The uninterrupted flow of oil is essential to globalisation and increasingly so as manufacturing and markets move Eastwards to Asia. All too often the movement of oil by ocean is something taken for granted, yet it is fraught with difficulty. This book looks at the way oil is moved and consumed...

Preliminary -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Part I: New Model for Economic Growth -- 1. Reform and China's Long-Term Growth and Development -- 2. China's Shift from the Demographic Dividend to the Reform Dividend -- 3. Structural Imbalance, Inequality and Economic Growth...

GROWING POPULATIONS, CHANGING LANDSCAPES -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- STUDY REGIONS -- PROJECT DESIGN AND FINDINGS -- CONCLUSION -- PART I Population and Land Use in India, China, and the United States: Context, Observations, and Findings -- 1...

FrontMatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I INTRODUCTION -- Software and the New Economy -- II PROCEEDINGS -- Introduction--Dale W. Jorgenson -- The Economics of Software--William J. Raduchel -- Panel I - The Role of Software - What Does Software Do? -- Panel II - How Do We Make Software and Why Is...

FrontMatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- Overview of the Findings and Recommendations -- I INTRODUCTION -- The Emergence of the New Economy--Dale W. Jorgenson -- II FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Findings and Recommendations -- III SUMMARY OF THE NRC CONFERENCES ON THE NEW...

Intro -- Contents -- Tables, Maps, and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1: National Context -- 2 The Operating System of Spatial Transformation -- 3 Maoist Plan-Ideological Space -- 4 Post-Mao Market-Regulatory Space -- Part 2: Development of the Pearl River Delta...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: An Invention of My Own -- 1 The White Knight Avoided: Economic Reforms and Innovation for Growth in China -- 2 Rules of the Run: The Politics of China's Institutions of Innovation -- 3 Beijing -- 4 Shanghai -- 5...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Stevan Harrell -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Liangshan and Its Entrepreneurs -- 1 | Nuosu Traditional Culture and Social Change -- 2 | The Liangshan Economic Setting and Private Entrepreneurs -- 3 | Private Sector Development in Nine Liangshan Counties -- 4...

This book examines the Chinese model of modern development, reflecting on the historical experience of China's reform, and highlighting theoretical issues that are crucial for understanding the reform in its historical and global contexts