In September 2020, China announced that it would peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060. How and whether it can achieve the target is a matter of great concern to the international community. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive analysis of the...

The present research aims to analyze two archetypal 20th century development strategy cases: Brazil's and South Korea's. During the last century, both countries had been experiencing catching up processes, but by the 1980's Brazil started to lag behind while South Korea began to technologically...