Asian Studies

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Banking and Insurance in the New China

Chien-Hsun Chen, Hui-Tzu Shih

Financial reform has been a major concern for China’s transitional economy – especially in the realms of banking and insurance – since accession to the WTO in 2001. This book scrutinizes the development and limitations of these industrie...

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Shrimp Farming and Mangrove Loss in Thailand

Edited by Edward B. Barbier, Suthawan Sathirathai

Through in-depth case studies of local communities in four distinct coastal areas in Southern Thailand, the authors are able to assess objectively the underlying economic causes, and consequences, of mangrove deforestation due to the exp...

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Korea’s New Economic Strategy in the Globalization Era

Edited by O. Y. Kwon, Sung-Hee Jwa, Kyung-Tae Lee

This book presents Korea’s economic strategy to meet the emerging challenges, as it recovers from the 1997 financial crisis and moves on into the globalization and information era. For important policy areas, the authors evaluate existin...

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China’s Telecommunications Market

Ding Lu, Chee K. Wong

The authors examine the singularity of the Chinese experience in building up its extensive telecommunications network in merely a decade, by reviewing China’s national industrial policies and institutional reforms within the industry. Th...

Hardback (January 2004)

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Industrial Relations in China

Bill Taylor, Kai Chang, Qi Li

This enlightening book provides the first systematic introduction to, and exploration of, the emerging system of industrial relations in China, and draws on the authors’ extensive research and direct involvement in the developments takin...

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Elites and Political Power in South Korea

Byong-Man Ahn

In Elites and Political Power in South Korea, Byong-Man Ahn examines problems related to Korea’s political and ruling systems. He examines the Korean government in a global context and explores Korea’s cultural and political matrix. Th...

Hardback (December 2003)

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Sustaining Competitiveness in the New Global Economy

Edited by Ramkishen S. Rajan

While the Singaporean economy has experienced one of the highest rates of growth in the world over the past three decades, questions have recently been raised about the sustainability of the Singapore development model and its continued ...

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Competition Policy and Global Competitiveness in Major Asian Economies

Edited by Tran Van Hoa

In this book, Tran Van Hoa reveals how competition policy and competitiveness are essential for contemporary economic, financial and trade management as well as national and international governance. Containing new in-depth studies of th...

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Return Migration in the Asia Pacific

Edited by Robyn Iredale, Fei Guo, Santi Rozario

Globalisation and social transformation theorists have paid significantly less attention to the movement of people than they have to the movement of capital. This book redresses the balance and provides timely insights into recent deve...

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Competitiveness, FDI and Technological Activity in East Asia

Edited by Sanjaya Lall, Shujiro Urata

This book addresses this imbalance with new country studies on the interaction between foreign direct investment (FDI) and technological activity in building export competitiveness. The book covers China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysi...

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Consequences of Creating a Market Economy

Kathryn Anderson, Richard Pomfret

This book uses household survey data from five Central Asian countries to analyse the important consequences of, and elements that constitute, the creation of a market economy. The countries studied – Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Taj...

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