Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Expert Overviews -- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA -- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics -- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part...

1. Convergence of Local Enterprises with Large Corporations -- 2. Validation and Modelling of Drivers and Barriers for Multivendor ATM -- 3. Leveraging Technology for Shared Services Transformation -- 4. Coal Sourcing Options for Captive Power Plants of Aluminum Smelters in India -- 5. Managing...

1. A Poor Young Nation -- 2. From Independence to Turmoil -- 3. Political, Economic and Social Developments 2007-2018 -- 4. Population Growth and Job Creation: The Search for a Modern Sector -- 5. The Agricultural Sector -- 6. Oil and the Resource Curse -- 7. Conclusions and a Look to the Future.

Introduction -- Part I - Looking Back: What Do We Know About the South African Business Cycle? -- The South African Economy in the Twentieth Century -- Part II - The Financial Crisis and Its Impact on the Cycle: Business Cycle Recoveries - A Comparative View -- The Role of Institutional...

Introduction -- Part 1. The conceptual foundations of sustainable development of economy in the conditions of digitization -- Chapter 1. The modern scientific paradigm of sustainable development of economy and specifics of its treatment in the conditions of digitization -- Chapter 2....

Chapter 1. Mao Zedong and the Preconditions for the Butterfly Effect -- Chapter 2. Deng Xiaoping Triggered off the Butterfly Effect -- Chapter 3. Confucius as Cultural Capital in Sustaining the Butterfly Effect -- Chapter 4. Spread Education and Devouring Global Knowledge -- Chapter 5. Economic...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Rentier States towards Diversification: Case Study Gulf States -- Chapter 3 Food Security in the GCC Countries, towards a more Diversified and Sustained Economic Strategies -- Chapter 4 The Evolution of the Economic Relations between Turkey and the GCC...

Chapter 1. Development Institutions as a Tool for Implementing Transformation Processes in the Economy -- Chapter 2. Managing for future crisis management under post-industrial modernization -- Chapter 3. High Technologies for Smart Cities Development -- Chapter 4. Digital State: Creation...

Forschung, Bildung und Wachstum -- Soziale Mobilität und Ungleichheit. - Arbeitsmarkt und Sozialpolitik -- Steuern und Staat -- Industriepolitik und internationaler Handel -- Geldpolitik, Banken und Finanzierung -- Unternehmen und industrieller Wandel.

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Structural changes of the Chinese economy: from the New Dream to Covid19 -- Chapter 2 Can China be less dependent on exports? -- Chapter 3 Chinese innovation capacity: state of the art of the leading edge -- Chapter 4 Chinese diplomacy, strategic partnerships and global...