This book comprehensively investigates the challenges to Myanmar’s access to the global market. Myanmar is a late entrant in the global trade and investment scenario after years of isolation. However, it has large untapped potentials for trade and investment in minerals, agro and forest based...

This book examines the struggles of the Japanese economy over the last 30 years, analyzing in detail the formation of the huge economic bubble in the 1980s, its collapse at the beginning of the 1990s, and subsequent two decade long economic stagnation and chronic deflation, with the aim of...

Introduction -- The Foundations: Human Needs and Cultural Background -- Culture in Economic Thinking -- Cultural Background and Economic System -- The Effect of Cultural Background on Incentives, Growth and Distribution and Vice Versa -- Cultural Background and Rationality -- The Cultural...

1. The Improbably Surge of Corporate China -- 2. What Is in a Great Company? -- 3. Does ROIC Apply to Corporate China? -- 4. The “Great” Hope Struggles -- 5. It Is Also About Corporate Governance -- 6. The Perils of Diversification -- 7. Shake up the Foundations -- 8. The Beginning of A...

Chapter 1: Introduction and previous visits to Seoul -- Chapter 2: The Historical Development of Korea -- Chapter 3: The Country and its People -- Chapter 4: State and Economy - Essential Development Principles -- Chapter 5: Powerful Conglomerates - The CHAEBOL -- Chapter 6: Challenges for...

In this book, the author develops a framework for studying fundamental challenges to the modern Saudi Arabian economy. He offers an analysis of key challenges facing the Saudi economy, including the potential costs and benefits of privatization, globalization, and eventual membership in the WTO

The Setting -- Overview -- The Development Process -- Reforms and Economic Planning -- Public Finance -- The Financial Sector -- Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) and Monetary Policy -- The Financial Markets -- The Saudi Capital Market -- The Domestic Sector -- The Private Sector:...

The Greek economic crisis has imperilled the stability of the eurozone, generating much global anxiety. Policymakers, analysts, and the media have daily debated the course of the Greek economy, prescribing ways to move forward. This collection of essays progressively moves from an analysis of...

This book presents for the first time a detailed and comprehensive interpretation of Zhongguancun, China’s first national self-dependent innovation demonstration zone. Explored in the book are examples of world-class, leading enterprises in fields, such as the Internet, big data, artificial...