Introduction -- An international comparison of the size-structure of manufacturing firms -- Salient features of the growth pattern in India -- The non-household sector in Indian manufacturing -- The impact of the missing middle on the growth rate -- The missing middle in manufacturing -- Causes...

For several decades, fast-growing East Asia has been the envy of the developing world. Not only has East Asia outperformed all other regions of the world, but it also recovered surprisingly swiftly from the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and the 2008-09 global financial crisis. Nevertheless,...

Background and objectives -- Nepalese trade policy reforms -- Liberalization reforms and poverty : theory and empirics -- The social accounting matrix of Nepal -- Nepal CGE model and calibration : simulations of liberalization and reform policies -- Dynamic Nepal CGE model : higher and pro-poor...

"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...