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1. China and India

   The Quest for Energy Resources in the 21st Century

   By Hong Zhao

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   The book sheds understanding on the relations between development and global energy security by looking at China and India. It addresses the following issues: what is the new definition of energy security? How does it affect global politics and international relations? What are the energy security...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. The Korean Labour Market after the 1997 Economic Crisis

   Edited by Joonmo Cho, Richard B. Freeman, Jaeho Keum, Sunwoong Kim

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   For economists, policy-makers, and historians who want to learn how the Korean labor market dealt with the 1997 financial crisis and how this informed future policies, this volume provides a succinct summary of what Korean experts know and how they view the problems the country must overcome to...

   Published February 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Globalization and Self-Determination

   Is the Nation-State Under Siege?

   By David R. Cameron, Gustav Ranis, Annalisa Zinn

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   Is the nation state under siege? A common answer is that globalization poses two fundamental threats to state sovereignty. The first concerns the unleashing of centrifugal and centripetal forces - such as increasing market integration and the activities of institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and...

   Published January 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Asia

   Selected Issues and Policy Options

   By Ramkishen Rajan

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   With the rapid growth of China and India and the resurgence of Southeast Asia post-1997–8, emerging Asia has once again become one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This dynamism has in turn been fuelled largely by a carefully calibrated embracement of economic openness to international...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
5. Argentina's Economic Growth and Recovery

   The Economy in a Time of Default

   By Michael Cohen

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book examines the causes of the economic and political crisis in Argentina in 2001 and the process of strong economic recovery. It poses the question of how a country which defaulted on its external loans and was widely criticized by international observers could have succeeded in its growth...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. The European Economy in an American Mirror

   Edited by Barry Eichengreen, Dieter Stiefel, Michael Landesmann

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   Europe’s economy is under strain due to lagging productivity growth, population ageing, the difficulties of adjustment in an enlarged European Union, and the challenges of globalization. In comparison with America, rates of growth of GDP per capita and labour productivity growth are anaemic,...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
7. Case Studies on Chinese Enterprises

   Edited by Donglin Xia

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book is a collection of teaching cases on two Chinese companies, UFIDA and Founder. The cases describe the management practices of typical Chinese companies. UFIDA is a well-known company providing management software while Founder is a long-established high-tech company. The book aims at...

   Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Impact of China on Global Commodity Prices

   The Disruption of the World’s Resource Sector

   By Masuma Farooki, Raphael Kaplinsky

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   Drawing on a large number of diverse sources, The Impact of China on Global Commodity Prices comprehensively and systematically evidences the trends in the prices of different sets of commodities, analyses the drivers of China’s demand for commodities the factors constraining global supply and in...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
9. The New Industrial Geography

   Regions, Regulation and Institutions

   Edited by Trevor Barnes, Meric S Gertler

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   Drawing on the theoretical resources of institutional economics, The New Industrial Geography opens new perspectives in economic geography. In its focus on historical and geographical context, institutional embeddedness, and tacit rules and formal regulations, institutional economics is shown to...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
10. China-India Economics

    Challenges, Competition and Collaboration

    By Palit Amitendu

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    A review of the existing literature on the China-India comparative theme conveys the distinct impression that the literature largely projects China and India as intrinsically competitive entities. While much has been written on where and why China and India are contesting, particularly from a...

    Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge