Product Description: This book addresses a number of important topics and issues associated with China’s economic transition, growth and global integration. The chapters, by a distinguished group of scholars, provide a timely assessment of recent developments in the Chinese economy...read more

Product Description: The emergence of a stock market in China only occurred a decade ago and it remains something of an unknown quantity to many observers and traders outside of the country. This book provides an extensive historical and empirical analysis of the Chinese stock-market, the development of which is an integral part of the process of economic modernization that began in China in the late 1970s...read more

Product Description: During the last decades of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the economies of East and South East Asia have grown at a significant rate, resulting in a large proportion of the world's population being relieved from poverty in a relatively short space of time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: China is the world's second largest host for foreign direct investment, outside the US. This book offers insights into the impact of foreign direct investment on China's growth and regional development. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: China's rapid economic growth has attracted much international attention in recent years, partly due to the potential purchasing power of the largest population in the world. This timely book examines general patterns of Chinese household demand for a variety of consumer goods such as food, durables, housing and health care and investigates the impact of economic and social factors on household consumption...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: China's agricultural growth in the past two decades has been called a miracle. An analysis of the sources of this miraculous growth is the focus of the present volume. In addition, this book also investigates the impact of economic reforms on agriculture, the potential of grain production in China, and regional disparities in agricultural production and growth performance...read more

Product Description: This text has a thematical focus on the economics of the East Asia steel industries. Its objective is to investigate the changes in the emerging Asia steel markets such as China, Korea and the Asean countries, with a view to drawing policy implications for global steel production, consumption and trade...read more