Starting in the 1980s, China’s economic growth has been characterized by a rapid acceleration. Even though the Asian financial crisis caused China’s growth to decelerate somewhat, the very high growth rates that picked up again in 2000 have more than doubled per-capita income and total GDP...

1 Introduction -- 2 Comparisons of Chinese and Japanese Development Process from Economic and Politico-economic Perspectives -- 3 Trade, FDI and Economic Growth -- 4 Digital China: The Fourth Industrial Revolution with Chinese Characteristics -- 5 Agricultural Development in China: Comparison...

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...

The political and economic transformation now emerging in Latin America, as some countries eschew rigid ideologies and adopt a more pragmatic combination of neoclassical orthodoxies and progressive social policies.