20 years after the collapse of communism in Central Eastern European countries and 30 years after the start of market-oriented reforms in China, this book provides a framework for understanding the differing emphasis and sequencing of two reforms and explores in-depth these issues in the demise...

1 Political Economy of Japanese and Asian Development -- 2 The Challenge of the Rising Sun -- 3 The Pattern and Process of Asian Economic Development -- 4 Japanese Savings, Growth and Housing -- 5 Japanese Entrepreneurship in the Early Stage of Development -- 6 Japan and East Asia -- 7 US- Japan...

1 A Survey of Econometric Model-Building in East and Southeast Asia -- 1. Econometric Models for Developing Countries -- 2. National Econometric Models -- 2 Hong Kong Model -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Structure of the ERC Model -- 3. The 1983 Version of Estimated Equations -- 4. Simulation of...

This volume, a sequel to Econometric Models of Asian Link, is a unique compilation of up-to-date macro-econometric models of Asian-Pacific countries. It provides models of Japan, the United States, Canada, China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore,...

This book offers the representative macroeconometric models and their applications for the Japanese economy in different development stages throughout the postwar years up to the present. It presents a summary of three types of macroeconometric models and analyses:As many Asian economies are...

The rapid growth of the Japanese economy is well known and needs no elaboration. Table I here gives a summary picture with its international comparison. I have discussed elsewhere (Ichimura, 1979) the main factors accounting for the rapid growth and mentioned ten factors: