Developing Policies for Local Farmer Production Groups and Their Impacts on Inequality and Poverty Reduction in Lao PDR -- The Role of Social Trust in Expansion of the Sharing Economy for Poverty Reduction -- Developing the Tourism Sector for Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Sustainable Growth in...

Einführung in die Institutionenökonomie -- Formelle Institutionen und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung (politische Glaubwürdigkeit und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung) -- Informelle Institutionen und institutioneller Wandel -- Komplexität und Wirtschaftsleistung der Institutionen.

1. China and its New Position in the World Economy -- 2.China's Economic Growth and its Main Sources -- 3. The Growing Importance of China in Global Trade -- 4. FDI as a Driving Force of China's Expansion -- 5. The Importance of the Energy Sector in China's Growth Strategy -- Quo Vadis China

Chapter 1 New Mission for China's Special Economic Zones -- Chapter 2 Internal Causes for Shenzhen's Industrial Development and Structural Evolution: An Explanation from the Perspective of Institutional Change -- Chapter 3 The Evolution of the Special Economic Zones: International Experience and...

Chapter 1. Interest Burden and Debt Sustainability, by Zhang Xiaojing et al -- Chapter 2. The Sophistication of China’s Financial System, by Fan Lijun & Yin Jianfeng -- Chapter 3 Corporate Leveraging from the Perspective of Return on Assets--Two-Level Deviations of Macro and Micro Leverage...

1. The Particular Colombian Case in Latin America: A Singular Path with the Same Results -- 2. The Price of the Regeneration, 1870-1914: How Colombia Missed the Belle Époque -- 3. The Take-Off, 1914-1929: Coffee, Railways and Regional Divergence -- 4. The Liberal Republic, 1930-1945: Overcoming...

1. 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Trends and the Current State of Communism and Post-Communism in Europe and Asia -- 2. A Taxonomy of Post-Communist Economies after 30 Years of Reforms -- 3. The Central Asian Countries’ Economies in the Twenty-First Century -- 4. The...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: GDP Shortcomings and a Brief History of Creating General Measures of Socio-Economic Development -- Chapter 3: Conceptual and Theoretical Basis of Balanced Development Index (BDI) -- Chapter 4: To Weight or Not to Weight? -- Chapter 5: Four Domains of...

Overview of the Ethiopian Economy -- Economy-Wide and Regional Effects of Climate Change -- Economy-Wide and Regional Effects of Planned Adaptation -- Structural Change and Climate-Resilient Development.

1. Introduction -- 2. Liaoning: The Smothering Effects of Local Protectionism -- 3. Slow, Steady, Cheap, and Painless: Making Sense of China’s Bad Loan Strategy -- 4. Who Loses from Restricting Chinese Student Visas? -- 5. From Windfalls to Pitfalls: Qualcomm’s China Conundrum -- 6. In Xi We...