Economic Growth

Governance has been incorporated into the development models of many countries because of its role in ameliorating inequalities in society. This bo...

The term degrowth has emerged within ecological and other heterodox schools of economics as a critique of the idea (and ideology) of economic growt...

This open access book presents the evolution of the Spanish economy over the past seven centuries since the end of the Reconquest and examines how ...

Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form o...

Revised and updated for the third edition, this text is an introduction to the newer features of growth theory that are particularly useful in exam...

Auto manufacturing holds the promise of employing many young Indians in relatively well-paid, high-skill employment, but this promise is threatened...

Die von der Weltgesundheitsorganisation als COVID-19 bezeichnete Atemwegserkrankung entwickelte sich zu einer globalen Pandemie. Fast alle Länder u...

This book offers comprehensive analysis for individual cases of poverty alleviation to facilitate respective in-depth key learnings and an overview...

At the turn of the 21st Century, Asia pulled one billion people out of poverty in one generation, a meteoric rise suddenly stalled by the COVID-19 ...

Since its initiation of the financial sector reforms through a newly established global cooperation process in the post-2008 financial and economic...

During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The 2000s showed how it is an illusion to imagine a peaceful world without conflict...

< p=>This book is a machine-generated literature overview highlighting the importance of natural capital while studying the economics of ecol...

The Asia-Pacific Countries with Special Needs Development Report is a recurrent ESCAP annual publication that discusses issues of interest for Asia...

One feature of this book is the clarification of the development mechanism of Asia as a regional economy for over half a century, based on an Asian...

This book focuses on various issues of energy, energy efficiency and environmental policy in China. It discusses different aspects on how China may...

This book aims to enhance understanding of the academia, policymakers, and general readers about the development challenges and constraints on long...

Did you know that....* China is quietly purchasing and squirreling away vast amounts of the earth's remaining oil? * That the Chinese are a huge ma...

This book provides a new perspective of China's controversial foreign aid strategy. The chapters offer a thorough examination of data to show how C...

The purpose of this book is to fill the lack of micro evidences on a structural change of African producers. By collecting studies on single indust...

This volume seeks to go beyond the microeconomic view of wages as a cost having negative consequences on a given firm, to consider the positive mac...

The focus of this book is on industrial infrastructures of production and circulation, from power distribution and roads to dry ports and airports....

This book analyzes three points: employment conditions for migrant workers, the impact of industrialization as part of industrial clusters upon sur...

This book attempts to provide an effective strategy for industrial development based on the KAIZEN management training experiments conducted in Gha...

India is one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, high economic growth is accompanied by social stratification and widening econ...

Nations undergoing rapid economic growth require new institutions--both formal organizations and informal modes of interpersonal behavior. John Pow...

Nations undergoing rapid economic growth require new institutions--both formal organizations and informal modes of interpersonal behavior. John Pow...

This book illustrates the decline of the state-encouraged revival and legitimization of private enterprises in 1980s China. Chen argues that the ra...

This book studies the impact of China's outward foreign direct investment on the world economy. It uses both case studies and modeling approaches t...

This study assesses the current state of economic integration in Asia - in particular in East and South East Asia- and analyzes the prerequisites f...

This Minibook is a brief guide for Green Belt during a Lean Six Sigma project management or for Kaizen Leader during a process improvement activity...

This book consists of eight case studies investigating the political economy of the decision chain involved in natural resource extraction in resou...

In a turbulent global economy, the popular idea of declining farms and factories is largely unfounded. UN and World Bank data show growing output e...

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

This book assesses the phenomenon of international framework agreements (IFAs), examining their implementation and impact around the world as well ...

This book examines the emergence of capitalism and the ideologies surrounding its inception and subsequent progress; how markets are created and or...

The Planning Commission played a crucial role in the type of development that India followed after independence. However, even though most economic...

Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progr...

Sustainable Development in Malaysia and Indonesia examines a range of topics pertaining to sustainable development in the two countries. While Indo...

Conscious that trust deficit is a principal concern in East Asia, the book attempts to suggest ways to enhance confidence in certain key areas such...

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environme...

Texas' economic growth has consistently outpaced that of the United States as a whole over the past quarter century. What accounts for the state's...