'Not only is this excellent collection of papers a fitting tribute to Angus Maddison, it is also a great resource for thinking about future patterns of global economic growth both in the BRICS and the OECD based on key insights from historical experience.' (Nicholas Crafts, University of...

This original Handbook on the Northeast and Southeast Asian Economies provides a broad overview of economic and social developments in the countries covered (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Lao, Malaysia, Myanmar, North Korea, The Philippines, Singapore, South...

This book explores key economic problems and new policies for the global economy of the 21st century. The contributors discuss to what extent past policy errors were due to the incompetence of policymakers, and highlight problems including: international payments imbalances and currency crises,...

This book explores in-depth the major issues and important aspects of this economic recovery and its potential impact on growth, development, trade and investment. Expert contributors also discuss the global directions in international economic and financial relations, corporate and public...

Contents: Part I Theory and evidence on finance and growth -- 1. Financial development and innovation-led growth / Phillippe Aghion, Peter Howitt and Ross Levine -- 2. Financial structure, economic growth and development / Franklin Allen, Xian Gu and Oskar Kowalewski -- 3. Evidence on finance...

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Peculiarities of economic development -- 3. -- Critique of existing theories and a new beginning -- 4. Western extended economic development -- 5. Eastern condensed economic development -- 6. Corporations in economic development -- 7. A general theory of economic...

There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not...