In the past two decades, China has experienced rapid industrial and economic growth. This fascinating book explores the unique Chinese business strategy of vigorous market entry and low prices, which has been the key feature of this accelerated industrial growth.
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The Disintegration of Production
Firm Strategy and Industrial Development in China
Edited by Mariko Watanabe
Edited by Robert E.B. Lucas
This Handbook summarizes the state of thinking and presents new evidence on various links between international migration and economic development, with particular reference to lower-income countries. The connections between trade, aid and migration are critically examined through global case studies.
Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development
Betterment and Compensation in China
Li Tian
This book presents an analysis of betterment and compensation issues under the Land Use Rights
(LURs) System in China since 1988. The topic originates from the observation of widening inequity
and increasing uncertainty associated with the failure of government to adequately address
betterment and compensation issues. An analytical framework of institutions and property rights is
employed to examine socio-economic impacts under the LURs system, in particular, the role of the
state is analyzed to explore the effects of government intervention in land markets.
Asia and Global Production Networks
Implications for Trade, Incomes and Economic Vulnerability
Edited by Benno Ferrarini and David Hummels
This timely book deploys new tools and measures to understand how global production networks change the nature of global economic interdependence, and how that in turn changes our understanding of which policies are appropriate in this new environment. Bringing to bear an array of the latest methods and data to study global value chains, this unique book assesses the evolution of global value chains at the firm level, and how this affects competitiveness in Asia.
Regulating Health Foods
Policy Challenges and Consumer Conundrums
Jill E. Hobbs, Stavroula Malla, Eric K. Sogah and May T. Yeung
With ageing populations, rising incomes and a growing recognition of the link between diet and health, consumers are interested in new food products, supplements and ingredients with purported health benefits. The food industry has responded with new food innovations, formulations and enhancements that comprise the growing health food market, manifesting the need to design regulatory frameworks to govern valid health claims.
National Innovation Systems, Social Inclusion and Development
The Latin American Experience
Edited by Gabriela Dutrénit and Judith Sutz
The book has a strong theoretical foundation with empirical illustrations from diverse Latin American countries. As a whole, it offers a comprehensive exploration of the foundations of the theory of National Innovation Systems. The authors explore the particular problems that many Latin American countries have faced when trying to build innovation systems associated with development strategies, particularly those that take into account social inclusion.
UNIDO
World Statistics on Mining and Utilities provides a unique biennial overview of the role of mining and utility activities in the world economy. This extensive resource from UNIDO provides detailed time series data on the level, structure and growth of international mining and utility activities by country and sector. Country level data is clearly presented on the number of establishments, employment and output of activities such as: coal, iron ore and crude petroleum mining as well as production and supply of electricity, natural gas and water.
Innovation and Inequality
Emerging Technologies in an Unequal World
Edited by Susan Cozzens and Dhanaraj Thakur
Inequality is one of the main features of globalization. Do emerging technologies, as they spread around the world, contribute to more inequality or less? This unique interdisciplinary text examines the relationships between emerging technologies and social, economic and other forms of inequality.
Edited by Stuart J. Smyth, Peter W.B. Phillips and David Castle
This book is a compendium of knowledge, experience and insight on agriculture, biotechnology and development. Beginning with an account of GM crop adoptions and attitudes towards them, the book assesses numerous crucial processes, concluding with detailed insights into GM products. Drawing on expert perspectives of leading authors from 57 different institutions in 16 countries, it provides a unique, global overview of agbiotech following 20 years of adoption. Many consider GM crops the most rapid agricultural innovation adopted in the history of agriculture. This book provides insights as to why the adoption has occurred globally at such a rapid rate.
Handbook on Food
Demand, Supply, Sustainability and Security
Edited by Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anil B. Deolalikar
The global population is forecasted to reach 9.4 billion by 2050, with much of this increase concentrated in developing regions and cities. Ensuring adequate food and nourishment to this large population is a pressing economic, moral and even security challenge and requires research (and action) from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
This book provides the first such integrated approach to tackling this problem by addressing the multiplicity of challenges posed by rising global population, diet diversification and urbanization in developing countries and climate change.