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The WTO, Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda : Prospects and Challenges for Trade-led Growth
Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb (ed.) - 2004
The "development credibility" of the current trade regime in general, and the WTO in particular, is at stake. The Doha Round aims to reverse the brewing scepticism by providing a reliable engine of trade-led growth and development. The essays in this volume identify the key challenges in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054110
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Small Developing Countries and Global Markets : Competing in the Big League
Kennes, Walter - 2000
More than half of the world's sovereign states are small economies. The majority are in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean Basin. For small economies, the globalization process involves opportunities, but also important risks because of their vulnerability and lack of diversification. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054281
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Leadership and the Liberal Arts : Achieving the Promise of a Liberal Education
Wren, J. Thomas (ed.); Riggio, Ronald E. (ed.);  … - 2009
A collection of essays by presidents of prominent liberal arts colleges and leading intellectuals who reflect on the meaning of educating individuals for leadership and how it can be accomplished in ways consistent with the missions of liberal arts institutions.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106282
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Trade and Technology Networks in the Chinese Textile Industry : Opening Up Before the Reform
Broggi, Carles Brasó - 2016
The aim of this book is to track the historical origins of China’s economic reforms. From the 1920s and 1930s strong …. Despite the fragmentation of China, the contribution of these networks to the modernization of the country was important and … trade routes inside China, these networks were concentrated in Shanghai where they envisaged an export-oriented development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396695
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The Political Economy of Neo-modernisation : Rethinking the Dynamics of Technology, Development and Inequality
Baek, Seung Jin - 2018
‘It is of great value to complement the limitations of contemporary mainstream economic growth discourse by exploiting the complex relations between technology, development, and inequality, while concurrently providing a better academic orientation in the era of the upcoming Industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396829
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Getting Globalization Right : Sustainability and Inclusive Growth in the Post Brexit Age
Paganetto, Luigi (ed.) - 2018
This book presents stimulating new perspectives on three key sets of issues: a fair globalization, the policies that might be adopted in response to protectionist pressures, and sustainable development policies involving G7 and G20 actions to lay the foundations for renewed trust. The individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396906
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Financial Exclusion
Carbó Valverde, Santiago; Molyneux, Philip; Gardener, … - 2005
This text is concerned with the increasingly important and problematic area of financial exclusion, broadly defined as the inability and/or reluctance of particular societal groups to access mainstream financial services. This has emerged as a major international policy issue. There is growing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054045
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Economic Analysis of Industrial Agglomeration
Wang, Jian - 2018
sectors. Chapter 5 empirically investigates the home market effect (HME) in terms of wages in the case of China by using panel … Dispersion: An Analytical Model -- 5 Home Market Effect: New Evidence from China -- 6 Conclusions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398053
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The Cost of Development in China
Hu, Guangyu - 2017
This book focuses on the future of China and its sustainable development, and summarizes the implications, forms … professionals. Combining China’s national situation and development characteristics with the country as a unit, it uses case studies …Part I Proposition of Development Cost in China -- Chapter I Learning and Practice of Scientific Outlook on Development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398223
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Demystifying China’s Economy Development
Cai, Fang - 2015
This book explains why China’s opening-up policy can boost the rapid growth of its economy. Based on concrete facts and … economic logic, it offers a brief introduction to the history of China’s successful development, which has unprecedentedly … author assesses the different stages of China’s economic development and new challenges, illustrating how the country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012402173