Asian Studies

  1. Add to Wish List Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore

    Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore

    Johnny Sung
    Explaining the Economic Success of Singapore explores the transformation of Singapore in the last three decades, going beyond the conventional explanations. The book argues that there was more to the transformation than a simple ‘right p...
    Hardback (June 2006)

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  2. Add to Wish List Economic Reform in China and India

    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...
    Hardback (2006)

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  3. Add to Wish List Globalisation and the New Terror

    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...
    Paperback (2006)

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    Hardback (2004)

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  4. Add to Wish List New East Asian Regionalism

    New East Asian Regionalism

    Edited by Charles Harvie, Fukunari Kimura, Hyun-Hoon Lee
    East Asian countries – currently the most dynamic region of the global economy – have recently pursued trade liberalization through the adoption of various forms of bilateral and plurilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). The book explor...
    Hardback (February 2006)

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  5. Add to Wish List China’s Offshore Investments

    China’s Offshore Investments

    Dexin Yang
    Presenting a thorough analysis of China’s outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the last quarter of a century – something little explored in the literature – this book explores the rationale behind its emergence and development. Chi...
    Hardback (2006)

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  6. Add to Wish List A New Financial Market Structure for East Asia

    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...
    Hardback (2006)

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  7. Add to Wish List Transformational CEOs

    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...
    Hardback (2006)

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  8. Add to Wish List Employment of Women in Chinese Cultures

    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...
    Hardback (2006)

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  9. Add to Wish List Technological Superpower China

    Technological Superpower China

    Jon Sigurdson, Jiang Jiang, Xinxin Kong, Yongzhong Wang, Yuli Tang
    Technological Superpower China explores how China is becoming a technological superpower within the global economy by integrating its national R&D programmes with the innovation systems of national and international corporations. Jon Sig...
    Hardback (2006)

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  10. Add to Wish List Productivity, Competitiveness and Incomes in Asia

    Productivity, Competitiveness and Incomes in Asia

    Hans-Peter Brunner, Peter M. Allen
    The authors of this book link productivity change, trade competitiveness, networks of interaction and cooperation and income growth in developing Asian countries with the complex evolutionary processes of economic development and interna...
    Hardback (December 2005)

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  11. Add to Wish List Liberalization and Growth in Asia

    Liberalization and Growth in Asia

    Mohamed Ariff, Ahmed M. Khalid
    This book reveals significant lessons on how economic prosperity was secured for people over three decades in eight Asian countries. It focusses on the careful way in which these nations designed and implemented pro-growth, liberal econo...
    Paperback (2005)

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    Hardback (2005)

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  12. Add to Wish List Environmental Policy in Japan

    Environmental Policy in Japan

    Edited by Hidefumi Imura, Miranda A. Schreurs
    The book introduces Japan’s environmental history, its key environmental regulations and the forces that have driven Japan to introduce these environmental regulations and programs. It also examines the various formal and informal instit...
    Hardback (2005)

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