Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Highlights -- A New Index of the Quality of Growth -- Applying the Inclusive Green Growth Index -- Raising the Quality of Growth -- Putting the Inclusive Green...

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- List of Contributors -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction. Natural Resources and Underdevelopment in Cameroon: Untangling a Puzzle -- Natural resource endowment as both sides of the same coin -- Sharing from Africa's...

This book describes in a game-theoretical approach how the development success story Vietnam managed to keep rent seeking in check sufficiently to attract record numbers of foreign investors and exhibit strong economic growth in the early stages of its economic reforms. It concludes that...

This volume connects the evolving modern financial systems of China, Japan, and Korea to the development and growth of their economies through the first decade of the twenty-first century. It also identifies the commonalities among all three systems while taking into account their social,...

Despite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports....

The main underlying contradictions in Latin American development are exposed through a systemic analysis of "industrial colonialism." Figueroa's critical analysis of present imperialism and the neoliberal mode of knowledge creation provides fresh insights into contemporary underdevelopment and...

In his new book, Poverty and Progress: Realities and Myths about Global Poverty, renowned development economist Deepak Lal draws on 50 years of experience around the globe to describe developing-country realities and rectify misguided notions about economic progress. Unique among books that have...

This book, written entirely by faculty at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, provides a variety of practical and implementable perspectives on innovation for managers. In addition, the book contains chapters that provide reviews of the academic research on innovation...

China has enjoyed unprecedented high economic growth for three decades. This growth has however been unbalanced and has led to some serious consequences which Chinese policy makers are now trying to rectify. One of the consequences is the deterioration of regional disparity which is threatening...

Key Features:This book documents an in-depth study into the causes of existing structural deflationary economy in Japan and the resulting phenomenon of Japan's "Lost Two Decades"This book argues that distorted income distribution was the root cause of the long-term deflation in JapanThe book...