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...

PART I. ECONOMY BASED ON RESOURCE SECTOR -- Chapter 1. Institutional reform in Kazakhstan -- Chapter 2. Oil and gas industry development -- Chapter 3. The effects of oil revenues on Kazakhstan’s economy -- PART II. KAZAKHSTAN: STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES -- Chapter 4. Infrastructure investment and...

Introduction by the Editors -- Empirical Estimates of Inverted Duty Structure and Effective Rate of Protection- The case of India -- Does Past Performance in Home Market Affect Export Participation of New Exporters? Evidence from Indian Firms -- A Panel Data Analysis of Indo-Africa Trade: A...

Chapter One: China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Introduction and Overview -- Chapter Two: Proliferating Major Power Infrastructure Initiatives -- Chapter Three: Potential Economic Impact of BRI: A CGE Analysis -- Chapter Four: Perception Survey of Asian Opinion Leaders -- Chapter Five: BRI and...

Comparative Analysis of Economy along the Belt and Road -- Observation and Policy Recommendations for Industrial Relocation under the Belt and Road Initiative -- Upgrading of Industrial Structure in China’s Economic Growth and the Belt and Road Initiative -- Beijing’s Integration into the...

Empirical Overview and Theoretical Perspectives -- Politics and Power in Emerging Market Multinationals -- Sustainability and Emerging Market Multinationals -- Changing Global Labor Conditions -- Regional Expansion Strategies to Europe -- Conclusions

1. Introduction -- 2. The Dutch disease and economic diversification – should the approach by developing countries be different -- 3. Dutch disease hypothesis and non-resource sector firms -- 4. Trade Facilitation in South Asia: Landlocked Countries’ Perspective -- 5. The Determinants of FDI...

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...

Economic development and importance of IT industry –An appraisal based on Asian countries -- The role of IT investment on the bank performance: A co-integration and causality analysis for Asian countries -- Is there any relationship between output growth and export growth in Indian information...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's rapid economic development in the post-war era and the challenges it faces in forging ahead of world leaders in the West. The...