It is more than three decades since China initiated its economic reform and open-door policies. During that period, China has successfully transformed itself from an inefficient centrally-planned economy to a fast-growing market-orientated economy. To the rest of the world, China has emerged from the condition of a poor and completely isolated nation to become the most powerful engine of global economic growth. China s dynamic economic transition and development, especially its performance in the current world financial crisis, have attracted considerable worldwide interest.

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An effective transport infrastructure--and its associated services--are widely regarded as key components of an efficient, equitable, and sustainable society. But the link between transport provision (especially car ownership) and growing global levels of, for example, social exclusion, congestion, pollution, and road deaths is also increasingly recognized. The need to understand how to satisfy a seemingly insatiable appetite for mobility while minimizing its harmful impacts grows ever more crucial.

The subdiscipline of transport economics has made a substantial contribution towards...

In the memorable words of Ragnar Frisch, econometrics is a unification of the theoretical quantitative and the empirical quantitative approach to economic problems . Beginning to take shape in the 1930s and 1940s, econometrics is now recognized as a vital subdiscipline supported by a vast and still rapidly growing body of literature.

Edited by a leading researcher in the history of econometrics, this new collection from Routledge s Critical Concepts in Economics series brings together in one mini library the best and most influential scholarship on the rise of econometrics....

How China continues its integration with the global economy is one of today's crucial questions, both for China's own growth prospects and for the rest of the world contending with the still numerous developmental challenges of the world's second-largest economy. In the first thirty years after it emerged from central planning, gradual opening to the world economy formed an integral part of China's market-orientated reforms. Understanding the effect of trade and investment integration on China's growth is essential for assessing the sustained development of China.

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In recent decades, human capital has become one of the most popular and influential research programmes in the academy. Its influence is not limited to economics, but has proved to be significant to many other social sciences; indeed, it has infused social and political debates about education and training. Moreover, human capital has become part of the jargon of many non-economists. Now, to help make sense of this critical concept, Routledge announces a new four-volume collection. It provides an extensive overview of the breadth and depth of human-capital research, highlighting not only...

The development experience of India has been a matter of much interest in recent years. India is home to a sixth of the world s population, and about a third of the country is acknowledged to be living below the officially determined poverty line. After more than six decades of planned economic development the levels of achievement in education and health are poor. After three and a half decades of moderate growth following India s Independence in 1947, a period characterised by centralized planning, the pace picked up in the 1980s with some opening up of the economy. It gathered further...

The economic principles that underpin commercial transactions via electronic networks, and the many associated economic issues and controversies that e-commerce generates, are dizzying in their complexity. Now, to help advanced students and researchers make sense of an explosion of scholarship, Routledge announces e-Commerce Economics, a new title in its acclaimed Critical Concepts in Economics series. Edited by David VanHoose, a leading scholar in the field, e-Commerce Economics is a mini library that brings together in four volumes the foundational and the very best cutting-edge...