Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 How Fast Can China Grow? -- 3 Provincial Growth Dynamics -- 4 The Growth-Financial Development Nexus -- 5 Foreign Direct Investment in China: Some Lessons for Other Countries -- 6 Foreign Direct Investment and...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Trade improves the lives of women -- The changing nature of trade creates new opportunities for women -- Better policies can help women overcome the challenges of trade and maximize its...

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: May You Live in Interesting Times -- Unconditional Economic Engagement: Motives for WTO Membership -- Communist China's Post-WTO Economic Transformation -- The Triumph of Mercantilist China -- China's Global Impact: Turning the World Upside Down --...

Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Part I: The Great Divergence and Japan So Far -- Chapter 2: The Great Divergence Debate -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Explaining the Great Divergence -- 3.1 Resources, Trade, and Globalisation -- 3.2 Institutions and the Market -- 3.3...

This book is a collection of essays written by Ambassador, Professor Joergen Oerstroem Moeller from the middle of 2009 to end of 2012, commenting on global economic and political events, which reflect Moeller's judgment and evaluation on these issues.Readers get an overview to the collection of...

Key Features:This is an extended version of From Adam Smith to Michael Porter and covers the progress of competitiveness theories dealing with their original concepts and debates on themThe authors' latest theories, such as the dual double diamond, the strategic methodology, MASI (Measure,...

In Trading Communities, Taco Terpstra shows that long-distance trade in the Roman Empire was conducted through foreign trading communities living overseas, held together by ethnic and geographical identity.