How can Africa, the world's most lagging region, benefit from globalisation and achieve sustained economic growth? Africa needs greater investment by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) to improve competitiveness and generate more growth through positive spill-over effects. Despite the fact that...

Chapter 1: The Productivity Puzzle – A critical assessment and an outlook on the COVID-19 crisis -- Chapter 2: Revisiting intangible capital and labour productivity growth, 2000-2015: Accounting for the crisis and economic recovery in the EU -- Chapter 3: The Rule of Law and Labour...

The book examines the relationship between inequality, growth and technological progress. It provides a broad overview of the existing literature and introduces specific, innovative aspects about the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth when growth is driven by human or physical...

Two groups of papers are presented in The Service Sector: Productivity and Growth. The first group is devoted to the analysis of the interdependence among the service and the industrial sectors of the economy and to offer some evidence about the development of the service sector in the recent...

This book deals with international growth, featuring the dynamics of foreign debt and domestic capital. It proves useful to consider the Solow model, the overlapping generations model and the infinite horizon model. Phase diagrams serve to trace out the processes of adjustment induced by various...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. The Reform Trajectory of China’s Economy -- Chapter 2. Reform and Opening Up: A ‘Matter of Life and Death -- Chapter 3. The Reform Path: From Grassroot Reforms to Party-State Capitalism -- Part II. The Big Picture of China’s Economy Today -- Chapter 4....

Chapter 1. Digital Economy , Green Growth, Regional and Sustainable Development, Digital Transformation: a brief literature review (Patricia Ikouta Mazza) -- Part I. Digital Transformation and Digital Government -- Chapter 2. Digitalization and Its Limits in Reducing Economic and Social Divide...

The main objective of this book is to develop a strategy and policy measures to enhance the formalization of the shadow economy in order to improve the competitiveness of the economy and contribute to economic growth; it explores these issues with special reference to Serbia. The size and...

1. An Analysis of the Trade Relationship of Sri Lanka with Singapore based on Trade Liberalization -- 2. Pattern of Carbon Dioxide Emission, Economic Growth and Energy Consumption in South-Asian Countries – An empirical Analysis -- 3. Natural Disasters and Income Inequality in South Asia: An...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Japan’s catching up process -- Chapter 3: South Korea’s catching up process -- Chapter 4: Chapter 4: The Rise of China -- Chapter 5: The development paths and strategies of Japan, South Korea, and China – A Comparison -- Chapter 6: Chapter 6: Current...