Chapter 1: Innovation: engine of economic growth (and employment) -- Chapter 2: The technological revolution: The rise of machines -- Chapter 3: The technological revolution: professions at risk and new jobs -- Chapter 4: Constraints to economic growth: Sustainability, happiness and other issues...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Japan’s catching up process -- Chapter 3: South Korea’s catching up process -- Chapter 4: Chapter 4: The Rise of China -- Chapter 5: The development paths and strategies of Japan, South Korea, and China – A Comparison -- Chapter 6: Chapter 6: Current...

Chapter 1. GTEC Service, Consulting and Training -- Chapter 2. The Purchasing Manager’s Challenges in Asia -- Chapter 3. Asian Supplier Productivity Diagnosis -- Chapter 4. Supplier Development in Asia in 5 Steps -- Chapter 5. The Purchasing Organization of The Future -- Chapter 6. Cost Break...

Chapter 1. Mao Zedong and the Preconditions for the Butterfly Effect -- Chapter 2. Deng Xiaoping Triggered off the Butterfly Effect -- Chapter 3. Confucius as Cultural Capital in Sustaining the Butterfly Effect -- Chapter 4. Spread Education and Devouring Global Knowledge -- Chapter 5. Economic...

This book examines failure in the urbanisation of Northwest China as a result of government industrial policies that have impacted on the economic development of the region. By looking at the under-researched provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Inner Mongolia, which make up a quarter of China's...

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...

‘This is essential reading for anybody interested in global history.’ -Professor Ugo Panizza, The Graduate Institute of Geneva, Switzerland This illuminating book offers a compact survey and new interpretation of trends and policies in the US economy from the end of the nineteenth century to...

Is democracy still the best political regime for countries to adapt to economic and technological pressures and increase their level of prosperity? While the West seems to have stagnated in an environment of political mistrust, increasing inequality and low growth, the rise of the East has shown...

Chapter1 Introduction -- Chapter2 China’s SOEs’ Efficiency Losses: A Survey -- Chapter3 Survival Predicament, Soft Budget Constraints and Economic Growth Cumbrance: Mechanism -- Chapter4 Financial Repression, Ownership Discrimination and Economic Growth Cumbrance: Mechanism -- Chapter5 SOEs,...