This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphe

At head of title: International Institutions and Global Governance Program.

This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countri

Wenkai He shows why England and Japan, facing crises in public finance, developed the tools and institutions of a modern fiscal state, while China, facing simil

China’s emphasis on infrastructure development has received support from African leaders. Its focus on infrastructure development in Africa was endorsed by th