role of key international economic institutions. * Considers the impact of the rise of China on the

chapters on alternatives to development, gender and development, China and the emerging economies, and

developments. The book discusses why China was surpassed by Europeans in spite of its early development of

/ Liang-Xin Li, Business School, Hunan International Economics University, Hunan, Changsha, China -- Index.

-- The US energy complex : the price of independence / Timothy C. Lehmann -- China's resource drive into

BRICS (Brazil, India, China and South Africa) but also a number of less studied countries, including

might : the image of China in the Guianas / Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat, Ranu Abhelakh and Edward Troon

Policy 11. Canada and China: Accepting Africa's Rise Joe Ingram 12. Russia's Geostrategic Vision of

low wages for foreign investors, and misallocations of labor in an emerging economy China

; 4 A new conceptualization of Islamic bank rent; PART II Empirical studies; 5 China's non

from Russia, China, South Korea, Japan, Norway and Singapore, it provides an in-depth analysis of

next in line to join them - including China, Canada and Australia. A major intervention by a