This volume explores the recent impressive economic growth in Ukraine from a regional and international perspective. In doing so, it looks at the extent to which economic reform, a positive international economic climate and the devaluation of the Hryvnia in 1998/99, have contributed to economic...

Technological Transformation -- Technology and Economic Growth -- Structure and Transformation -- Emerging Industries Under Globalization -- Industrial Transformation and Reconstruction -- China's High-Tech Industry and Global Industrial -- Challenges Faced by China's High-Tech Industry --...

The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time,...

Introduction -- SESSION 1 Green Growth of the Economy -- 1 Green Growth: Constructing a Resource-saving and Environment-friendly Production Pattern -- 2 Green Growth of the Primary Industry -- 3 Green Growth of the Secondary Industry -- 4 Green Growth of the Tertiary Industry -- 5 Measurement...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Rethinking Capitalism: An Introduction -- Capitalism and its discontents -- Rethinking economic policy -- Beyond market failure: towards a new approach -- Notes -- 2. The Failure of...

This book finds that the R&D and technological innovation of a country is not a result, but a factor, of sustained economic growth. Bazhal develops Schumpeter's theory to argue that genuine economic growth - especially in transitioning and developing countries - is only possible with innovation....