A country's culture influences its economic growth, which in turn influences its international position. Confucian heritage appears to be the common factor explaining the rapid economic growth of East Asian countries, including China's meteoric rise in recent years. Ironically, Confucianism has...

Before embarking on analyses of different aspects of economic growth and development of these countries, the authors present a thought-provoking analysis of how institutional factors such as geography, history of religion, culture and political governance have been deeply interwoven with...

Development in theory and in action / Kartik Roy and Cal Clark, Former Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia and Honorary Adjunct Professor at Bond University, Australia, and others -- Emerging development issues in continental Asia and the world : their institutional...