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...