"This book represents an initial attempt to compare China, Japan, and South Korea, three close geographical and cultural neighbors whose developmental trajectories, though divergent in the past, have been moving more recently toward convergence"--

Understanding regional governance in Asia / Nicholas Thomas -- Evolving regional governance in East Asia: from ASEAN to an East Asian community / Mely Caballero-Anthony -- Japan and regional governance in East Asia: expanding involvement, stagnated influence? / Hidetaka Yoshimatsu -- South Korea...

Introduction -- Part I. Country Implementation of SDGs: Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets -- 1. The impact of Global COVID-19 Crisis on SDGs achievement in ASEAN-countries -- 2. Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets in China and East Asia Imperatives -- 3. Measuring the distance to 2030...

1 Previous Literature, New Findings (Gary Fields and Saumik Paul) -- Part I Conceptual Issues -- 2 Does the Exposure to Routinization Explain the Evolution of the Labor Share of Income? Evidence from Asia (Mitali Das) -- 3 The Labor Share of Income Around the World: Evidence from a Panel Dataset...

Act East policy : Northeast as a bridgehead to ASEAN / Shristi Pukhrem -- Northeast India's critical role in harnessing the three C's : commerce, connectivity and culture in Act East policy / Munmun Majumdar -- Act East policy and emerging economic geography in India's Northeast / Rakhee...