Asia from the mid 1980s. Large international movements of mainly unskilled contract labour occurred in response to widening …

Analysis of the financial crisis in East Asia has focussed on the most-affected East Asian economies, namely: Thailand … percent of the GDP of East Asia. Japan, which accounts for over 60 percent of regional GDP, has its own unique tale with … generalizing the story of the crisis economies to East Asia as a whole, and in linking this debate to the earlier Asian Miracle …