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In this innovative book, David Smith ultimately links what happens on the ground in the neighbourhoods where people live to the larger political and economic forces at work, putting these connections in a historical framework and using a case study approach. The societies of the world's underdeveloped countries are now undergoing an urban revolutio

Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Workshop of the World; 2. Giving It All Away; 3. Back from the Brink; 4. A Close-Run Thing Again; 5. A Renaissance of Sorts; 6. Another Fine Mess; 7. No Return to Boom and Bust; 8. The Biggest Crisis; 9. Something Will Turn Up; 10. A Political Postscript; References; Index

The rise of China and India will be the outstanding development of the 21st century, raising fundamental questions about both the structure of the world economy and the balance of global geopolitical power. Will China still be a repressive and undemocratic regime, embracing free market economics but only when it suits? How aggressive a superpower will it be? And what about India, whose huge and growing population and economic prospects appear to guarantee prosperity? David Smith analyses the ways in which the world is tilting rapidly Eastwards, and examines all the implications of the shift i