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Poverty Strategies in Asia
Edited by John Weiss, Haider A. Khan
It is widely recognized that while high and sustained economic growth is critical for poverty reduction, there are other policy interventions that may also be significant in a ‘growth plus’ approach to poverty reduction. This volume brin...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Poverty Targeting in Asia
Edited by John Weiss
Following a comprehensive overview by the editor, this book offers a detailed assessment of the results of directly channelling resources to the poor and extensively discusses the experience of five Asian countries – India, Indonesia, th...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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The Silicon Dragon
Terence Tsai, Bor-Shiuan Cheng
The Silicon Dragon is a systematic study of the growth of high-tech giants in the Greater China Region, depicting the success story of the microelectronics industry in Taiwan. The book examines the government policies that acted as cat...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Deregulation and its Discontents
Edited by M Ramesh, Michael Howlett
Deregulation and its Discontents examines the different ways in which the issues related to deregulation and reregulation have been addressed in Asia. The role of government in business has gone through distinct, if overlapping, cycles:...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Growth, Transition and Globalization in China
Edited by Yanrui Wu
This book addresses a number of important topics and issues associated with China’s economic transition, growth and global integration. The chapters, by a distinguished group of scholars, provide a timely assessment of recent development...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Reform in China and India
Joseph C.H. Chai, Kartik Roy
Recent acceleration of the Indian economic growth rate from 6 to 8 per cent has sparked worldwide speculation that India is about to catch up with China and become another Asian miracle economy. Economic Reform in China and India examine...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Reforming China’s State-owned Enterprises and Banks
Becky Chiu, Mervyn K. Lewis
This book’s starting point is that after two decades of experiments, during which other transition economies have effectively privatised all of their former state enterprises, China is still endeavouring to find a way to reinvent and re-...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The East Asian High-Tech Drive
Edited by Yun-Peng Chu, Hal Hill
East Asia has been an area of high economic growth for several decades. The East Asian High-Tech Drive argues that to maintain the growth momentum, the more advanced East Asian economies need to pay particular attention to policies desig...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Globalisation and the New Terror
Edited by David M. Jones
This rigorously analytical yet readable book examines trends in new terror – understood here to be the capacity of sub-state actors to secure religious or politically motivated objectives by violent means. The contributors argue that whi...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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A New Financial Market Structure for East Asia
Edited by Yung Chul Park, Takatoshi Ito, Yunjong Wang
This book contends that the East Asian financial constitution lacks an appropriate infrastructure, resulting in inefficient allocation of high savings and an over-inflated short-term debt market. It goes on to point out that despite high...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Transformational CEOs
Kimio Kase, Francisco J. Sáez-Martínez, Hernán Riquelme
Transformational CEOs questions why some Japanese firms succeeded in the 1990s despite an economy that failed – regardless of the burst of the ‘bubble’ economy, a number of Japanese companies have maintained or extended their internation...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Employment of Women in Chinese Cultures
Edited by Cherlyn Skromme Granrose
Examining the employment lives of Chinese women living under different government systems at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the contributors to this volume present an overview of factors affecting the employment status of wom...eBook:Find out more$40.00