Cover -- Contents -- Highlights -- The economic setting -- Country updates -- Policy briefs Long-run growth forecasts for Asia: Opportunities and challenges for the Pacific economies -- Fiscal management challenges in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste -- Update on fiscal modeling efforts in the...

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Turn to the Market -- 1 The Triumph of the Market -- 2 Business Moves: Markets, Nations, and Inequality -- 3 Disposable Workers -- 4 The Low-Wage, Low-Skill Strategy -- Part II: The Path Upward? -- 5 Education: Choice, Profit, and...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Why This Study? -- Key Results -- Outline of the Report -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Stylized Facts -- Overview of...

Cover -- Support Acknowledgments -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Background Facts -- Chapter Two: The Broad-Based Rise in the Return to Top Talent -- Chapter Three: The Economic Determinants of Top...

Onyeiwu focuses on how events of the twenty-first century are shaping key sectors of African economies and societies. He suggests that, compared to East Asia and Latin America, Africa still has a long way to go, despite recent improvements in performance

Preface -- Eurasia Business and Economics Society -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part I: Banking and Finance -- Estimation of Efficiency Change in the Czech Banking Sector Employing the Window Malmquist Approach -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Methodology and Data -- 3.1...