organizations across the globe. In Asia, mostly women continue to experience the greatest disadvantages resulting from gender …

A decade and a half since the Philippines embarked on a major program of decentralization, the authors of this book … extends to comparable experiences in East Asia, particularly China and Indonesia. The lessons of this book are relevant not … only for an audience interested in the Philippines - a large developing nation with a population soon to exceed 100 million …

Examines Asia's emerging markets, which survived the financial debacle of 2008-09 with only modest declines in growth …