China's change to a new model of growth, now called the 'new normal', was always going to be hard. Events over the past year show how hard it is. The attempts to moderate the extremes of high investment and low consumption, the correction of overcapacity in the heavy industries that were the...

Klappentext: This edited volume explores and dissects Africa's economic growth and sustainable development using an optimal conceptual model of the progressive continent's development up to and until 2030. Africa is studied not against the background of developed (OECD) and leading developing...

In "Common Wealth", Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller "The End of Poverty" offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and...