Global Economic Growth

Lewis-Guodo Liu received a PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a former adjunct professor at the Department of Economics of Wright State University and is currently Associate Professor at Baruch College of the City University of New York. Dr. Liu is the author of a number of books, among them Internet Resources and Services for International Business: A Global Guide and The Internet and Library and Information Services: Issues, Trends, and Annotated Bibliography. (Greenwood Press, 1996). He is also the series editor of Internet Global Business Guides.Robert Premus is professor of economics at Wright State University. He earned his doctorate in economics and industrial organization from Lehigh University and has authored numerous scholarly papers and reports on the economics of innovation and economic growth. His primary teaching fields are in macroeconomics, economic growth, and monetary economics. Dr. Premus served as a staff economist with the U.S. Congressional Joint Economic Committee, Washington D.C., from 1981-1984. As a staff economist, he authored the Locational Determinants of High-Technology Companies and Regional Economic Development, U.S. Climate for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, U.S. Industrial Policy: Is it the Answer?, and Venture Capital and Innovation. Dr. Premus has frequently served as a speaker and consultant to government agencies and corporations on issues of technology, innovation, and economic growth.

• Preface An Overview of Economic Growth Research, 1950-1998 World Africa Asia Europe Latin America North America Author Index Country Index Subject Index

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