Asian Economics

Connecting Asia

Edited by Michael G. Plummer, Peter J. Morgan, Ganeshan Wignaraja

This book analyses how closer regional connectivity and economic integration between South Asia and Southeast Asia can benefit both regions, with a focus on the role played by infrastructure and public policies in facilitating this proce...

Hardback (2016)

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The Evolution of Central Banking and Monetary Policy in the Asia-Pacific

Akhand Akhtar Hossain

This book of case studies is a contribution to monetary macroeconomics in which country-specific experience and issues in inflation and monetary policy are reviewed and analysed in an historical context. In doing so, the key ideas and vi...

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Central Banking and Monetary Policy in Muslim-Majority Countries

Akhand Akhtar Hossain

‘This book is a major contribution to the fledgling literature on Islamic banking and financial institutions. It offers a comprehensive and novel analysis of the interplay of Islamic and conventional banking based on new evidence pieced ...

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State Capitalism

Edited by Barbara Krug

This book takes as its starting point the question of whether contemporary state capitalism simply uses different tools than earlier or other variants of capitalism, or whether it is an altogether new kind of economic regime. It brings t...

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Social Policies in an Age of Austerity

Edited by John Karl Scholz, Hyungypo Moon, Sang-Hyup Lee

‘South Korea is a recently rich country with dramatic demography – expensive children, very low fertility, long life and rapid population aging. Its policies and institutions must adjust rapidly to these new economic and demographic real...

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Trade in Asia

Edited by Richard Pomfret

This comprehensive collection brings together contributions that have increased our understanding of trade in Asia. Early debates centered on the advantages and disadvantages of joining the global economy as exporters to the high-income ...

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Managing the Middle-Income Transition

Edited by Juhzon Zhuang, Paul Vandenberg, Yiping Huang

The growth model of the People’s Republic of China has been based on high investments, exports, low-cost advantage, and government interventions. This model has successfully transformed the country from a low-income to an upper middle-in...

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Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities

Lily Kong, Ching Chia-ho, Chou Tsu-Lung

‘Cultural elements, particularly in terms of consumption, are less tangible and difficult to study quantitatively or even qualitatively, making research along these lines especially challenging. Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cit...

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Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development

Li Tian

‘The Chinese leadership anticipates that one hundred million people will move from rural areas to China’s cities between 2014 and 2020 – perhaps the greatest migration in human history. Property ownership and use rights, compensation for...

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Handbook on Islam and Economic Life

Edited by M. Kabir Hassan, Mervyn K. Lewis

‘This volume presents carefully selected research by reputed scholars on diverse topics dealing with the economic life of Muslims. The book provides a perspective not only on key aspects of the moral economy but also on the behaviour and...

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The Disintegration of Production

Edited by Mariko Watanabe

‘It is a conventional belief that the Chinese industrial economy is dominated by large state-owned enterprises closely connected with political power. While this perception is correct for some industries, such as petroleum refinery, this...

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