Asia’s Deepening Regionalism Brings Shared Prosperity

Promoting Shared Prosperity in South Asia

The global geography of poverty has changed over the last two decades. More than 70 percent of the world’s poor at US$1.25 a day now live not in low-income countries, but in middle-income countries (Kanbur and Sumner 2011). This raises a number of big questions. Is economic growth not sufficient to pull everybody out of poverty? Can middle-income countries or parts thereof suffer from poverty t...

Regionalism and Growth

Eight Transformation Factors for Driving the New Silk Road Towards Sustainability and Shared Prosperity

The name, Silk Road (German: Seidenstraße), was first coined in 1877 by the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen as a term given to the network of trade routes linking China to Central and West Asia, India and the Mediterranean region. More recently, Peter Frankopan, the director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, extensively writes about the ancient Silk Road departing from Eur...

The 4th Globelics International Conference: Innovation Systems for Competitiveness and Shared Prosperity in Developing Countri

Europe’s Continental Regionalism

This paper reviews the multiple forms of European continental regionalism, which takes the overall shape of a complex set of concentric circles, with a substructure of a core group within the EU based on the euro and Schengen areas, and several rings of neighbours outside, including the European Economic Area, the regions of the EU’s neighbourhood policy and finally some pan-European organisati...