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.
Achieving Food Security in China: The Challenges Ahead
1st Edition
By Zhang-Yue Zhou
June 04, 2019
China’s food security has never failed to attract the public’s attention. Feeding China’s large population has always been a huge challenge. The latest large-scale famine took place in 1958–62 during which approximately 37 million people died of starvation. However, since the early 1980s, China’s ...
Agricultural Growth, Productivity and Regional Change in India: Challenges of globalisation, liberalisation and food insecurity
1st Edition
By Surendra Singh, Prem Chhetri
June 04, 2019
Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined. In particular, the impacts of economic liberalisation, globalisation and deregulation are not being empirically investigated at a small-area level using advanced...
Economic Integration and Regional Development: The ASEAN Economic Community
1st Edition
Edited
By Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Khairuddin Abdul Rashid, Masahiko Furuichi, William P. Anderson
June 04, 2019
With a combined population larger than that of the EU or NAFTA, economic integration of the ASEAN states will have a massive impact on both the Asian and global economies. This book examines the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and its opportunities and challenges. It looks at the impacts of economic...
Inequality in Capitalist Societies
1st Edition
By Surinder S. Jodhka, Boike Rehbein, Jessé Souza
June 04, 2019
Inequality is one of the most discussed topics of our times. Yet, we still do not know how to tackle the issue effectively. The book argues that this is due to the lack of understanding the structures responsible for the persistence of social inequality. It enquires into the mechanisms that produce...
Human Evolution, Economic Progress and Evolutionary Failure
1st Edition
By Bhanoji Rao
January 23, 2019
This monograph is an innovative endeavour in many ways. First, it brings to the fore the synergy between human evolution and economic and social progress. Second, it acknowledges the critical contributions from the routine adherence to contextual truth and contextual non-violence of humanity at ...
The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones: Concentrating Economic Development
1st Edition
By Lotta Moberg
October 25, 2018
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become a popular development policy throughout the world over the last half a century. These zones form designated areas where governments offer businesses lower taxes, tariffs, and often lighter regulations. Generally, SEZs aim to attract investments and raise a ...
Measuring National Income in the Centrally Planned Economies: Why the West Underestimated the Transition to Capitalism
1st Edition
By William Jefferies
September 10, 2018
In 1991 "Communism" collapsed. The cold war was over and the West had won. Whole cities, Moscow, St Petersburg, Warsaw, Beijing, Budapest and Bucharest, whole countries indeed, were privatised for nothing or next to nothing. This was probably the greatest expansion of the world market in history. ...
Innovation, Globalization and Firm Dynamics: Lessons for Enterprise Policy
1st Edition
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By Anna Ferragina, Erol Taymaz, Kamil Yilmaz
August 23, 2018
This book is about the relationship between firm dynamics, innovation and globalization, the processes that are essential for long term economic growth and welfare creation. This volume deals with these three issues in three sections titled respectively: entrepreneurship, new firm formation and ...
Global Financial Crises and Reforms: Cases and Caveats
1st Edition
Edited
By B. N. Ghosh
August 10, 2018
This is an innovative collection of papers written by a panel of highly respected academics and financial experts. Whilst providing an insight into the phenomenology of the financial crises of the 1990s in Asia and Latin America, the book also explores possibilities for their solution....
International Remittance Payments and the Global Economy
1st Edition
By Bharati Basu, James T. Bang
August 10, 2018
International Remittance Payments are described mainly as money sent by immigrants to their families and friends in their home countries. These payments provide an important source of income that is mostly used to provide for a variety of basic needs of the non-migrating members of immigrant ...
Chinese Entrepreneurship: An Austrian economics perspective
1st Edition
By Fu-Lai Tony Yu, Diana Kwan
June 28, 2018
After more than 30 years of reformations in agriculture, manufacturing and trade and industry, China’s economy has grown to become the second largest in the world. This book examines the contributions of dynamic entrepreneurs to the economic development of mainland China and Hong Kong – an analysis...
Comparing Post War Japanese and Finnish Economies and Societies: Longitudinal perspectives
1st Edition
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By Yasushi Tanaka, Toshiaki Tamaki, Jari Ojala, Jari Eloranta
June 28, 2018
This book compares two countries with striking parallels in economic and political outcomes, yet with some distinct features in terms of institutional structures, relative size, and culture. Therefore, this book forms a fruitful platform for the study of the similarities and differences in the ...