This book follows up on the author’s popular previous volume on Indian development planning and policy, published under the UNU WIDER series in development economics. It first introduces an evaluation of the newly mandated policy body of India, National Institution for Transforming India (also...

This book explores how better governance can help Africa to achieve structural transformation (understood to be the reallocation of factors of production across and within sectors to better support inclusive development), which history has shown to be key to sustained, inclusive growth. The book...

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...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Governance, Rent-seeking and Upgrading in Global Value Chains -- Part I: Interdisciplinary Theoretical Contributions – Framing The Debate -- Chapter 2. Contemporary Globalization and Value Systems: What Gains for Developing Countries? -- Chapter 3. Global Value Chains...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The License Giver Business Concept -- Chapter 3: The Intrinsic-Motivated Crowd -- Chapter 4: The Fear of Innovation -- Chapter 5: The Not-Invented-Here Syndrome -- Chapter 6: The Rise and Decline of Innovative Capability -- Chapter 7: The License Giver...

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...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Discovering Steam Power in China, 1828-1865 -- Chapter 3: Translating Heat: Tackling Old conceptions with new ideas, 1855-1868 -- Chapter 4: More Translations, Limited Understanding: the Achievements and Constraints of Late Qing Translations of Heat,...

Digital Twins in the Industry: Maturity, Functions, Effects -- Architecting Digital Twin-Driven Transformation in the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Sector -- Practical Application of the Concept of Digital Twins in the Aviation Sector -- Digital Revolution in the Energy Sector: Effects of...

Chapter 1: A Batch Scheduling Model for a Three-Stage Flowshop With Batch Processor and Heterogeneous Job Processor to Minimize Total Actual Flowtime -- Chapter 2: Batch scheduling of unique and common components for a three-stage hybrid flow shop processing different product types with multiple...

The Evaluation System of Publishing Industry's Competitiveness in Overseas Market -- Economic research on regional poverty alleviation and prevention of return to poverty -- Sustainable Performance of Rural Banking: A Heterogeneity Study in the Coastal Regions of China -- Research of New Energy...