Asia : trends, patterns and prospects -- Multinational enterprises and manufacturing for export : emerging patterns and … opportunities for latecomers -- Product fragmentation and trade patterns in east Asia -- Multinational firms in crisis and recovery … direct investment in economic development in light of the experiences of developing countries in Asia …

The economic landscape of Asia has transformed in the past two decades. Regional economies are linked, and have … achieved prosperity. The region must now look to the future. This book explores issues in Asia's long-term development …

The purpose of this paper is to set the issue of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia in two contexts: the changing … (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) and the World Bank in particular to celebrate dynamic growth in Asia, Africa … and Latin America, and to turn increasingly to Asia in general and China in particular as the key to future global growth …

"Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe … industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan … Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than …