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‘Wellness is a major economic trend of our time. Anttiroiko highlights key dimensions of wellness-oriented policy and reveals empirical cases that illustrate how local governments can profit from wellness strategies. This book should be read by students, experts and public managers looking to...
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Introduction -- The Foundations: Human Needs and Cultural Background -- Culture in Economic Thinking -- Cultural Background and Economic System -- The Effect of Cultural Background on Incentives, Growth and Distribution and Vice Versa -- Cultural Background and Rationality -- The Cultural...
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How do leaders lead for high performance in Asia, the fastest growing region in the world? What are the new leadership … in Asia. Using a range of methodologies from in-depth interviews, field surveys, and computer simulation, the studies … actionable tools for tackling the leadership challenges in Asia. Further, each chapter includes a ‘Managerial Implications …
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1 Emerging States and Economies in Asia: A Historical and Comparative Perspective (Takashi Shiraishi) -- 2 … History: A Perspective from Monsoon Asia (Kaoru Sugihara) -- 4 Financing Colonial State Building: A Comparative Study of the …
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deteriorating even in East Asia that was once praised for its high economic growth with equity. Increasing pressure for political …
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This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the...
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Transfer and Agricultural Development: A Comparative Study of Asia and Africa(Keijiro Otsuka) -- 3 Southeast Asia and … Early-Modern Southeast Asian Trade(Atsushi Ota) -- 5 Growth of Regional Trade in Modern Southeast Asia: The Rise of …, Industrial Development, and Structural Transformation in Asia and Africa (Yuki Higuchi and Go Shimada) -- 10 Transformation of …
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progression of a range of different industries in Asia, this volume provokes readers to reconsider their current understanding of … Asia; Hajime Sato -- 6. 'Catch-down' Innovation in Developing Countries; Tomoo Marukawa -- 7. Industrial Development for … Natural Resource-Rich Countries in Asia; Yuri Sato -- 8. Resource-Based Industrialization of the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry …
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framework or, in an institutionalized form, security community, in Northeast Asia, the authors in this volume are realistic as … disappointment. The past two years again saw the rising of tensions in Northeast Asia and the masterful way in which even an … and maybe even more than ever the search for a stable security framework for Northeast Asia as a precondition for peaceful …
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The remarkable economic growth of Asia has been the defining feature of the second half of this century. This book … offers a comprehensive overview of the scientific, technological and economic factors which enabled Asia to make such a … predictions for how Asia might face up to the new challenges of the next millennium …
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