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.
Economic Policy and the Covid-19 Crisis: The Macroeconomic Response in the US, Europe and East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan, Woosik Moon, Wook Sohn
May 31, 2023
This book offers an assessment of the different monetary and fiscal policy responses that have been implemented by national governments in major European and Asian countries faced with the Covid-19 crisis since 2020; it also deals with the case of the US experience as a benchmarking example. The ...
Industrial Development: How States Build Capabilities and Deliver Economic Prosperity
1st Edition
By Greg Clydesdale
May 31, 2023
Governments are regularly judged by their ability to deliver economic prosperity, however many policies fail to deliver their desired outcomes. Industrial Development examines historical examples of how governments have attempted to build productive capabilities and promote industrial learning. ...
Asian Foreign Direct Investment in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Prana Krishna Biswas, Robert Dygas
January 09, 2023
This book analyses the most recent trends in Foreign Direct Investment from the major Asian economies to the EU, focusing on China and Japan’s FDIs in the EU, and Poland in particular. The authors assert that, from a European perspective, there is a strong need for further Asian FDIs into EU ...
Economic Growth and Convergence: Global Analysis through Econometric and Hidden Markov Models
1st Edition
By Michał Bernardelli, Mariusz Próchniak, Bartosz Witkowski
January 09, 2023
There are many different types of convergence within economics, as well as several methods to analyse each of them. This book addresses the concept of real economic convergence or the gradual levelling-off of GDP (gross domestic product) per capita rates across economies. In addition to a ...
Neoliberalism in the Emerging Economy of India: The Political Economy of International Trade, Investment and Finance
1st Edition
Edited
By Byasdeb Dasgupta, Archita Ghosh, Bishakha Ghosh
January 09, 2023
Neoliberal economic reforms over the last four decades have altered the economic cartography of emerging market economies such as India, particularly in the context of international trade, investment and finance, and in terms of their effects on the real economy. This book examines the issues of ...
Ageing, Long-term Care Insurance and Healthcare Finance in Asia
1st Edition
By Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk
June 13, 2022
This book uses a revised version of Kingdon’s multiple-streams framework to examine health financing reforms in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Republic of Korea (ROK) as well as long-term care insurance (LTCI) reforms in Japan and Singapore. It shows that the explanatory power of the ...
What Made Korea’s Rapid Growth Possible?
1st Edition
By Jungho Yoo
June 13, 2022
Korea’s experience of rapid economic growth represents both hope and a challenge to many developing countries. The conventional wisdom inside and outside Korea has been that the government’s policies such as export promotion, industrial targeting, and so on, made the rapid growth ...
Designing Integrated Industrial Policies Volume I: For Inclusive Development in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Shigeru Thomas Otsubo, Christian Samen Otchia
May 30, 2022
This comprehensive reference work gives an overview of the industrial development and current state of industrialization and deindustrialization in Asia, specifically Southeast Asia and China. It introduces typologies of industrial policies and discusses the manufacturing sector and its evolving ...
Designing Integrated Industrial Policies Volume II: For Inclusive Development in Africa and Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Shigeru Thomas Otsubo, Christian Samen Otchia
May 30, 2022
Very little has been written on industrialization and deindustrialization in Asia and Africa. This reference work sheds illuminating light upon the industrial development in Asia and Africa. It also provides an in-depth look into China’s engagement and migrant labour in Africa. The book also ...
Regionalism in Latin America: Agents, Systems and Resilience
1st Edition
Edited
By JOSÉ BRICEÑO-RUIZ, Andres Rivarola Puntigliano
May 30, 2022
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. Particular ...
The Economic Development of Bangladesh in the Asian Century: Prospects and Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Quamrul Alam, Atiur Rahman, Shibli Rubayat Ul Islam
May 30, 2022
This book explains the macro-drivers of growth behind the economic development of Bangladesh. Few countries in the developing world have shown as exciting a promise of economic prosperity as Bangladesh. The promising nature of the Bangladeshi economy raises interesting questions pertaining to ...
Economic Growth, Inequality and Crony Capitalism: The Case of Brazil
1st Edition
By Danilo Rocha Limoeiro
May 06, 2022
Researchers in international development have long argued that the high costs of doing business harms prosperity in developing countries, a claim that invites the question of why governments impose these costs and why societies fail to enact reforms reducing them. This book seeks to answer the ...