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Economic liberalization, distribution, and poverty : Latin America in the 1990s
Taylor, Lance (contributor); Vos, Rob (contributor);  … - 2002
Since the late 1980s, almost all Latin American countries have undergone a series of far-reaching economic reforms, particularly in the areas of financial and capital account liberalization and trade. This book provides a comparative and analytical framework for assessing the impact of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852091
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Organizational innovations and economic growth : organosis and growth of firms, sectors, and countries
Sanidas, Elias - 2005
Analysing the USA and Japan from the late 19th century to the present day, the book provides an accessible synthesis of economics, management and econometrics to calculate the impact of various organizational innovations on economic growth. The author concludes that organizational innovations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851066
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Uneven paths of development : innovation and learning in Asia and Africa
Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Oyebanji - 2009
This book focuses on what can be learned from the complex processes of industrial, technological and organizational change in the sectoral system of information hardware (IH). The IH innovation system is deliberately chosen to illustrate how sectors act as seeds of economic progress. Detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851295
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Technological leapfrogging and innovation in Africa : digital transformation and opportunity for the next growth continent
Swartz, Ethné (ed.); Scheepers, Caren Brenda (ed.);  … - 2023
"Offering invaluable insights into technologically-driven change in Africa, this incisive book envisions myriad positive economic changes brought about by new technologies and innovations. Rooted in original research from contributors who have worked and taught in Africa, it encapsulates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437082
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Vanishing growth in Latin America : the late twentieth century experience
Solimano, Andrés (contributor) - 2006
inequality, political instability and productivity in explaining GDP increases. The book also looks at cycles of growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851916
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Monetary policy challenges in Latin America
Toledo, Fernando (ed.); Rochon, Louis-Philippe (ed.) - 2023
"This ground-breaking book analyses the severe monetary policy challenges facing Latin American countries. Contributors reflect on how these issues should be addressed by policy-makers, identifying the need for a synergic response from regional central banks. Arguing that the challenges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437071
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China's economic growth prospects : from demographic dividend to reform dividend
Cai, Fang - 2016
, economic growth in China must transform from an inputs-driven pattern, to a productivity-driven pattern. Academics, researchers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419847
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Foreign direct investment in Europe : a changing landscape
Liebscher, Klaus (contributor) - 2007
This book provides authoritative academic and professional insights into the effects of FDI on home and host countries. It highlights global trends and patterns, and explores related policy challenges all with a special focus on the countries in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419984
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Productivity in Asia : economic growth and competitiveness
Jorgenson, Dale Weldeau (contributor);  … - 2007
1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The … sources of growth of US industries -- 4. Total factor productivity growth in Chinese industries, 1981-2000 -- 5. Growth … accounting and productivity analysis by 33 industrial sectors in Korea (1984-2002) -- 6. Industry-wide total factor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420031
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Economic growth : new directions in theory and policy
Arestis, Philip (contributor);  … - 2007
-Cambridge controversies in capital theory for econometric practice /G.C. Harcourt --Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers : a … distribution of manufacturing productivity in the EU regions /Bernand Fingleton and Enrique López-Bazo --The role of wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420046