Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. The Drive for Development -- Chapter 2. Enter local control -- Chapter 3. The force unleashed -- Part II. The Growth Mechanism -- Chapter 4. Hardware and software -- Chapter 5. Mechanization, automation and the labor market -- Chapter 6. Scale of operations --...

Khan presents a theory of financial crises in the age of globalization from an evolutionary perspective and suggests policies that may be necessary for averting or managing new financial crises. Starting with the Asian financial crises, he identifies new types of financial crises that result...

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

Technology Transfer and Economic Growth in Sub-Sahara African Countries – Lessons from East Asian Experience -- Technology Transfer for Economic Growth in Africa – Why it Matters -- Sub-Sahara African Countries’ Attractiveness to Technology Transfer -- Pragmatic Analytical Framework for...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. China’s Economic Reform Pattern: Fundamentals of “Infinite” Transition -- Chapter 3. Resources, Trends and Goals of Chinese Military Modernization -- Chapter 4. Limits for Continuity and Change in Political Transformations -- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

This paper investigates the link between health care expenditures and GDP for a sample of 21 OECD countries using recent developed panel cointegration techniques. In contrast to previous studies, the analysis accounts for the fact that health care expenditures are not only determined by income....

Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Expert Overviews -- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA -- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics -- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part...

1. Innovation in ASEAN countries -- 2. The Transformation of Embedded Means into Resources During Community-Based Venture Creation -- 3. Entrepreneurial Innovation Strategy in the Midst of Pandemic: A Case of Bersih Solution -- 4. Evolution of Entrepreneurship Development among Different...

This book provides an assessment of the megatrends that are reshaping the emerging markets landscape. With developing countries already accounting for 40% of world GDP, emerging markets consumption growth will be an increasingly important growth engine for the world economy over the next two...

The book constructs the Synergy Theory, a new theory of economic growth and calculation methodology. The book involves empirical comparative study on economic growth between China and the 14 developed countries, and on the basis of the synergy theory, divides GDP into labor compensation, capital...