Product Description: China, Japan, and South Korea constitute one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world, but it is a region where formal regional machinery is yet to be realized. The establishment of an information infrastructure, energy community, and institution for financing infrastructure investment for the region are discussed in this volume...read more

Product Description: What brought about a financial crisis in the "miracle" economies of Asia? What went wrong with financial reform in Asia? What can the developing countries of the world learn from the reform experiences in Asia?Financial Liberalization and the Economic Crisis in Asia analyses how financial liberalization was undertaken in eight Asian countries and how it might be linked to the subsequent crises...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The papers in this volume overview the patterns of industrial globalization in a select number of industries: electronics, automobiles, heavy industry, and chemicals and pharmaceuticals. The narrative proceeds with a discussion on how FDI and global production networks--two specific forms of industrial globalization--contribute to industrial upgrading, followed by three case studies detailing the experiences of Ireland, Singapore, and the United Kingdom in inducing FDI inflows...read more

Product Description: Book by Haggard, Stehpan, Lee, Chung H., Haggard, Stephan

Product Description: This study on the transformation of Korea over three decades challenges the view that economic success was simply based upon sensible macroeconomic policies. It argues that the role of the government far surpassed that of simply adopting and implementing these policies...read more

Product Description: Sponsored by the East-West Center in Honolulu, this volume brings together papers by a distinguished group of Korean and Japanese experts to examine the similarities and differences between the development experiences of Japan and Korea...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)