Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

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...

An effective transport infrastructure—and its associated services—are widely regarded as key components of an efficient, equitable, and sustainable society. However, the link between transport provision (especially car ownership) and growing global levels of social exclusion, congestion, pollution, and road deaths is also increasingly recognised. The need to understand how to satisfy a seemingly insatiable appetite for mobility while minimising its...