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China rising : will the West be able to cope? : the real long-term challenge of the rise of China /
Why do some countries get rich and other countries don't? Does one country's gain mean another country's loss? How do we address the biggest challenge of all: the fact that our environment suffers when we all want to have our share of the cake? These key questions in international eco...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ :
World Scientific,
©2009.
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| Colección: | World Scientific series on 21st century business ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. In perspective: long-term economic growth. Consequences of China's rise
- Asia: finally getting there?
- China's rise in perspective
- Long-term growth; where does it come from?
- Seven pillars of Western wisdom and the soft infrastructure of capitalism
- Democracy and indicators of good governance
- II. The West competing with low-wage China. China's bilateral trade surpluses with the EU and the US: one big difference
- Are jobs and wages in the West at risk?
- What is it: low-wage countries or technology; or both?
- Globalisation: South/North divide in the EU, Left/Right in the US
- Could it be? The EU better placed to face the challenge
- III. The real challenge, the environment: The return of Malthus?
- Environmental consequences of China's rise
- Is this sustainable: new scarcities and the return of inflation
- Is this sustainable: Nine billion people and three billion cars in 2050?
- The environment: what can be done?
- The US: a "responsible stakeholder" again?
- IV. China and the West, Asia and the rest
- V. Then the world changed: crisis. World economy in turnmoil
- Crisis: paradigm change?
- No more scarcities?
- Good governance: What is "good"?
- The environment, international cooperation.