The Chinese economy has experienced a sharp rise in recent decades, which is accompanied by strengthening China's position in the global economy. The theme of this thesis is the evaluation of China's economic development. Its effects are illustrated in the examples of involvement of the Chinese economy into the international economic system. The work aims at summarizing the development aspects and opportunities of China and highlights the strong influence of Chinese economic development on the relations in the global economy. In the first chapter there is a space devoted to the theoretical definition of the economic development and its place within the concept of development in the general sense. The position of developing countries in the world economy is summarized as well. Next part of the thesis deals with characteristics of the Chinese economic growth. Key aspect is opening of the Chinese market to the international trade and to foreign direct investments. Considerable space is also devoted to development issues in the social field, which are crucial for increasing the prosperity of the Chinese population. The final part of the thesis points out the economic implications of China's development on relations in the global economy. Emphasis is placed especially on the impact on developing regions. It also investigates the impact of China's membership and its increasing activity in the international organizations and within regional integrations.

The purpose of the graduation thesis "Position of Austria in the world's economy" is to analyse the Austrian economy and its development in the light of basic macroeconomic aggregates in recent years in detail. It also desribes the situation of the country in a global financial crisis and its reaction. The thesis tries to reveal the strongpoints and weakpoints of Austrian economy. Austria is always compared to other countries, to the world and European economy. This thesis is divided into five chapters, which closely deal with following subjects: gross domestic product, labour market, emloyment and education, monetary policy, balance of payments and eventually the financial crisis from Austrian view. The content of this thesis is purely economic. It goes into other subjects only marginally.

This dissertation deals with the nature of the Chinese economic system. The first chapter focuses on the global economy and seeks to define the main economic systems prevailing in it, ie. Anglo-Saxon, Continental and Asian-developmental. Compared to these systems defined as market economies, the dissertation consequently analyses and defines a system of state capitalism and the main elements of it. The following part of the dissertation is focused on the historical Chinese approaches to economic governance of the country and attempts to identify those historical approaches that are still relevant and influential in modern Chinese economy. The third chapter analyses the Chinese economic system and the role of the state in it; it also examines the government's approach to the ownership of state enterprises and the overall extent of state ownership in the Chinese economy. The final chapter examines the different types of state subsidies to domestic, often state, enterprises in China. As an example of the various subsidies a case study on the automotive industry is used.