This book concentrates on knowledge workers, mainly editors, in the Chinese publishing industry. The book focuses on their changing social, economic, and political roles; their dilemmas, challenges, and opportunities associated with current social reform; and China's integration into the global...

Intro -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. 40 years of China's reform and development: How reform captured China's demographic dividend -- Part I: The Chinese economic transformation -- 2. 40 years of Chinese economic reform and...

The phrase 'New Normal' captures the ongoing shift in the pattern and drivers of China's economic growth. China's new growth rate is both slower and imposing difficult structural change. These new economic conditions are challenging yet offer opportunities for China and its economic partners....

The political and economic transformation now emerging in Latin America, as some countries eschew rigid ideologies and adopt a more pragmatic combination of neoclassical orthodoxies and progressive social policies.

An expert guide to Cuba's economic opening to the outside world. Ninety miles across the Straits of Florida, an exciting new revolution is afoot. This time, instead of guerillas marching down the streets of Havana, it is a global economy that will upend Cuba. Now opening to the world, what new...

This ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues of cultural borrowing, educated Russians searched for Western nations, ideas, and social groups...

Structural transformation depends not only on how much countries export but also on what they export and with whom they trade. This paper breaks new ground in analyzing India's exports by the technological content, quality, sophistication, and complexity of the export basket. We identify five...

Clifford Gaddy's and Barry Ickes' paradigm of the "virtual economy" has fundamentally changed the way people think about Russia's economy. Circulated at the highest levels of the Russian and U.S. governments and reported in leading publications worldwide, their thesis--that Russia's economy is...

Cover -- Half title page -- The International Labour Organization -- Title page -- Copyright information -- CONTENTS -- List of Tables -- 1.1 Key features of tripartism in the countries under study -- 1.2 Union density and bargaining coverage in the mid-1990s -- 1.3 Impact of tripartism on...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Keynote addresses -- China: Moving towards the twenty-first century -- Rong Yiren -- China in the twenty-first century -- Helmut Schmidt -- I Economy -- 1 History, politics, and the sources of economic growth: China and the East Asian way of growth -- Dwight H....