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in Europe since the nineteenth century. This important contribution to current discussions on theories of economic growth …
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facilitate the transfer of labour from the agriculture sector? The book identifies the major constraints that result in limited …
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of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well … identified. They are: (1) labor-intensive industrialization, which offers ample employment opportunities for labor force; (2 …1 Multiple Paths to Industrialization: A Global Context of the Rise of Emerging States (Kaoru Sugihara) -- 2 Technology …
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This book examines how to promote industrial development in low-income countries. It considers the role of traders in the evolution of a cluster, the role of managerial human capital, the effect of the 'China shock', and the role of industrial policies focused on international knowledge transfer...
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Industry has been at the centre of some of the most formidable political and economic debates of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores the pivotal decades of the eighteenth-century in which the modern concept of industry was, for the first time, at the heart of...
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Much has been written about the wealth of nations, the history of unequal distribution and zones of affluence and deprivation within and between societies. This book explores why some Asian nations are more prosperous than others through an examination of how their interaction with and...
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Africa from the Asian experience; secondly, the comparisons of various aspects of economic development in Africa and Asia …
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1970s, and one in which Europe has managed to strengthen its competitiveness in the world market. While many aspects of …
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This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal … characteristics, going beyond the usual West/non-West dichotomy. The “regional trade zone of modern Asia” was debated in the 1980s …. Since then, Japanese historians of the socioeconomic history of Asia have explored how the traditional trade relations that …
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The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which includes Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia, is a new but substantial regional organization. Significant achievements include a common external customs tariff, a customs union and a common labour market: a well-developed institutional...
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