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...

“A must read for anyone interested in understanding complexities of development process.” -Fakhruddin Ahmed, former Governor of the Central Bank of Bangladesh “Policy makers and general readers including specialists would find this lucid analysis very useful.” - Nurul Islam, Deputy...

Political Risk Complementarity Between Business Economics and International Relations -- The Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth: Empirical Analyses for Western Balkan Countries -- Inflation and Economic Growth in Turkey -- Distance as Determinant of FDI in Transition Countries -- The...

Jorge Braga de Macedo as an Economic Historian: The Transition of the Portuguese Economy from the Authoritarian to the Democratic Period (1960-1979) -- Bagehot for “Followers”: How Did the Portuguese Lender of Last Resort Manage the First Post World War I Crisis? -- What’s in a Bond? The...

1. Introduction. -2. Jamaica “Comin’ in from de Cold” -- 3. The Moyne Commission -- 4. Jamaica: Independence Realized -- 5. Introducing the International Monetary Fund -- 6. A Clash of Ideologies: Jamaica and the International Monetary Fund -- 7. The 1980s and 1990s: Inflection Points? --...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Second Return to the Fund -- Chapter 3. Restoring Credibility: Passing All the Tests -- Chapter 4. Tracking the Themes through the Medium Term Economic and Financial Programs -- Chapter 5. A New Element: The Governance Paradigm and EPOC -- Chapter 6....

Chapter I Introduction -- Part I The International Relations of Population Resources and Environment -- Chapter II Development: Global Strategy of the Balance of Population Potential and Resource -- Chapter III Global Warming and China’s Development -- Part II Strengthening the External...

Based on their ability to facilitate interdependencies across the borders of national and regional markets, multinationals enterprises (MNEs) act as the key drivers of world trade and investment activities. While recent global challenges additionally highlight the need to explain and assess the...

Introduction -- China Before Xi Jinping -- China in the Global Economy -- US-China Relations Under the Trump Presidency -- Economic and Political Equilibria in East And South Asia -- Central-Western Asia and the Middle East -- China in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Investments in Latin America -- China...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The BRI in a Multipolar World: A Normative Tool for Cooperation or Nationalism? -- Chapter 3: Margins of Autonomy in the Chinese Belt Road Initiative: Negotiating Growth in Rural Angola -- Chapter 4: China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Three Diverse...