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.
Financial Liberalization and Economic Performance: Brazil at the Crossroads
1st Edition
By Luiz Fernando de Paula
June 21, 2013
Since the beginning of the 1990s, Brazil has followed a pattern of economic development inspired by Washington Consensus. This framework includes a set of liberalising and market friendly policies such as privatisation, trade liberalization, stimulus to foreign direct investment, tax reform, ...
Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Asia: Selected Issues and Policy Options
1st Edition
By Ramkishen Rajan
May 03, 2013
With the rapid growth of China and India and the resurgence of Southeast Asia post-1997–8, emerging Asia has once again become one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This dynamism has in turn been fuelled largely by a carefully calibrated embracement of economic openness to international ...
Foreign Direct Investment in China: Spillover Effects on Domestic Enterprises
1st Edition
By Ziliang Deng
May 03, 2013
This book provides an insightful exploration of whether foreign direct investment (FDI) can promote the productivity of domestic enterprises. The book is based on a series of dedicated research conducted in the context of the Chinese economy, which has been the largest FDI host among the developing...
Miraculous Growth and Stagnation in Post-War Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Koichi Hamada, Keijiro Otsuka, Gustav Ranis, Ken Togo
May 03, 2013
This volume examines different aspects of the Japanese experience in a comparative context. There is much here of relevance to contemporary developing countries anxious to initiate the experience of miraculous growth and anxious to avoid the subsequent stagnation. Such issues of the role of ...
The Impact of China on Global Commodity Prices: The Disruption of the World’s Resource Sector
1st Edition
By Masuma Farooki, Raphael Kaplinsky
February 28, 2013
Drawing on a large number of diverse sources, The Impact of China on Global Commodity Prices comprehensively and systematically evidences the trends in the prices of different sets of commodities, analyses the drivers of China’s demand for commodities the factors constraining global supply and in ...
Towards A Fair Global Labour Market: The Role of International Labour
1st Edition
Edited
By Ozay Mehmet, Errol Mendes, Robert Sinding
January 11, 2013
This book answers the question of how to maintain effective labour regulation as the market for labour moves towards globalization. This issue is addressed from legal, economic, social and cultural perspectives. The authors consider the effects of free trade and investment, with and without labour ...
International Perspectives on Temporary Work
1st Edition
Edited
By John Burgess, Julia Connell
November 14, 2012
The numbers of workers employed on a temporary basis has grown massively over the last few decades. The benefits to firms of hiring workers on a temporary basis are clear and generally can be reduced to their cheaper short term cost. The status of workers employed in this manner however means that ...
Regional Monetary Policy
1st Edition
By Carlos Javier Rodriguez Fuentes
November 14, 2012
With the final phase of the European Monetary Union underway, concern has been raised over the regional implications of the European Central Bank (ECB) Monetary Policy. Departing from the standard approach utilized by the ECB, this book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to explore the ...
Trade and Migration in the Modern World
1st Edition
By Carl Mosk
November 01, 2012
Revolutionized by the growing use of fossil fuels and electricity and the reduced costs of transportation and communications, international trade and migration has received an unprecedented boost in recent years. Using a theory of economic and political gravitation, backed up with both quantitative...
China and India: The Quest for Energy Resources in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Hong Zhao
October 31, 2012
The book sheds understanding on the relations between development and global energy security by looking at China and India. It addresses the following issues: what is the new definition of energy security? How does it affect global politics and international relations? What are the energy security ...
China-India Economics: Challenges, Competition and Collaboration
1st Edition
By Amitendu Palit
October 31, 2012
A review of the existing literature on the China-India comparative theme conveys the distinct impression that the literature largely projects China and India as intrinsically competitive entities. While much has been written on where and why China and India are contesting, particularly from a ...
The International Trading System
1st Edition
By Alice Landau
October 19, 2012
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is without doubt one of our main instruments of globalization, the controversy which is whipped up by this organization is arguably mainly caused by the mystery which surrounds it.The International Trade System seeks to remove the clouds of misunderstanding that ...