Chapter 1: Challenges and Opportunities of Sri Lanka’s Post Conflict Economic Development – Overview -- Part I: Policies, regulations, and governance for smart growth -- Chapter 2: Incentives, efficiency and competitiveness for balanced growth -- Chapter 3: Governance, institutions, and...

1 Introduction -- 2 Early Globalization: Arguments and Evidence -- 3 Harbingers of Modernity: an Iberian perspective -- 4 Silver production, prices and globalization in the eighteenth century -- 5 The Austrian mining industry and the Iberian globalization -- 6 The Manila Galleon and the Age of...

Mit fortschreitender Globalisierung nimmt die Bedeutung internationaler Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zu. In diesem Buch werden deren Grundlagen in vier größeren Themenblöcken vorgestellt. In der Außenhandelstheorie wird gezeigt, inwiefern Freihandel für ein ganzes Land von Vorteil sein kann, und...

Chapter 1. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): The South-South Cooperation (SSC) with Chinese Characteristics -- Chapter 2. The Belt and Road Initiative: China’s New Role in Geopolitics and Security Issue -- Chapter 3. The BRI and its Economic Corridors: Opportunities for Development --...

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: 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...

Von Abwehrzoll über Freihandelszone bis zu TTIP: Begriffe zum Thema Außenhandel zeichnen sich durch unzählige Fachtermini und Abkürzungen aus. Das vorliegende Nachschlagewerk eignet sich für den ersten schnellen Überblick. In 440 übersichtlichen Schlüsselbegriffen werden unter anderem...

This book examines whether India is successfully integrating and adapting to the global strategic management system. It offers essential insights into the evolution of export controls for goods, which may have implications for the development of Weapons of Mass Destruction - an aspect that is...

Addressing the unprecedented international interest in China’s high-speed railways, this book adopts a global perspective to examine the success of the system and probes into its going-global strategy in the context of the “Belt and Road” initiative, providing readers around the world a...

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the world of consumption, covering different topics and including sociological, economic and marketing aspects. The term ‘consumption’ is vague and even in academic disciplines the term is used in a variety of ways. Consumption research asks...