Asian Development

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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Regulatory Worlds

Mark Findlay, Lim Si Wei

‘Mark Findlay and Lim Si Wei explore how economics and governance are socially embedded through deft moves from one part of the globe to another. How can there be regulation that is unresponsive to culturally distinctive East Asian princ...

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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...

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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...

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Adaptation to Climate Change in Asia

Edited by Sushil Vachani, Jawed Usmani

The frequency and scale of damage inflicted by climate-related disasters, including floods, drought, heat waves and hurricanes, has been increasing at an alarming rate. This volume provides a timely and thoughtful discussion of strategie...

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The Dynamics of Economic Growth

Khuong Minh Vu

‘The sixteen countries of developing Asia studied in this book account for half of the world’s population and more than a quarter of its GDP. Their spectacular growth over the last several decades is an unprecedented economic achievement...

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Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in China

Ye Yumin, Richard LeGates

‘YE and LeGates do a fine job in marshaling data and making sense of it through clear text and compelling arguments. A must read for students and researchers of urban China.’ – Chris Webster, University of Hong Kong YE and LeGates’s boo...

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Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Financial Development

Ding Chen

‘In this book Dr Ding Chen has made an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of corporate governance in transitional economies and of corporate governance in China especially. Drawing upon the insights of New Institutio...

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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 book provides a rich mix of perspectives that reflect the wide conceptual, empirical and theoretical interest in clusters and economic development with the focus on East and Southeast Asia. It is a valuable contribution to the clust...

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China’s Economic Development

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

Written by distinguished Chinese academics, this book provides a unique and rare insight into the development of the modern Chinese economy. Three major factors are analyzed indepth: economic decentralization and political centralization...

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