"The book is a key reading which provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the contemporary Asian economy. The book focuses on the structural changes that are rapidly transforming the regional economic landscape in the 21st century. It highlights the concomitant challenges that have...

The One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative is a historical landmark which intends to connect more than two-thirds of the world population and opening up the windows for reviving global business, peace and infrastructural development across the countries. The main purpose of this paper is to discuss...

1. Introduction -- 2. Economics Policies, Paradigm Shifts and their Implications -- 3. Economic Development and the Belt and Road Initiative -- 4. Regional Integration, Trade and the Belt and Road Initiative -- 5. The Development of Infrastructure and Economic Growth -- 6. Projects of the Belt...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Changing International Financial System -- 3. International Economic Growth -- 4. The Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on China's Domestic Economy -- 5. Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on the Domestic Economies of Participating Countries -- 6. Effects of...

Initiated under the Presidency of Xi Jinping in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is still a young, yet a fast-developing and most ambitious regionalist project. Despite BRI's great potential to shape international trade and - more broadly - international relations amongst participating...