The unprecedented, rapid growth of economies in East and Southeast Asia since the 1960s has been both a ray of hope and a taunting mirage to other countries whose development has proceeded fitfully, or hardly at all, over the past 30 years.

Since the 1950s, three main approaches have been suggested for expressing the contribution, widely believed to be large, that education and other forms of human resource development make to economic growth. Did distinctive features of the educational policies of East Asian countries help them...

This essay investigates the relation between legal and economic development in the PRC. It focuses on the period after the introduction of economic reforms in 1978. The political development in the PRC prior to 1978 left little room for legal development outside the realm of politics. In fact,...

Rents from extracting natural resources (minerals and roundwood) were equivalent to a fifth or more of gross domestic savings in at least one year during 1970-92 in nearly all countries in a sample of fourteen from Asia. This was the case even in China and India, which are not usually thought of...