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.
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 ...
The Political Economy of Integration: The Experience of Mercosur
1st Edition
By Jeffrey W. Cason
November 08, 2013
This book assesses South America’s most ambitious attempt at economic integration, Mercosur. It explains the main—and inherent—weaknesses of the integration effort, through explicit comparison with the European experience with integration. Jeffrey Cason argues that the three main reasons for ...
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Multi-Level Government: The Case of EU Cohesion Policy and of US Federal Investment Policies
1st Edition
By Alessandro Ferrara
November 07, 2013
This book provides an original theoretical framework for assessing public investment policies co-financed by Union (Federal) governments. This framework is applied to two important case studies: the EU Cohesion Policy and the US Federal Investment Policies. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Multi-Level ...
Innovative Fiscal Policy and Economic Development in Transition Economies
1st Edition
By Aleksandr Gevorkyan
August 07, 2013
This book explores the problems of fiscal policy as an instrument of economic and social development in the modern environment, primarily focusing on the transition economies of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia. Evaluating the transformational experience in these countries, this work ...
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, ...