Energy policies play a pivotal part in helping countries achieve their sustainable development goals. Further, energy is one of the critical raw materials in companies’ production processes. Therefore, ensuring a steady energy supply is essential to increasing production; otherwise, countries...

This paper studies the role of public policy in promoting industrial transformation from an imitationbased, low-skill economy to an innovation-based, high-skill economy, where technological progress now occurs through the domestic invention of ideas. Industrial transformation is measured by...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: Macro-Meso Level of Analysis -- Chapter 2. An Overview of Industrial Catch-up Strategies -- Chapter 3. Driving Inclusive Growth in Post Industrial Catch-up Era of Korean Economy -- Chapter 4. Achieving Virtuous Cycle Development in Post Industrial Catch-up Era...

This book aims to explain the secret to China’s rapid growth over the last 40 years from the viewpoint of a firsthand witness. Zheng Xinli was enrolled as a graduate student of economics 40 years ago, at a time when very few Chinese people could enroll in higher-level education, let alone...

PART I. ECONOMY BASED ON RESOURCE SECTOR -- Chapter 1. Institutional reform in Kazakhstan -- Chapter 2. Oil and gas industry development -- Chapter 3. The effects of oil revenues on Kazakhstan’s economy -- PART II. KAZAKHSTAN: STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES -- Chapter 4. Infrastructure investment and...

Deutschlands Erfolgsrezept - Soziale Marktwirtschaft -- Chinas Weg von alter zu neuer Stärke - ein Abriss einer einzigartigen Transformation -- Deutschland versus China – verbindet die beiden Nationen mehr als sie trennt? -- Deutschland und China – Kulturen und wirtschaftlicher Erfolg --...

This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the...

Chapter 1 The Spreading of Stalin's Issues on The Socialist Economy in the Soviet Union in China in the 1950s and the Discussion on the Issue of Basic Economic Principles during the Transitional Period Triggered by Such Spreading -- Chapter 2 Exploration and Argument on the Relationship between...

Ghana's economic growth picked up in the early 2000s and has been exceptionally strong over the past few years, with price booms of its main commodity exports, gold and cocoa, and the initiation of commercial oil production in 2011. This paper examines recent econometric evidence on Ghana's...

This paper employs a simple cross-country panel framework to assess the determinants of growth in Ghana's gross domestic product over the past four decades. A set of standard covariates is used to explain growth rates. Natural resource variables are included because the effects of natural...