Asian Development

This ambitious book scrutinizes the role of institutions in economic change, with special reference to Southeast Asia. It suggests that the nature of institutional arrangements such as households, community groups, firms, bureaucracies ...

Over the past four decades, Taiwan has achieved remarkable economic growth. In this important book, a distinguished group of contributors employs a comparative perspective to explore the reasons behind and the lessons to be learned from...

This important new book is the first general overview of the macroeconomic nature and recent history of the Singapore economy.

Japan’s emergence as a modern state in the middle of the nineteenth century was a unique socio-political event. The accompanying economic development – achieved without tariff autonomy and with practically no injection of foreign capita...