Bøker av Shahid Yusuf

Breaks down the various types of cities and evaluates the key factors used to look at cities, such as innovation, green growth, spatial concentration, and smart cities in order to understand how cities work. Why is it that certain cities attract talent? How do some cities become business hubs? Why is it that few cities become increasingly competitive while others remain stagnant?

Exploring the contrasting development options available to Beijing and Shanghai, this book proposes strategies for these cities based on their acquired capabilities, experience of other world cities, the demand in the national market, and likely trends in global trade.

A comparative analysis of the Southeast Asian tiger economies, centered on Malaysia. It draws upon a comprehensive set of techniques and indicators to assess competitive pressures, gauge industrial and technological capabilities and to indicate the directions of industrial change in Southeast Asia could take.

Explores the effects of ownership reform in China on the performance of reformed industrial state-owned enterprises, and proposes privatization as a course of action to truly transform these enterprises into world class firms which compete on the basis of sound strategy, effective organization, and innovation.