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measure of the quality of the business formation process in 120 of the most important countries in the world. The authors …

This book investigates dynamic regions in the context of greater global interaction in a world economy increasingly … patterns of world growth and development, competitiveness, inequalities, and convergence? What development strategies should be … promoted at national and international levels to promote a growing and more sustainable world economy? What are the …

1 The Chinese Birdcage -- 2 Western Triumphalism -- 3 China as the World's Factory -- 4 Housing Bubbles across the … 1980s, China quickly became the world’s factory floor...but powerful political leaders envisioned a world in which the … market economy would be trapped within the confines of a planned economy. With China’s admission into the World Trade …

Following the launch in China of economic reforms and the 'open door policy', a new era of economic growth and global … integration dawned. In 2008, the thirtieth anniversary year, China completes three decades of broad-based market …-oriented macroeconomic reforms and restructuring. This book traces China's economic renaissance …

This volume contains essays from outsourcing experts that explore the current state China. The essays cover everything … from China's rapidly increasing demand for imported energy to global warming to the question of whether China is or is not … rapidly becoming a world class power in military, economic, and 'soft power' terms. …