Between 1978 and 2006, GDP growth in China maintained an annual average rate of 9.7 per cent, meaning the Chinese economy increased by more than twelve times. This study of China's economy covers topics such as: the historical foundations of the 30 years of reform, law and development in China,...

Does culture matter? This question has taken on added significance since fundamentalist revivalism has recently gained ground in different parts of the world. The old controversy between Max Weber and Karl Marx, which centres around the extent to which cultural factors such as social norms and...

Social protection is currently receiving a great deal of academic and policy attention throughout Africa, but not all policy decisions taken are based on solid evidence. Social protection can be understood as interventions that reduce social vulnerability, economic risk and extreme poverty....

Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) from industrialized economies that are active in developing countries face challenging hurdles due to economic and institutional discrepancies between their home and host countries. This book focuses on the interaction between the traditional logics of developing...