1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The … sources of growth of US industries -- 4. Total factor productivity growth in Chinese industries, 1981-2000 -- 5. Growth … accounting and productivity analysis by 33 industrial sectors in Korea (1984-2002) -- 6. Industry-wide total factor productivity …

-chandra Athukorala and Hal Hill -- The spatial patterns of production and distribution networks in East Asia / Mitsuyo Ando and Fukunari … Asia-Europe comparison / Michael Landesmann -- Ownership biases and FDI in China / Yanheng Huang -- Trade, FDI and …-chandra Athukorala and Tran Quang Tien -- US and Japanese FDI and trade patterns in Asia / Nobuaki Yamashita -- The rise of China and …

The rapidly increasing importance of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan both in Asia and in the … Asian growth in the latter part of the century. The contributors look at Asia within a global perspective and detailed … comparisons are drawn with Australia and the USA. Contributions from leading experts offer a comprehensive review of the …