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In today's world, it is crucial to understand how cities and urban
spaces operate in order for them to continue to develop and
improve. To ensure cities thrive, further study on past and current
policies and practices is required to provide a thorough
understanding. Urban Poetics and Politics in Contemporary South
Asia and the Middle East examines the poetics and politics of city
and urban spaces in contemporary South Asia and the Middle East and
seeks to shed light on how individuals constitute, experience, and
navigate urban spaces in everyday life. This book aims to initiate
a multidisciplinary approach to the study of city life by engaging
disciplines such as urban geography, gender studies, feminism,
literary criticism, and human geography. Covering key topics such
as racism, urban spaces, social inequality, and gender roles, this
reference work is ideal for government officials, policymakers,
researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors,
and students.
This book traces the history of India's progress since its
independence in 1947 and advances strategies for continuing
economic growth. Insiders and outsiders that have criticized India
for slow economic growth fail to recognize all it has achieved in
the last seven decades, including handling the migration of over 8
million people from Pakistan, integrating over 600 princely states
into the union, managing a multi-language population into one
nation and resolving the food problem. The end result is a
democratic country with a strong institutional foundation.
Following the growth strategies outlined in the book and with a
strong leadership, India has the potential to stand out as the
third largest economy in the world in the next 25 to 30 years.
Subhash Jain and Ben Kedia delve into India's development and
emergence as an economic power, one of the three countries that can
make its own supercomputers, one of the six countries that can
launch satellites and that has the second largest small car market
in the world. They discuss its need for innovative initiatives and
top leadership to pursue an agenda of economic growth, and
monitored policies to encourage entrepreneurship at all levels.
With an emphasis on the new leadership of Prime Minister Modi, the
book identifies policies that need to be adopted to make India s
future bright and prosperous. This book is a critical resource for
students and scholars interested in India and invested in its
progress, as well as policymakers, government officials and
corporations considering India as a place to expand and do
business.
Foreign Direct Investment and the Chinese Economy provides a
comprehensive overview of the impact of foreign direct investment,
with extensive empirical evidence, on the Chinese economy over the
last three and a half decades. Chunlai Chen presents a compelling
and thorough analysis of the leading theoretical explanations of
the impact of FDI through a series of rigorous and in-depth
empirical investigations on China's regional economic growth,
urban-rural income inequality and urbanization development. These
case studies show that despite FDI's contribution to economic
growth, reduction of income inequality and the rise in
urbanization, there is further evidence of uneven regional
distribution of FDI inflow. This has negatively affected economic
growth, exacerbated income inequality and impeded urbanization of
inland China. The book concludes by demonstrating that these
findings have important policy implications, not only for China,
but also for other developing countries influenced by the
implementation of FDI policies. This work of highly focused
theoretical analysis is an invaluable resource for scholars and
students of economics as well as policy-makers who are interested
in the Chinese economy.
Anyone trying to understand finance has to contend with the
evolving and dynamic nature of the topic. Changes in economic
conditions, regulations, technology, competition, globalization,
and other factors regularly impact the development of the field,
but certain essential concepts remain key to a good understanding.
This book provides insights about the most important concepts in
finance. Drawing from a broad background in finance, Benton Gup has
brought together sixteen chapters written by leading academics and
professionals to deal with topics including Bitcoin, cyber
security, banking, corporate governance, state vs. private
ownership, pension plans, interest rates, multi-asset investing,
real estate, US and Islamic banking, and other issues that have a
direct impact on the field, its practitioners and scholars trying
to make sense of it. This book covers timely issues in a way that
academics, regulators, investors, and bankers will find relevant
and useable. Contributors include: P. Agrrawal, S. Aliyu, J.R.
Barth, J. Brodmann, R.P. DeGennaro, G.P. Dwyer, B. Faulk, W. Faulk,
M.J. Flannery, M.B. Frye, T.J. Gallagher, S.B. Guernsey, B.E. Gup,
M.K. Hassan, M.A. Hines, J.S. Jahera, Jr., K.N. Johnson, S. Joo, T.
Lutton, M.B. McDonald, W.L. Megginson, S.L. Schwarcz
Taking a realist approach, this insightful book looks at the forces
shaping the evolution of global infrastructure networks. As the
international economy globalises, there is an emergent need for
national systems to adapt and integrate to form a global system.
The authors expose the move to interconnect state infrastructures
as a strategy to support and enhance states' territoriality.
Examined through the lens of economic infrastructure (including
transport, energy and information) this book addresses the forces
of integration and fragmentation in the development of global
networks. The significant impact of globalisation on infrastructure
adaptation is especially highlighted, as well as the key
limitations hindering development. Global Infrastructure Networks
will be of great interest to academics and graduate students of
geography, political economy and public policy. International
policy makers will also find this a compelling read, as it
identifies the benefits and limitations of upcoming developments in
global infrastructure.
The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around
the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk
about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from
killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can
we even hope to accomplish this? Bill Gates believes the answer is
yes, and in this book he lays out clearly and convincingly what the
world should have learned from COVID-19 and what all of us can do
to ward off another disaster like it. Relying on the shared
knowledge of the world's foremost experts and on his own experience
of combating fatal diseases through the Gates Foundation, he first
makes us understand the science of corona diseases. Then he helps
us understand how the nations of the world, working in conjunction
with one another and with the private sector, can not only ward off
another COVID-like catastrophe but also go far to eliminate all
respiratory diseases, including the flu. Here is a clarion call -
strong, comprehensive, and of the gravest importance - from one of
our greatest and most effective thinkers and activists.
The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected global trade. While
factories have stopped production worldwide due to COVID-19, global
trade has also been adversely affected by the pandemic. The
international trade of the world's top exporting countries has
begun to decline. Although it is too early to judge the impact of
the pandemic on world trade, as the virus has not yet been
eradicated, research into the cause-effect relationship between
these two phenomena is necessary to understand the magnitude of its
impact as well as possible solutions to the problem. The
Transformation of Global Trade in a New World provides relevant
theoretical frameworks and the latest findings in the field of
international business and internationalization. It addresses the
asymmetric impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international trade
and the methods of entry into foreign markets together with the
future prospects of global trade in an era of globalization.
Covering topics such as economic crisis, green finance, and labor
force sustainability, this premier reference source is an excellent
resource for business leaders and executives, economists, logistics
professionals, sociologists, students and faculty of higher
education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
In recent years many new international market leaders from the
BRICS countries have emerged in diverse manufacturing and service
industries. How did these new leaders emerge and become key players
in their respective industries? What factors contributed to their
success and enabled them to become market leaders? This new study
answers these important questions with evidence presented from case
studies in the automotive, pharmaceutical and ICT industries of
China, India and Brazil. A common framework of analysis is followed
throughout the volume allowing readers to compare and contrast the
cases examined. This framework brings together factors at the firm,
country and sectoral levels to explain the rise to leadership of
these firms. The book highlights the importance of vibrant
entrepreneurship and demonstrates that being local and having an
ability to learn and build capabilities based on local knowledge
have been major drivers of market success. Yet it also shows how
such firm-level factors have been complemented by the role of both
national and sectoral systems of innovation. This book offers an
integrated framework for the study of innovation and the rise of
market leaders as well as original case studies from important
emerging economies. It will appeal to students, scholars,
researchers and policy-makers interested in economic development
and catch-up, entrepreneurship, innovation management and
evolutionary economics. Contributors include: P. Adams, W. Bai,
L.R. Cavalcante, X. Chen, R.A. Filgueiras de Sousa, B. Guo, S.
Hong, Q. Li, A. Madhavan, F. Malerba, S. Mani, B.C.P. Oliveira de
Araujo
The public space of democracies is constructed in a context that is
marked by the digital transformation of the economy and society.
This construction is carried out primarily through deliberation.
Deliberation informs and guides both individual and collective
action. To shed light on the concept of deliberation, it is
important to consider the rationality of choice; but what type of
rationality is this? References to economic reason are at once
widespread, crucial and controversial. This book therefore deals
with arguments used by individuals based on the notions of
preferential choice and rational behavior, and also criticizes
them. These arguments are examined in the context of the major
themes of public debate that help to construct the contemporary
public space: "populism", social insurance, social responsibility
and environmental issues. Economic Reason and Political Reason
underlines the importance of the pragmatist shift of the 2000s and
revisits, through the lens of this new approach, the great
utilitarian and Rawlsian normative constructs that dominated
normative political economics at the end of the 20th century.
Alternative approaches, based on the concept of deliberative
democracy, are proposed and discussed.
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