1. Crossing Borders in South and Southeast Asia: Assessing Existing Problems through a New Lens -- 2. Addressing Urban Poverty through Empowerment and Inclusion in India -- 3. Development Efforts toward Ecological Sustainability in Calcutta: Transformation of a Metropolis -- 4. De facto State...

Chapter 1. A Bird’s-eye View of the Economy and Economics -- Chapter 2. What a Creative Economy Is and How It Works -- Chapter 3. Creativity and Intellectual Property -- Chapter 4. Innovation Environment -- Chapter 5. Microeconomic Aspects of Innovation -- Chapter 6. Looking to the Near Future...

What Do We Mean by "the Future"? -- Risk and Uncertainty -- Values and the Future -- Why Do We Want to Know the Future? -- Prediction and Planning -- Seeing the Future: Ideas from Philosophy, Linguistics, and Sociology -- Complexity and the Future -- Analytics and the Future -- Imagination and...

1. China and its New Position in the World Economy -- 2.China's Economic Growth and its Main Sources -- 3. The Growing Importance of China in Global Trade -- 4. FDI as a Driving Force of China's Expansion -- 5. The Importance of the Energy Sector in China's Growth Strategy -- Quo Vadis China

1. Introduction -- 2. Analysis of Dynamic Mechanism of Economic Growth in Large Developed Countries -- 3. Assessment of the Quality of Economic Growth in Brics Countries -- 4. Economic Growth and Transformation Path of the Brics Countries -- 5. Shared Growth of Foreign Trade of the Brics...

Chapter 1 Current trends and features of outbound investment worldwide -- Chapter 2 Current Trends and Features of China’s OFDI -- Chapter 3 Problems Faced by Globalizing Chinese Enterprises and Proposed Solutions.

Chapter 1 Understanding China’s strategic public management -- Chapter 2The New Public Management comes to China -- Chapter 3Putting people first: the implementation of rebalancing policies -- Chapter 4The modernization of the political system -- Chapter 5China: the new super power --...

Preface -- 1. Innovation Beyond Technology – Introduction -- 2. Reimagining Innovation -- 3. 'Innovation’ as an adaptation of ‘Progress’: Revisiting the epistemological and historical contexts of these terms -- 4. The Light and Shadow of the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- 5. How...

SECTION I: ICT, Digital Divide and Development -- Economics of ICT, Digital Divide and Development – Some Emerging Issues -- ICT and Wellbeing: A Cross Country Analysis -- Digital Divide: How India and China Stack up? -- Evolution of Inter-state disparities in the use of ICT: A study of Indian...