"This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both an engaging, broadly focused introduction to...

Introduction : the attributes of the crisis / David Bailey, Dan Coffey, Philip R. Tomlinson -- The workings of the Japanese economy / Donald W. Katzner -- The cause of Japan's recession and the lessons for the world / Richard A. Werner -- Transnational monopoly capitalism, the J-mode firm and...

"India initiated liberal economic reforms in 1991 to transform a slow-growing, large, inward-oriented, state-led economy into an open, market-led, export-oriented industrialising economy, seeking to emulate the East Asian success story. After nearly three decades, however, the outcomes are...

"Taking South Africa as an important case study of the challenges of structural transformation, the book offers a new micro-meso level framework and evidence linking country-specific and global dynamics of change, with a focus on the current challenges and opportunities faced by middle-income...

Energy policies play a pivotal part in helping countries achieve their sustainable development goals. Further, energy is one of the critical raw materials in companies’ production processes. Therefore, ensuring a steady energy supply is essential to increasing production; otherwise, countries...

Learning, industrial, and technology polices : an overview / Akbar Noman and Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Theoretical and conceptual foundations -- Industrial policies in learning economies / Mario Cimoli, Giovanni Dosi and Joseph Stiglitz -- Dynamic efficiency : structural dynamics and economic growth...

Part I: Global Value Chains Foundations and empirical facts in Latin America -- Chapter 1. Global value chains evolution in Latin America -- Chapter 2: Latin American economies in Global value chains: Main evidence -- Chapter 3: Global Value Chains: Production and Innovation Clusters -- Part II:...

Taking South Africa as an important case study of the challenges of structural transformation, the book offers a new micro-meso level framework and evidence linking country-specific and global dynamics of change, with a focus on the current challenges and opportunities faced by middle-income...