The concepts of rent and rent-seeking are central to any discussion of the processes of economic development. Yet conventional models of rent-seeking are unable to explain how it can drive decades of rapid growth in some countries, and at other times be associated with spectacul…
A comprehensive examination of the role of foreign direct investment in East Asia before and after the financial crisis of mid-1997. Developing countries in East Asia recorded remarkable economic growth until the Asian financial crisis erupted in mid-1997. Although several count…
The rise of the Mongol empire transformed world history. Its collapse in the mid-fourteenth century had equally profound consequences. Four themes dominate this study of the late Mongol empire in Northeast Asia during this chaotic era: the need for a regional perspective encompa…
Both international trade and investment by East Asian countries have become significantly regionalized. To support this development further, efforts for regional integration have flourished in the forms of bilateral and regional free trade agreements and the ASEAN+3 and East Asi…
This book is the text of the Singapore Lecture delivered by Junichiro Koizumi on 14 January 2002.
Divided into three parts, this volume covers: industrial restructuring in Southeast Asian economies; restructuring in Asia's newly industrialized economies; and industrial restructuring in the two large Asian economies.
Analyses modern tendencies in the development of regional economic cooperation in East Asia which is considered by regional countries as their response to growing challenges of globalization.
This volume examines different ethnic configurations and conflict avoidance and resolution in five different Southeast Asian countries. Tin Maung Maung Than traces the history and impossibility of the current Myanmar regime's quest to integrate the various ethnic groups in the b…
The evolution of the information and communciations technology (ICT) paradigm is shifting the basis for economic activity from material and labour inputs to knowledge and information inputs, spawning the knowledge-based economy. In East Asia, it is evident that the emergence of …
