might be useful for developing and emerging economies? With an emphasis on long-term gro...

Over the last 50 years, Dubai has transformed itself from a small fishing and trading village into an integrated, modern, and vibrant economy. The ...

The economies of the Arab states of the Gulf have gone through considerable changes in the last decade, spurred by high oil prices and ambitious di...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online ...

This book provides researchers, students, and practitioners with a methodology to evaluate the impacts of a wide diversity of development projects ...

China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are reshaping the world economy. These Southern Engines countries have experienced a dramatic transformation...

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

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

Why has the economic growth performance of Sub-Saharan Africa been disappointing on balance over the past 50 years? More importantly, what can be d...

There is great media fascination in the activities and lifestyles of the super-rich. But personal wealth is also important for those of more modest...

It is widely believed that the Indian economy witnessed near stagnation in real GDP growth from Independence till the late 1970s. Challenging this ...

There is great media fascination in the activities and lifestyles of the super-rich. But personal wealth is also important for those of more modest...

Prior to 1979, China had a bifurcated and geographically-dispersed industrial structure made up of a relatively small number of large-scale, state-...

Following the eight year rule of Idi Amin, then several years of war and civil war, the Ugandan economy was in ruins by the time peace was restored...

Many people have serious concerns about the environment and wonder whether solving environmental problems is compatible with continuing economic gr...

Over the course of the next 25 years, it is estimated that nearly eighty percent of global economic growth will originate in previously poor places...

One of the most comprehensive works in the vast area of human development in the North-Eastern region of India, this volume brings new thinking on ...