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This book considers the impact of economic reforms on manufacturing performance and explores policy options for promoting manufacturing. Using country-specific case studies spanning Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and Latin America, the authors examine the evidence for and against both trade...
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Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies argues that only two centuries ago, no society had ever enjoyed sustained growth in living standards. The contributors to this book aim to discover why the world today exhibits a predilection for perpetual self-improvement. In...
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Over the last decade the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has contributed towards better corporate governance by tackling such burning issues as child labour and basic human rights violations. However, as the author argues in this important new book, the time has now come to...
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This book provides in-depth and innovative analysis of the minimum wage in Europe. The authors explore its role and scope within the enlarged EU, and address the question of whether there should be harmonization between the individual member states or even a common EU minimum wage. They also...
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1. At the crossroads of long-term development -- 2. The development of a dual economy -- 3. The lewis turning point -- 4. The demographic dividend -- 5. Growing old before getting rich -- 6. The risk of a middle income trap -- 7. The new engine of economic growth -- 8. Macroeconomic policies in...
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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...
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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...
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Is growth theory a real subject? /Franklin M. Fisher --What is endogenous growth theory? /Mark Roberts and Mark Setterfield --Is the natural rate of growth exogenous? /Miguel Leon-Ledesma and A.P. Thirlwall --The representative firm and increasing returns : then and now /Stephanie Blankenberg...
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The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic problems. This book aims to provide a critical review of the main debates on productivity in the domain of services. The first part examines the theoretical consequences of...
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What is the New Economy, what makes it new, and what are the implications for antitrust, regulation and macroeconomic policy? Providing a non-technical and compelling analysis of the modern macro-economy, the contributors to this volume, eminent scholars all, provide their views on the New...
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