Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
About the Book Series
In an increasingly interdependent world, many of the most important issues are driven by economic forces. This series applies newly developed economic techniques to some of the most pressing contemporary problems. The aim of the series is to demonstrate the relevance of modern economic theory to the modern world economy, and to provide key reading for researchers and policy-makers.
Time Zones, Communications Networks, and International Trade
1st Edition
By Toru Kikuchi
September 09, 2013
Advances in digital technology have driven large decreases in the costs of data transfer and telecommunications. There is a consequent increase in many kinds of international trade. One of the fastest-growing parts of this industry is "remote maintenance" whereby Indian companies debug software for...
Innovative Fiscal Policy and Economic Development in Transition Economies
1st Edition
By Aleksandr Gevorkyan
August 08, 2013
This book explores the problems of fiscal policy as an instrument of economic and social development in the modern environment, primarily focusing on the transition economies of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia. Evaluating the transformational experience in these countries, this work ...
Financial Liberalization and Economic Performance: Brazil at the Crossroads
1st Edition
By Luiz Fernando de Paula
June 25, 2013
Since the beginning of the 1990s, Brazil has followed a pattern of economic development inspired by Washington Consensus. This framework includes a set of liberalising and market friendly policies such as privatisation, trade liberalization, stimulus to foreign direct investment, tax reform, ...
Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Asia: Selected Issues and Policy Options
1st Edition
By Ramkishen Rajan
May 07, 2013
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 ...
Foreign Direct Investment in China: Spillover Effects on Domestic Enterprises
1st Edition
By Ziliang Deng
May 07, 2013
This book provides an insightful exploration of whether foreign direct investment (FDI) can promote the productivity of domestic enterprises. The book is based on a series of dedicated research conducted in the context of the Chinese economy, which has been the largest FDI host among the developing...
Miraculous Growth and Stagnation in Post-War Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Koichi Hamada, Keijiro Otsuka, Gustav Ranis, Ken Togo
May 07, 2013
This volume examines different aspects of the Japanese experience in a comparative context. There is much here of relevance to contemporary developing countries anxious to initiate the experience of miraculous growth and anxious to avoid the subsequent stagnation. Such issues of the role of ...
The Impact of China on Global Commodity Prices: The Disruption of the World’s Resource Sector
1st Edition
By Masuma Farooki, Raphael Kaplinsky
March 04, 2013
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 ...
Towards A Fair Global Labour Market: The Role of International Labour
1st Edition
Edited
By Ozay Mehmet, Errol Mendes, Robert Sinding
January 11, 2013
This book answers the question of how to maintain effective labour regulation as the market for labour moves towards globalization. This issue is addressed from legal, economic, social and cultural perspectives. The authors consider the effects of free trade and investment, with and without labour ...
International Perspectives on Temporary Work
1st Edition
Edited
By John Burgess, Julia Connell
November 15, 2012
The numbers of workers employed on a temporary basis has grown massively over the last few decades. The benefits to firms of hiring workers on a temporary basis are clear and generally can be reduced to their cheaper short term cost. The status of workers employed in this manner however means that ...
Regional Monetary Policy
1st Edition
By Carlos Javier Rodriguez Fuentes
November 15, 2012
With the final phase of the European Monetary Union underway, concern has been raised over the regional implications of the European Central Bank (ECB) Monetary Policy. Departing from the standard approach utilized by the ECB, this book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to explore the ...
Trade and Migration in the Modern World
1st Edition
By Carl Mosk
November 02, 2012
Revolutionized by the growing use of fossil fuels and electricity and the reduced costs of transportation and communications, international trade and migration has received an unprecedented boost in recent years. Using a theory of economic and political gravitation, backed up with both quantitative...
China and India: The Quest for Energy Resources in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Hong Zhao
October 31, 2012
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 ...