1. The history of IBSA : first steps -- 2. Towards institutionalization -- 3. IBSA's institutional structure -- 4. Does IBSA matter? -- 5. The politics of South-South cooperation : towards a new paradigm? -- 6. IBSA : rising democracy promoters? -- 7. Conclusion.

China's economic emergence : possible lessons for large developing nations / David Daokui Li -- History, politics and 30 years of development and reform / Dwight Perkins -- Chinese reforms in historical and comparative perspective / Prasenjit Duara -- Thirty years of Chinese reform and economic...

1. Possession and ownership : use of goods versus economic activity -- 2. The blindness of the great schools of economics towards ownership -- 3. The economic core of the ownership system : interest, money and property assets -- 4. The market as the result of the ownership-based economy -- 5....

section I. Financing the growth -- section II. Competing models : the Gulf Arab states and Iran -- section III. Labor constraints and migration issues -- section IV. The role of women in industrialization -- section V. Gulf industrialization in perspective.

1. Economic transition -- 2. Liberalization -- 3. Privatization in the non-agricultural sectors -- 4. Agriculture -- 5. Direct foreign investment -- 6. Macroeconomic stabilization -- 7. Dmitri Medvedev : thoughts on the economy -- 8. Economic performance.

1. Economics of transition in the new century : lessons learned and a future outlook -- 2. Fiscal policy in the newly opened economies : are there twin deficits? -- 3. Fiscal policy sustainability in transition : is it there? -- 4. Innovative fiscal policy : the how, when and why of borrowing...