Asian Development

Asia and Global Production Networks

Edited by Benno Ferrarini, David Hummels

This timely book deploys new tools and measures to understand how global production networks change the nature of global economic interdependence, and how that in turn changes our understanding of which policies are appropriate in this n...

Hardback (2014)

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Local Societies and Rural Development

Edited by Shinichi Shigetomi, Ikuko Okamoto

The importance of community-based and participatory approaches to rural development in developing countries has long been emphasized. Rural people, who are economically and politically weak as individuals, can only participate in develop...

Hardback (2014)

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The Dynamics of Economic Growth

Khuong Minh Vu

The advancement of a nation from poverty to prosperity is not a technical process but a great transformation. At the center of this change are two driving forces – emotion, which is referred to as aspiration, anxiety, and sense of respon...

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Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in China

Ye Yumin, Richard LeGates

This detailed study offers a succinct yet comprehensive introduction to China’s crucial policy to coordinate urban and rural development. It describes the theoretical, political, and economic reasons why China allowed a large gap between...

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Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Financial Development

Ding Chen

This important new book attempts to establish a fresh conceptual framework for the study of corporate governance by employing the new institutional economics of contract enforcement. This framework helps to clarify two critical issues in...

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Middle Class China

Edited by Minglu Chen, David S.G. Goodman

A general expectation has developed that China’s middle class will generate not only social but also political change. This expectation often overlooks the reality that there is no single Chinese middle class with a common identity or wi...

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Clusters and Economic Growth in Asia

Edited by Sören Eriksson

This detailed book explores and provides insights into the development and transformation of various clusters, economies and industrial sectors in East and Southeast Asia.

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China’s Economic Development

Lu Ming, Zhao Chen, Yongqin Wang, Yan Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Changyuan Luo

The authors identify three major factors in the growth of the Chinese economy: economic decentralization and political centralization; the urban–rural divide; and relational society. These are explored in depth via analyses of factors in...

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Improving Irrigation in Asia

Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, Ganesh P. Shivakoti

Improving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained performance of irrigation systems. The work identifies key factors that can help explain the performance of intervent...

Paperback (2013)

List price ~~£28.95~~

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Hardback (2011)

List price ~~£85.00~~

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Asia Rising

Edited by Hal Hill, Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista

The centre of global economic activity is shifting rapidly towards Asia, driven by a combination of the economic dynamism of China, India and other middle-income Asian countries, and sluggish growth in the OECD economies. The rapid growt...

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Aging, Economic Growth, and Old-Age Security in Asia

Edited by Donghyun Park, Sang-Hyop Lee, Andrew Mason

First, the expert contributors argue, Asia must find ways to sustain rapid economic growth in the face of less favorable demographics, which implies slower growth of the workforce. Second, they contend, Asia must find ways to deliver aff...

Hardback (2012)

List price ~~£115.00~~

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