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Innovation, Growth and Competitiveness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Innovation, Growth and Competitiveness

This book investigates dynamic regions in the context of greater global interaction in a world economy increasingly driven by knowledge and innovation. It offers novel empirical evidence on the underlying factors of the growth performance of these spaces. In particular, the following questions are addressed: What role is there for research, education and innovation in the development strategies of the dynamic growth regions? What are the risks and consequences of dynamic growth on patterns of world growth and development, competitiveness, inequalities, and convergence? What development strategies should be promoted at national and international levels to promote a growing and more sustainable world economy? What are the implications of the emerging new competitors for Europe’s competitiveness? Using an innovative, integrated framework of analysis, the contributions in this book combine a wide array of complex theoretical and methodological approaches.

The Great Recession and its Aftermath: Evidence from Micro-Data
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192
The Economics of Firm Productivity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

The Economics of Firm Productivity

Provides empirical evidence on how firm-level data can help governments strike the right policy balance and ultimately achieving higher aggregate productivity.

Asia and Policymaking for the Global Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Asia and Policymaking for the Global Economy

"Examines the more dynamic role Asian nations are playing within the G-20 and in multilateral organizations concerned with governance of global economic and financial affairs, brought about by the rapid development of Asian economies in recent decades"--Provided by publisher.

Intangible Capital and Growth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

Intangible Capital and Growth

For several decades now, advanced economies across the globe have been undergoing a process of rapid transformation towards becoming knowledge economies. It is now widely recognized that intangible capital has been a crucial element in the growth performance of these economies and their firms. In the author's view, "intangible capital" serves as the most appropriate umbrella term for capturing several dimensions of capital that are not tangible in nature but are nevertheless fundamentally important for growth. The term encompasses investments in education (human capital) and in informal (social capital) and formal (rule of law) institutions by the public sector and households, as well as inv...

Managing Capital Flows
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

Managing Capital Flows

Managing Capital Flows provides analyses that can help policymakers develop a framework for managing capital flows that is consistent with prudent macroeconomic and financial sector stability. While capital inflows can provide emerging market economies with invaluable benefits in pursuing economic development and growth, they can also pose serious policy challenges for macroeconomic management and financial sector supervision. The expert contributors cover a wide range of issues related to managing capital flows and analyze the experience of emerging Asian economies in dealing with surges in capital inflows. They also discuss possible policy measures to manage capital flows while remaining c...

World Development Report 2016
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

World Development Report 2016

"This Report aims to inspire and guide the researchers and practitioners who can help advance a new set of development approaches based on a fuller consideration of psychological and social influences." - p. 2

Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 538

Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy

This interdisciplinary volume provides a critical and multi-disciplinary review of current manufacturing processes, practices, and policies, and broadens our understanding of production and innovation in the world economy. Chapters highlight how firms

Structural Reforms and Economic Growth in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 467

Structural Reforms and Economic Growth in Europe

In contrast to the USA, Europe has struggled to return to the growth path it was on prior to the financial crisis of 2007-11. Not only has the recovery been slow, it has also been variable with Europe's core countries recovering more quickly than those on the periphery. It is widely believed that the best way to address this slow recovery is through structural reform programmes whereby changes in government policy, regulatory frameworks, investment incentives and labour markets are used to encourage more efficient markets and higher economic growth. This book is the first to provide a critical assessment of these reforms, with a new theoretical framework, new data and new empirical methodologies. It includes several case studies of countries such as Greece, Portugal and France that introduced significant reforms, revealing that such programmes have very divergent, and not always positive, effects on economic growth, employment and income inequality.

Europe and the Transformation of the Irish Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

Europe and the Transformation of the Irish Economy

Having stagnated for decades in the shadow of the UK, the Irish economy's performance improved after it joined the European Union (EEC) in 1973. This Element shows how the challenge of EU membership gave focus and direction to Irish economic policy. No longer dependent on low value-added agricultural exports to Britain, within the EU Ireland became a hub for multinational corporations in IT and pharmaceutical products. This export success required and facilitated a strengthening of education and social policy infrastructures, and underpinned the achievement of high average living standards. EU membership has also brought challenges, and several severe setbacks have resulted from Irish policy mistakes. But the European flavour of Ireland's structural policies (leavened with exposure to US experience) has helped it navigate the hazards of hyper-globalization with fewer political tensions than seen elsewhere.