China is stepping up efforts to design its first antimonopoly law, one of the most important legislative acts for China in decades. The framework and basic elements of the new law are known through a careful examination of the latest draft. Due to the unique challenges and competing priorities...

Socially responsible employment practices help organizations attract, develop, and manage employees while valuing them as investments. Environmental social responsibility considers people, planet and profit issues that lead to sustained competitive advantage. Creating socially responsible and...

Presidents shape the economy; the economy shapes presidencies. Yet analyses of presidential influence over the economy usually examine this interplay through an excessively narrow focus: the ability of presidents to shape short-term economic outcomes, particularly as these affect their own...

China’s economic transformation cannot be fully explained by focusing on a single variable; rather, it is a result of multiple institutional factors. Since the introduction of market-oriented reforms in 1978, a combination of formal and informal institutional changes as well as top-down and...

This article compares government responses to the Great Recession of 2008–2009 with government responses to recessions and other economic challenges in the period 1974–1982. We focus on five countries: France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Across these...

Macroeconomic crises not only affect the current living standards of the poor, but their ability to grow out of poverty. This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not only result in higher poverty rates but may cause...

Structural reforms are stressed in Europe 2020 as a tool for boosting economic growth and improving social cohesion. Yet tensions often arises between country specificities and goals, on one side, and pressures by partners and EU wide goals on the other side. The paper discusses the European...

Within the European Union cohesion member states were hit hardest by the global economic crisis. In this region, development relied more heavily on the influx of foreign capital compared to other emerging regions, which, in turn, made these countries more vulnerable to the effects of the crisis....

"The dominant policy response to economic crises over the past four decades has been the introduction of austerity. How has this mix of budget cuts and reforms to downsize the role of the state evolved over time? What affect has it had on social policies and on people's lives? This book examines...