Taking both a historical and a comparative view, Perkins explores the nature of economic growth in East Asia. He focuses on ten sites in East and Southeast Asia that achieved a substantial degree of economic success: China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand,...

"Nonreciprocal preferential trade arrangements are a defining feature of the relationship between developed and developing countries dating back to the colonial era. In the late 1950s, these arrangements started to take a multilateral form when members of the European Economic Community...

This chapter argues that gender equality and economic development are tightly intertwined, and that gender aspects should be an essential consideration for economic development. The chapter starts by developing a conceptual framework explaining how gender equality and economic development...