Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Rethinking Innovation -- 1 Poverty, Invisibility, and Innovation -- 2 Behaviourally Informed Innovation -- 3 Appropriate Technologies for the Global South -- 4 Globalization of Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Implications for Poor-Market Diseases --...

The world is upside down. The emerging market countries are more important than many investors realise. They have been catching up with the West over the past few decades. Greater market freedom has spread since the end of the Cold War, and with it institutional changes which have further...

This volume focuses on the labour market situation, trends and regulations in emerging economies, devoting attention to how they have dealt with both short-term issues, namely the global financial crisis, and longer-term structural challenges - as well as the gaps that still remain.

Effective information and knowledge resource management is a driver of competiveness. Many developing countries have put mechanisms in place that seek to match knowledge-based economies, where information has become the fuel for responsiveness, innovation, and competition. Concepts and Advances...

Key Features:Shows the transformation the newest members of ASEAN (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Laos) and the newest members of EU (ten new Members from Baltic, Central and Eastern Balkan regions) have experienced during the last two decades (1990-2010)Uses a common theoretical framework based on...

Intro -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- 1. External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe, and Brazil -- 2. Belindia Goes to Washington: The Brazilian Economy after the Reforms -- 3. External Liberalization, Growth, and Distribution in China -- 4. Opening Up the Hungarian...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Assessing Emerging Markets: Country Competitiveness and Industrial Environment -- 2. Facing Regulatory Environments in Emerging Markets: Shifts of Inbound FDI Policies -- 3. Dealing with Emerging Market Governments: Relationship Building and Development -- 4....

The Politics of Labor in a Global Age analyses and compares changing patterns of labour relations in late-industrializing and post-socialist economies. The volume features original and timely essays on the distinctive responses to common economic pressures associated with globalization as...

Corporate governance reform has become an important global policy agenda driven by events such as the 1997 Asian financial crisis, corporate scandals (such as Enron and WorldCom) and the globalisation of capital markets. This book advances debate on corporate governance, accountability and...

Capital mobility is a double-edged sword for emerging economies, as governments must weigh the benefits of investment against the potential economic costs and political consequences of currency crises, devaluations, and instability. Financial Markets Volatility and Performance in Emerging...