This book provides a much-needed review of Asia’s economic growth and its challenges in the context of post …-war industrialization. In the early 1990s, the World Bank (1993) recognized eight high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs) (Japan, the Asian … is to bring together a comprehensive picture of Asia’s growth, taking into account the adverse consequences. Finally …

-- Kazakhstan: Trade and Oil: Central Asia at Stake -- Kyrgyzstan: A Leadership Role in Central Asia -- Laos: Southeast Asia … Neighbor -- Nepal: A Foothold in South Asia -- North Korea: Aid, Ideology, and Atomic Bombs -- Pakistan: An Enduring Alliance …

confront them. If we are to understand the nature of major risks and uncertainties in the world, we must look squarely at the … economic development has changed the distribution of wealth and power in the world. Yet many of them have middle income status … globalization and to the middle income trap …

1 The Chinese Birdcage -- 2 Western Triumphalism -- 3 China as the World's Factory -- 4 Housing Bubbles across the … 1980s, China quickly became the world’s factory floor...but powerful political leaders envisioned a world in which the … market economy would be trapped within the confines of a planned economy. With China’s admission into the World Trade …

analyses the economic and institutional changes in both Europe and Asia. There is considerable potential for instability, but …

measurement of the economic performance of key countries for which data is available in the World Bank database, including G-10 …Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Financial Globalization and Economic Growth - Literature Review with Comments … Overview -- Chapter 6: Financial liberalization and globalization: theory and facts over the last three decades -- Chapter 7 …

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Four Paradigms -- Chapter 2: Global Political Economy and the Driving Force of Globalization …

This book discusses the economic and geopolitical effects of globalization from historical and institutional …, the overall benefits of globalization far outweigh the costs. Moak argues that leading developed nations should not fear … globalization but, instead, make concerted efforts to promote it in order to keep the cost-benefit balance weighing in favor of …