Political Economy of Global Manufacturing, Business and Finance

Michael Tribe is a Business School Affiliate, Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.George Kararach is a Lead Economist with the African Development Bank Group and Visiting Professor, Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

• The Political Economy of Global Manufacturing, Business and Finance. Chapter 1. Development Economics, and the Political Economy of International Development.-  Chapter 2 – The Future, Development Economics and Global Policy Actions.- Chapter 3. Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth.- Manufacturing Industry and International Development. Chapter 4. The future of manufacturing industry and its implications for developing countries.- Chapter 5. Lights-out Manufacturing and Foreign Direct Investment Decline: Human Resource Based Avenues for Technological Diffusion in Developing Countries.- Chapter 6. National Cars and Product Champions: ways forward for Vietnam’s automotive industry?.- Chapter 7. Manufacturing Development in Bangladesh and Ghana: A Comparative Review of Growth Strategies.- MNCs and International Development. Chapter 8. Transnational Corporations and Globalisation: the development of development?.- Chapter 9. Knowledge Relevance and Emerging Country Multinational’sKnowledge Transfer Advantage.- Chapter 10. Supply Chains and Development: Does Vietnam have to worry about the middle-income trap?.- Finance and International Development. Chapter 11. Financing development through PPPs: What does this mean for inequalities.- Chapter 12. Recent Developments with Personal Remittances to LDCs in the context of Global Crises.- Chapter 13. Shifting Landscapes in Development Finance: The Cautionary Tale of a New Debt Trap.- Chapter 14. Overview and Concluding Remarks.