By the beginning of the 20th century, the possibility and efficacy of economic planning was believed to have been proven by totalitarian experiments in Germany, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser degree, Fascist Italy; however, the possibilities and limitations of planning in capitalist...

Climate change, energy security and China's stance -- Influences on the development of Chinese policies : historical and contemporary perspectives -- Actors in China's climate-related energy policies -- From CDM to Pilot Carbon Trading Scheme -- ECERS for the energy production sector and energy...

How Does China Regulate a Socialist Market Economy? -- The Evolution of China's Multifaceted Industrial Regulation -- The Auto Industry: Soft Regulation -- The Telecommunications Service Industry: Hard Regulation -- Beyond China: State Regulation in a Socialist Market Economy.

Chapter1 An Analysis of the Factors affecting New-Generation Peasant Workers’ Decision-making of Vocational Training Participation —A Micro Perspective -- Chapter2 A Theoretical and Empirical Study on over-leaping the Middle Income Trap -- Chapter3 Middle Income Trap and the Innovation of...

The main objective of this book is to develop a strategy and policy measures to enhance the formalization of the shadow economy in order to improve the competitiveness of the economy and contribute to economic growth; it explores these issues with special reference to Serbia. The size and...

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The 1930s, characterised by repercussions from World War I and the Great Depression, was an era of populism, nationalism, protectionism, government intervention and attempts to create planned economies. The perceived need for economic planning emerged in Sweden in part due to the increasing...

This book provides a study on the impact of Brexit on international competitiveness and in doing so, presents a theoretical account of regional disintegration. In recent decades, the theory of regional economic integration has expanded following growing integration processes taking place not...

We look at Korea's industrialization strategy and experience from the 1960s to the mid-1990s. Three elements of the Korean industrial development and structural change are discussed: 1) its outward orientation and export push, 2) its climb up the ladder of comparative advantage, and 3) its...

This paper demonstrates that even established and verified facts of agreements among producers are not a sufficient condition for cartel identification and, as a consequence, prosecution of agreement participants. Such requires looking at institutional details and the wider context of these and...

"Libérale ou étatique, aucune des solutions tentées par nos gouvernements pour sauver un modèle devenu obsolète n'a abouti. La France compte aujourd'hui 5 millions de chômeurs, plus de 8 millions de pauvres et elle finance ses retraites par le déficit. Pourtant la plupart des candidats à...

An Indispensable ReformThe Current Social Security System in China; Social security for urban workers in formal sectors; Social security for government employees in administrative and operative units; Social security for rural farmers and urban non-working residents; Challenges to China's Current...

Although most economists maintain a mistrust of a government's goals when it intervenes in an economy, many continue to trust its actual ability. They retain, in other words, a faith in state competence. For this faith, they adduce no evidence. Sharing little skepticism about the government's...

How did China get so big in so short a time? -- China's domestic and foreign problems -- Why did China opted for communism and won the civil war? -- History of Chinese economic development -- Selected Deng Xiaoping economic development strategies and theories -- Five year plan model and post...

This book introduces the reader to local development economics and policy, with a special focus on the place-based paradigm that covers its justification, its difficulties and the types of public intervention that it suggests. The starting point for the analysis is that economic development in...

This book presents a rigorous treatment of the mathematical instruments available for dealing with income distributions, in particular Lorenz curves and related methods. The methods examined allow us to analyze, compare and modify such distributions from an economic and social perspective....

This book applies cost-benefit analysis techniques in the management of environment and natural resources in developing countries of the Southeast Asian region and presents a compendium of studies conducted by researchers supported by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia...

This book compiles the presentations and discussions from the international symposium “Beyond Global Capitalism” that was held with the contributions of Emmanuel Todd, Ha-Joon Chang, and other scholars in Kyoto, Japan, in 2013. The book is intended to make the reader aware that global...