Introduction -- Chapter 1 Structural changes of the Chinese economy: from the New Dream to Covid19 -- Chapter 2 Can China be less dependent on exports? -- Chapter 3 Chinese innovation capacity: state of the art of the leading edge -- Chapter 4 Chinese diplomacy, strategic partnerships and global...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Tourism and Development: A Decade of Change -- Part 1: Tourism and Development: Conceptual Perspectives -- 1. Tourism: A Vehicle for Development? / Sharpley, Richard -- 2. The Evolution of Development Theory and Tourism / Telfer, David J....

Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Introduction and Overview -- Part I: Macroeconomic Accounts, Market Structure, and Behavioral Functions -- Chapter 1. Economic Structure and Aggregate Accounts -- Chapter 2. Behavioral Functions -- Part II: Financial Policies -- Chapter...

An important study of the relationship between technology, skills, and economic inequality that answers some of the most pressing economic questions of our time Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere—in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s...

Parker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives-cultural, economic, political, and religious-philosophical-and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Editorial Pro-Poor Tourism: Do ‘Tourism Exchanges Benefit Primarily the Countries of the South’? / Hall, C. Michael -- 2. Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: An Integrative Research Framework / Zhao, Weibing / Brent Ritchie, J. R. -- 3. Tourism as a Tool for...

This book offers a fresh perspective on the role of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in development. Alan M. Rugman and Jonathan P. Doh challenge traditional assumptions about economic development and address the controversies that surround MNEs. For example, how do foreign multinationals affect...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface / Gusmao, Xanana -- Preface / Belo, Carlos -- Preface / Ramos Horta, José -- Preface -- PART I: Introduction -- 1. The Key Issues / Hill, Hal / Saldanha, João M....