Intro -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. China's Path Towards New Growth: Drivers of Human Capital, Innovation and Technological Change -- Part I: Reform and Macroeconomic Development -- 2. Reform Dividends to Sustain China's Economic Growth -- 3....

Fit for Growth: A Guide to Strategic Cost Cutting, Restructuring, and Renewal -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction and Fit for Growth Overview -- Chapter 1: Do You Need to Cut to Grow? -- Circuit City: The Ostrich Approach -- IKEA: Elevating Cost Optimization to an Art Form -- The Fit...

Suffocating smog regularly envelops Chinese metropolises from Beijing to Shanghai, clouding the future prospect of China's growth sustainability. Air pollutants do not discriminate between the rich and the poor, the politician and the “average Joe." They put everyone's health and economic...

In terms accessible to non-economists, Marcos José Mendes describes the ways democracy and inequality produce low growth in the short and medium terms. In the longer term, he argues that Brazil has two paths in front of it. One is to create the conditions necessary to boost economic performance...

In this book Ian Goldin shows how the understanding of how nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has changed as the pendulum has swung from arguments for state-led development to a preoccupation with market forces.

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. China's New Sources of Economic Growth: A supply-side perspective -- Part I: Reform and Macroeconomic Development -- 2. Mostly Slow Progress on the New Model of Growth -- 3. New Urbanisation as a...

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Part I: Setting the Stage: The Quest for Resilience and Growth in the Pacific Islands -- 1 Economic Growth in the Pacific Island Countries-Challenges, Constraints, and Policy Responses -- 2 Raising Potential Growth...

Front Cover -- Economic Imbalances and Institutional Changes to the Euro and the European Union -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Economic Imbalances and Institutional Changes to the Euro and the European Union -- Introduction -- Part I: Institutional and Political Issues...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chronology of Main Events -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 China's Challenge to the Global Economic Order -- The Systemic Challenge -- Global Implications -- A New Approach -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 China Debates Its Future -- Role of Policy Intellectuals -- Current...