Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

This book provides a detailed investigation into the decline in wages and employment of less skilled workers as a key factor underlying the social exclusion in Europe and North America.

This book focuses on on the Pacific region, one of the most rapidly aging regions, and examines the risk aspects.

This book covers topics that span theory, policy, and history and range over Latin America, Asia as well as OECD countries.

This book consists of a series of in depth case studies of investor-investee relations, based on extensive empirical research and organized around the principal-agent method, which provide valuable insights into modern UK venture capital practice.

Including case studies of Japan, India, Brazil, Malaysia and many other countries this unique book gives an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the unpredictable and rapidly changing world market in rice.

Well-functioning labour markets are a precondition for economic development. Here leading researchers present an overview of labour market workings providing new theoretical and empirical insights.

When the 2008 housing market bubble burst in the United States, a financial crisis rippled from the epi-center in the United States across borders into economies both near and far, causing persistent social and economic detriment in many countries. The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America: Impacts and Responses is an examination of the impacts and responses in the diverse Latin American region through the lens of three countries: Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina.

Sixty-five years have passed since the end of World War II. It is timely to reflect upon this short but curious Japanese economic history, beginning with the extreme hunger and poverty in the late 1940s, followed by quick recovery and "miraculous" growth since the late 1950s, to the first oil shock in 1972, slow growth in the reset of the 1970s and 1980s, and finally almost complete stagnation over the last two decades. This book attempts to make sense of Japan's economic history for these past sixty-five years.

Focuses on the provision of public investment and level of governmental intervention in Europe and the USA with particularly reference to the EU Cohesion Policy and the US Federal Investment Policies.

The book summarizes current practices and theories of economic evaluation for sustainability and provides understanding of emerging trends. It stresses the importance of environmental policies and business actions in achieving sustainable growth and suggests why countries should take natural capital and other conventional inputs into consideration.

This book compares between Japan and Finland to offer a fruitful platform for the study of the similarities and differences in economic and societal development.

This topical book outlines the positions of the main players in the Doha Development Agenda, analyzes the effects of these positions, and finds a way to complete the Doha Round so a meaningful contribution to its main development objective is made.

This book provides a systematic analysis of data and case studies in its analysis of the phenomenon of technological diversification.

This collection critically examines the new global policy of 'Good Governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book will redress the balance.

In spite of many years of negotiation on trade liberalization, progress seems to have stalled. This book explores why resistance to further market liberalization seems so strong, when the benefits are seen to outweigh the costs, arguing that in order to understand the slow progress of WTO negotiations, we need to take into consideration the way in which international and domestic aspects of politics and policies have been woven together.

This impressive new book provides the first serious analysis of temporary work and its effect on the economy as well as its ramifications for workers.

The rising star of Spanish economics, Carlos Rodriguez Fuentes, has produced a work of impressive clarity which analyses the effects of regional monetary policy - with particular reference to European Monetary Union.

In 11 chapters, 27 leading scientists, mostly Chinese, provide a truly collaborative work on China‿s current status. Written mostly from a socioeconomic perspective, this volume provides an insider's look at China not readily available in English. Most chapters include case studies, giving readers an opportunity to look at detailed analyses in an otherwise general treatise on the transformation of the country. Linking economic growth, population expansion, transportation, and urban alterations results in an important read for those interested in China. A plethora of tables and maps complemented by a rich, largely obscure bibliography enriches the book significantly. --L. Yacher, Southern Connecticut State University

This important book looks at fiscal policy in the Asian Pacific economies and with a broad array of contributors will be a useful tool.

Trade liberalization has swept over developing countries over the past few decades and its results have been argued about for the last few years. This text presents useful into the experience of APEC countries that have gone through numerous liberalizing reforms in recent times.

As globalization continues apace, market segmentations are diminishing, distance is shrinking and the boundaries between nation states are becoming increasingly blurred. This book explores the properties of the world economy, the diverse mechanisms of interdependence, shocks and disturbances, economic processes and structures, and more.

This book provides a systematic analysis of data and case studies in its analysis of the phenomenon of technological diversification.

Dilip Das examines the impact of ever-increasing financial globalization on emerging market economies, both in the former communist countries of eastern Europe and the developing world in general.

This book explains the macro-drivers of growth behind the economic development of Bangladesh. It also looks at the strategic interventions on macro-level, specifically the policy interventions.

This interdisciplinary edited volume explores the political economy of regionalism in Latin America. It identifies convergent forces which have existed in the region since its very conception and analyses these dynamics in their different historical, geographic and structural contexts.

Presents an analysis of development policy, strategy and practice in a variety of countries, with equal weight provided to Asia, Latin America and Africa. This book examines the complex network of connections and the implications for international development policy, strategy and practice. It is suitable for academics and practitioners alike.

This reference work sheds light on the industrial development in Africa. It also provides an in-depth look into Chinäs engagement and migrant labour in Africa. The book also addresses the roles of public-private partnership (PPP) and international development cooperation and how they are fundamental to industrialization in Asia and Africa.