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Multinational Enterprises and Industrial Transformation
Archanun Kohpaiboon
MNEs have been involved in Thai manufacturing since the early 1960s but despite this significant involvement their role in the industrialization process remains a controversial issue. This book has three main foci: • to evaluate the im... -
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Institutions, Industrial Upgrading, and Economic Performance in Japan
Terutomo Ozawa
Terutomo Ozawa examines Japan’s once celebrated post-war economic success from a new perspective. He applies a ‘flying geese’ model of industrial upgrading in a country that is still catching-up, to explore the rise, fall and rebound of ...eBook:Find out more$58.36
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Decentralization in Asia and Latin America
Edited by Paul Smoke, Eduardo J. Gómez, George E. Peterson
In addition to taking an atypically comparative perspective, the volume highlights the importance of an historical analysis of decentralization and links this to institutional and public policy outcomes. Placing decentralization in this ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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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Growth of New Technology Ventures in China’s Emerging Market
Edited by Haiyang Li
New ventures have played a significant role in the world’s economic and social development. In particular, the development of high technology ventures has been viewed as both a revitalization tool for developed market economies, such as ... -
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Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific
Edited by Iyanatul Islam, Moazzem Hossain
This book illustrates contested perspectives on globalisation represented by the diverse experiences of selected economies within the Asia-Pacific region, namely Australia, China, India and Sri Lanka as case studies.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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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00