The economic growth of China is clearly one of the defining trends of our time. The world's most populous nation is undergoing a vast transformation that will redefine the global economy. Chinese industrial production has increased tremendously in recent years, and its consumption of resources...

Intro -- Foreword by Terry Smith -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I. The End of an Era -- Chapter 1. An Economy That Has Run Out of Road -- Chapter 2. How the Economy Really Works -- Part II. The Real Economy -- Chapter 3. The Energy Economy -- Chapter 4. The Great...

This book is a collection of working papers, policy briefs and training modules, published by the International Poverty Centre in Brazil, which provides a comprehensives set of recommendations for alternative economic policies that can generate growth, employment and poverty reduction in...

Since the 2008 economic crisis, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have faced serious financial problems and have been looking to financial institutions and governments for solutions and new proposals to address these issues. This book examines the new challenge in which firms receive...

In this paper, the correlation between unemployment rate and real output for OECD countries was analyzed through the application of Okun's Law and unemployment hysteresis 2007-2022. For this purpose, panel error correction, panel cointegration, ARDL Bounds Test and Granger causality techniques...

This timely study examines the impact of policies on growth, employment and poverty reduction in Indonesia, reviewing the periods both before and after the 1997 financial crisis and drawing important implications for today's policy-makers