Economic Growth

Nanotechnology is a generic platform with potential applications in many sectors. It promises to be a motor of economic growth with inclusive devel...

Productive employment opportunities constitute the primary ingredient of economic transformation and inclusive growth. This volume examines India's...

Despite rapid economic growth, the Indian economy is facing numerous social and developmental challenges which are a major hindrance to sustainabil...

There is a significant discrepancy between the population of Egypt and the GDP of this country. This book offers pragmatic policy prescriptions for...

This book analyzes consumption patterns in Asian countries that are at different stages of economic development and highlights the similarities and...

How do markets evolve? Why are some innovations picked up straightaway whilst others take years to be commercialized? Are there first-mover advanta...

12 Nobel Laureates take readers on a tour of some of the everyday issues that can be explored using basic economic principles. Topics include how e...

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

Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system. Yet, its production and use continue to draw negative criticism, and an inc...

This study addresses the two major challenges facing the global economy: globalization and the European structural crisis. In addition, it takes a ...

This textbook integrates three related fields in economics, namely agricultural/forestry economics, environmental economics, and international trad...

Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has slowed significantly since its impressive momentum of the early 2000s. This report draws on the latest po...

The Changing Wealth of Nations 2024 covers national wealth for countries as the sum of produced capital, natural capital, net foreign assets, and h...

This book proposes new methods of detecting causality among several dynamic variables and of estimating divisions of nominal income changes into ch...

Contemporary capitalism is characterized by periods of vigorous economic growth and periods of slow or even negative growth. This book draws on the...

This report aims to introduce a novel way of positioning water as an engine for growth and equity by highlighting the deep associations between wat...

The Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and prospects, with a special focus ...

The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative led by the World Bank under the auspices of the United Nations Sta...

The industrialisation of China prompted the biggest commodity boom of modern times. Soaring prices gave rise to talk of a commodity super cycle and...

Evolution of the Property Relation defines an approach to economics which is centered around the concept of property and explores the historical ev...

The global demographic transition presents marked asymmetries as poor, emerging, and advanced countries are undergoing different stages of transiti...

The Second Chinese Revolution explores some of the keys to understanding China, a country whose evolution already affects all of us. Beginning in 1...

This volume is concerned with labor market developments in China from a comparative perspective on selected East and South Asian countries. It clos...