The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine analyses the reasons for the abysmal economic performance of Ukraine during the 1990s. The main thesis is that economic development was blocked by a set of parasitic mechanisms at all levels of the economy that prevented the development of value-added...

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the on-going Greek debt crisis. It identifies and explains Greece’s idiosyncratic weaknesses, and highlights the existing rigidities in the EU architecture that make the recovery prospects of the Greek economy challenging. Chapters from expert...

Provides a comprehensive analysis of why reforms in Latin America have failed in achieving growth and equity. The book focuses on three strategic areas of reforms of the Washington Consensus: Macroeconomics, Trade and Finance

This book follows up on the author’s popular previous volume on Indian development planning and policy, published under the UNU WIDER series in development economics. It first introduces an evaluation of the newly mandated policy body of India, National Institution for Transforming India (also...

This book aims to explain the secret to China’s rapid growth over the last 40 years from the viewpoint of a firsthand witness. Zheng Xinli was enrolled as a graduate student of economics 40 years ago, at a time when very few Chinese people could enroll in higher-level education, let alone...

Introduction -- The Impact of Outward-Oriented Economic Reform on Income Inequality in China: 1978 – 2007 -- The continuity and changes of the hukou system since the 1990s: a critical review -- Land Reform, urban development and Migrant Housing in Contemporary China -- The Urban Village of...

This edited collection provides a thorough historical, statistical, and institutional description of the current Brazilian economy and the previous economic structure from which it is emerging. The contributions explore the institutional economic and cultural forces shaping the current...

Preface -- Foreword -- PART I: The China Model of Economic Reform and Opening -- A Theory of Transition Economics -- Economic Transition and Theoretical Innovations -- Evolutionary Market-Oriented Reform in China -- Understanding the Establishment of Market Order -- The Reform of the...

1. Genesis of a pivotal decade; Honghua Men and Steve Tsang -- 2. Consolidating political and governance strength; Steve Tsang -- 3. Enhancing credibility and transparency through judicial reforms; Lifeng Wang -- 4. The logic and limits of the Party's social management approach in maintaining...

1 The Chinese Birdcage -- 2 Western Triumphalism -- 3 China as the World's Factory -- 4 Housing Bubbles across the Western Hemisphere -- 5 The Global Financial Crisis -- 6 The Economic Fallout -- 7 Unlimited Supplies of Labor -- 8 China's Economic Development -- 9 Global Imbalances and Corporate...