1. Introduction -- 2. Quality of institutions and the macro-return to education: The case of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) -- 3. Short and Long Run Causality Between Remittances and Economic Growth in MENA Countries: A Panel ARDL Approach -- 4.Asymmetric impact of oil price shocks on...

This book compares the experiences of the Philippines and Vietnam to gain insight into how openness to trade and financing can increase prosperity. In contrast, theoretical and empirical work in the 20th and early 21st centuries have returned mixed results regarding this assertion. The book also...

This proceedings volume highlights important points of achieving a balanced and sustained growth path from diverse economics and finance perspectives, touching on a wide array of economic and social analyses in India. Featuring contributions presented at the 2018 International Conference on...

The book follows a first edition published in 1989, which focused on the severe economic crisis Ghana faced during the late 1970s and the early 1980s. In this second edition, the authors extend the review up to the mid-2010s, covering the entire period since independence, with a special focus on...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Towards an Inequality-Sensitive Measure of Development: The Unidimensional Case -- Chapter 3: Unidimensional Development Ranking and Fuzzy Lorenz Dominance -- Chapter 4: Illustrative Applications of Unidimensional Development Indices -- Chapter 5:...

1. The Market Economy in China’s Reform -- 2. Countries on the Way to Power: The Rise of Great Powers -- 3. Economics and the Rise of China’s Economy -- 4. Inflation and Asset Bubbles from Unsustainable Growth Patterns -- 5. “The Man Who Does Not Think Far Ahead Will Have Troubles Near at...

Chapter 1: Pathways to reframing the Roman economy: from uniformity to diversity? -- Part I Unusual actors, attitudes and perspectives -- Chapter 2: Textile economy in the Veneto Region (North-Eastern Italy): a textile tools oriented spatial approach -- Chapter 3: Craftsmen and shopkeepers...

1 Introduction -- 2 Comparisons of Chinese and Japanese Development Process from Economic and Politico-economic Perspectives -- 3 Trade, FDI and Economic Growth -- 4 Digital China: The Fourth Industrial Revolution with Chinese Characteristics -- 5 Agricultural Development in China: Comparison...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 China from 1949 to 1977 -- Chapter 3 Economic Reform, the 1st phase -- Chapter 4 Eve of Socialist Market Economy: The 2nd-Phase Reform -- Chapter 5 New Century, New Economy -- Chapter 6 Conclusion.