This book studies the impact of Egypt's Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Programme (ERSAP), the effects of which have been of great interest to the international community. Organizations such as the World Bank and the IMF uphold the programme as a success story and example for other...

Knowledge, Organizational Evolution, and Market Creation documents the emergence of the Indian multinational by looking at data from firms in the 'old' economy, such as those in manufacturing, steel-making, automotive components and heavy machinery and the 'new economy' such as software and...

Manufacturing has played a key role in the economic fortunes of the East and South Asian regions. This timely book analyses patterns of rapid catch-up and relative stagnation in the manufacturing sector and links these to economic growth in the region. Dr Timmer describes the manufacturing...

This book draws together recent contributions by Sanjaya Lall--leading authority on international investment, technology and industrial policy--on competitiveness and its major determinants. It draws upon his wide experience of competitiveness analysis in Asian and African countries and his...

1. Introduction -- 2. Decoupling of environmental pressure from industrial growth, 1990-2002 -- 3. Heuristic model of EST adoption -- 4. Brazil -- 5. China -- 6. India -- 7. Kenya -- 8. Thailand -- 9. Tunisia -- 10. Viet Nam -- 11. Zimbabwe -- 13. Eight-country assessment of factors influencing...

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...

Many developing and transition economies have not yet undertaken the policy integration measures needed to enhance the impact of industry on sustainable development. In this original and insightful book, national experts from Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey and...

Pt. 1. The role of the individual versus that of the institution -- Pt. 2. The econo-geographic aspects of emergence, cooperation and survival -- Pt. 3. The cultural levels of nation, gender, profession, sector and region in emergence, cooperation and survival.

New economic geography : some preliminaries / Bernard Fingleton -- Models of 'new economic geography' : factor mobility vs. vertical linkages / Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano -- Testing the 'new economic geography' : a comparative analysis based on EU regional data / Bernard Fingleton -- From theory...

This book assesses the structure of projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. It explains why, instead of the expected bilateral structure where a company from an industrialized country invests in a project in a developing country and receives the emission...