Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
About the Book Series
In an increasingly interdependent world, many of the most important issues are driven by economic forces. This series applies newly developed economic techniques to some of the most pressing contemporary problems. The aim of the series is to demonstrate the relevance of modern economic theory to the modern world economy, and to provide key reading for researchers and policy-makers.
Global View on the World Economy: A Global Analysis
1st Edition
By Horst Siebert
January 16, 2014
As globalization continues apace, market segmentations are diminishing, distance is shrinking and the boundaries between nation states are becoming increasingly blurred. National economies are closely interlinked through manychannels and we rarely view things from a single country’s view, adopting ...
Foreign Direct Investment and the World Economy
1st Edition
By Ashoka Mody
January 03, 2014
Asking the question of whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is 'integrating' the world economy, this comprehensive volume consists of an overview of current FDI research. While the term 'integrating' is often used, the real test should be whether FDI is instrumental in bringing per ...
Economic Growth and Income Inequality in China, India and Singapore: Trends and Policy Implications
1st Edition
By Pundarik Mukhopadhaya, G Shantakumar, Bhanoji Rao
November 14, 2013
The world at large is watching both China and India as powerhouses of economic growth. The two nations have achieved significantly high rates of economic growth ever since their respective economies liberalized in 1978 and 1991. Singapore, despite its limited land size and almost total dependence ...
Cartelization, Antitrust and Globalization in the US and Europe
1st Edition
By Mark S. LeClair
November 08, 2013
The uncovering of a great number of cartels in the industrialised world has left an unfortunate, yet significant, mark on global economic developments in recent years. Globalization has forced firms into more direct competition; the result has been global price-fixing. This situation has greatly&...
China and Asia: Economic and Financial Interactions
1st Edition
Edited
By Yin-Wong Cheung, Kar-Yiu Wong
November 08, 2013
It is difficult to overstate the growing importance of China and Asia in the global economy. Despite the sharp downturn experienced in the 1997 financial crisis, China and Asia have bounced back strongly in the new millennium and delivered solid economic growth. In this book, Ying-Wong Cheung and ...
Global Challenges and Local Responses: The East Asian Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Jang-Sup Shin
November 08, 2013
East Asia has in many ways been the cockpit of the globalization process. If the phenomenon as it is generally defined is largely recognized as a relatively recent one, the countries that have experienced most change during this period have been in the region. Rapid economic growth leading to the ...
Governing Rapid Growth in China: Equity and Institutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Ravi Kanbur, Xiaobo Zhang
November 08, 2013
After three decades of spectacular economic growth in China, the problem is no longer how to achieve growth, but how to manage its consequences and how to sustain it. The most important consequence, at least as far as Chinese policy makers are concerned, is the rapidly growing inequality, between ...
Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashoka Mody, Catherine Pattillo
November 08, 2013
In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and the political economy of budgetary decisions. Going beyond ...
Production Organizations in Japanese Economic Development
1st Edition
By Tetsuji Okazaki
November 08, 2013
In this important new book, the authors explore how production was organized in the context of the economic development of modern Japan. Production organizations are taken to mean the long-term relationships which economic agents create for production, based on employment contracts or ...
Regional Inequality in China: Trends, Explanations and Policy Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Xiaobo Zhang
November 08, 2013
China’s spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social compact and thus the political basis for economic growth. Chinese policy makers have realized the importance of the problem and have launched a series of investigations and policy ...
Street Entrepreneurs: People, Place, & Politics in Local and Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By John Cross, Alfonso Morales
November 08, 2013
Addressing the current dearth of available literature on this topic, the editors use a range of international case studies to explore street vending and informal economies which continue to be, especially in developing countries, a vital economic driver. This volume collects essays from authors ...
The Economic Geography of Air Transportation: Space, Time, and the Freedom of the Sky
1st Edition
By John T. Bowen
November 08, 2013
Like the railroad and the automobile, the airliner has changed the very geography of the societies it serves. Fundamentally, air transportation has helped redefine the scale of human geography by dramatically reducing the cost of distance, both in terms of time and money. The result is what the ...