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1. Globalization, Labour Markets and Inequality in India

   By Dipak Mazumdar, Sandip Sarkar

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   India started on a program of reforms, both in its external and internal aspects, sometime in the mid-eighties and going on into the nineties. While the increased exposure to world markets (‘globalization’) and relaxation of domestic controls has undoubtedly given a spurt to the GDP growth rate,...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. State Structure, Policy Formation, and Economic Development in Southeast Asia

   The Political Economy of Thailand and the Philippines

   By Antoinette R. Raquiza

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   Why do some small, developing countries industrialize and others don’t? What factors account for different economic performance among states that are vulnerable to external shocks, crony capitalism, and political instability? This book argues that the answer lies in the structuring of state power,...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
3. Japanese Science

   From the Inside

   By Samuel Coleman

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   This new ethnographic study looks of Japan's scientists looks firsthand at career structures and organizational issues that have hampered the advancement of scientists and scientific research in Japan. It provides analysis of the problem of career mobility in science, the status quo in university...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Rise of Asia

   Trade and Investment in Global Perspective

   Edited by Prema-chandra Athukorala

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   The Rise of Asia examines emerging trends and patterns of foreign trade and investment in Asia with a view to contributing to the policy debate on how development strategies should be adopted in response to challenges to economic globalization. The existing body of knowledge in this subject area...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
5. Institutions for Economic Reform in Asia

   Edited by Philippa Dee

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   In the same way that no economy starts out with the best set of economic policies, no economy starts out with the best institutions to support the policy-making process. Instead, they inherit institutions that reflect their own unique culture and history. The task of structural reform has to be...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
6. Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution

   From Moneylenders to Microfinance

   Edited by Aditya Goenka, David Henley

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   Southeast Asia’s Credit Revolution describes and explains the rise of microfinance – the provision of credit and other financial services for the poor – in Southeast Asia, over the past four decades the most consistently successful region of the developing world. In recent years microfinance has...

   Published September 26th 2011 by Routledge
7. Pakistan - The Political Economy of Growth, Stagnation and the State, 1951-2009

   By Matthew McCartney

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   This book provides a comprehensive reassessment of the development of the economy of Pakistan since independence to the present. It employs a rigorous statistical methodology, which has applicability to other developing economies, to define and measure episodes of growth and stagnation, and to...

   Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
8. Korean Women Managers and Corporate Culture

   Challenging Tradition, Choosing Empowerment, Creating Change

   By Jean R. Renshaw

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   The typical view of Korean women is not as managers. The stereotype is of Korean women serving and pleasing men, or more recently as aggressive shopkeepers and bar-owners. Very little has been written to challenge this misconception. This fascinating book reveals there have always been managers...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
9. Pro-poor Growth and Liberalization in Developing Economies

   The Case of Nepal

   By Sanjaya Acharya

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   By looking at the link between trade liberalization and pro-poor growth in Nepal, this book explores how a developing and transition economy can attain higher and pro-poor growth along with the ongoing trend of globalization. The author develops a social accounting database for Nepal and applies it...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
10. China and the Global Economy in the 21st Century

    Edited by John Saee

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

    As China continues to ride out the global economic crisis while still retaining year on year GDP growth it is increasingly important to understand how this 'new' economic giant, with its communist-capitalist model operates its economic and business environments. This book is designed to...

    Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge