This book introduces 10 mega business trends, ranging from big data to the O2O model. By mining and analyzing mountains of data, the author identifies these 10 emerging trends and goes to great lengths to explain and support his views with up-to-date cases. By incorporating the latest...

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...

Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Question of Africa’s Economic Sectors and Development -- Part 2: Agriculture Sector -- Chapter 2: The African Cotton Sector: Old and New Conundrums -- Chapter 3: The Political Economy of Fisheries Reform in Senegal -- Chapter 4: Are large scale land...

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Revelation: State Capacity and Economic Development -- Chapter 2 Foundation Laying: From Old China to New China -- Chapter 3 Exploration: From New China’s First 30 Years to Next 40 Years -- Chapter 4 Adjust and Control: From Planning to Programming -- Chapter 5...

Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China’s managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s. Using recently-opened online archival...

Introduction to Globalization and Development - Economic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives from Emerging Markets -- An Overview: Globalization Development Within the Group of Twenty (G20) as Indicated by Globalization and Innovation Indices -- Globalization and the Informal Economy in Developing...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Major Contributions -- 3. The First Phase: Thoughts on Socialist Development in a Backward Overpopulated Economy -- 4. The Second Phase: a 'Starry-Eyed Joan Robinson' -- 5. The Third Phase: Self-Criticism -- 6. Conclusion.

Introduction -- Section 1: India's Industrial Growth: Opportunities and Challenges -- India’s industrial development including manufacturing, construction, and mining -- Manufacturing vs. Services -- Global value chains -- Industrial development and climate change -- Section 2: Role of Trade...

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. Introduction -- 2. The Kamakura Period (1185AD-1333AD) -- 3. The Muromachi Period (1333AD-1568AD) & Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568AD-1600AD) -- 4. The Tokugawa Period (1600AD-1868AD) -- 5. The Meiji Period (1868AD-1912AD) -- 6. The Taisho Period (1912AD-1926AD) -- 7. The Showa Period...